Minnesota · Nonprofit
BASIC INSTITUTE FOR ZONAL AFRI ADVANCEMENT
BASIC INSTITUTE FOR ZONAL AFRI ADVANCEMENT (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $178,371 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($78,925). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $403k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $178k
- Net assets
- $277k
What Basic Institute for Zonal Afri Advancement does
Mission
End child trafficking once and for all by providing education and job placement assistance to at-risk african youth. Our vision is to from a strong and impactful coalition of religious organizations,
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational scholarships during the 2025 calendar year bizza supported
$251,384 spentof which $227,380 as grants83% of program spendingVocational/technical school in connection with the organizations goal
$51,410 spentof which $46,500 as grants17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $302,794.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $47k to $142k (+204%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
97% of BASIC INSTITUTE FOR ZONAL AFRI ADVANCEMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Trevor Lambert
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $8k → $37k.
5 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BASIC INSTITUTE FOR ZONAL AFRI ADVANCEMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BASIC INSTITUTE FOR ZONAL AFRI ADVANCEMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BASIC INSTITUTE FOR ZONAL AFRI ADVANCEMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 51% · 2020 60% · 2021 52% · 2022 57% · 2023 41% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
97% of BASIC INSTITUTE FOR ZONAL AFRI ADVANCEMENT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $172k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BASIC INSTITUTE FOR ZONAL AFRI ADVANCEMENT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BASIC INSTITUTE FOR ZONAL AFRI ADVANCEMENT
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BASIC INSTITUTE FOR ZONAL AFRI ADVANCEMENT: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BASIC INSTITUTE FOR ZONAL AFRI ADVANCEMENT?
- BASIC INSTITUTE FOR ZONAL AFRI ADVANCEMENT (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $178,371 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($78,925). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BASIC INSTITUTE FOR ZONAL AFRI ADVANCEMENT have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $178,371 in grants to BASIC INSTITUTE FOR ZONAL AFRI ADVANCEMENT, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BASIC INSTITUTE FOR ZONAL AFRI ADVANCEMENT?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $78,925 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BASIC INSTITUTE FOR ZONAL AFRI ADVANCEMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing