Minnesota · Nonprofit
CAPI USA
CAPI USA (Minnesota) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,632,862 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,237,100). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.6M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Capi USA does
Mission
CAPI USA's mission is to guide refugees and immigrants in the journey toward self-determination and social equality.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Basic NeedsIn 2024, CAPI's Basic Needs programming served approximately 7,196 unduplicated individuals across 3 program areas. Key outputs and outcomes of this unit's programs included: Food Shelf & Nutrition Services CAPI's client choice food shelf served 1,876 households and 5,628 individuals in 2024, gearing up and transitioning to a Super Shelf model (which means a greater variety of healthy and culturally relevant foods at all times!). Services distributed 316,600 pounds of food, hosted 10 large fresh produce distributions and special distribution events, provided monthly home delivery services to 53 seniors. In addition, CAPI's Urban Garden program continues to support Hmong seniors with 20 community gardening plots that provide additional food resources, cultural preservation, and a community outlet for Hmong seniors during the growing season. Farmers Market CAPI became the new manager of the Brooklyn Center Farmers Market in 2024, seeing approximately 300 individuals each Thursday, from July-September. We connected with the community through the sharing of resources, and bringing the regular farmers and vendors, along with a selection of new ones to the market. CAPI's…
$1,256,651 spentof which $74,676 as grants29% of program spendingEconomic EmpowermentIn 2024, CAPI served 1,146 unduplicated individuals through jobs and training programming, financial and homeownership services, and free tax services. Highlights included: Career Plans 402 MFIP and Career Pathways participants completed a work readiness assessment and developed a Career Plan. Job placement, income gains, & credentials earned 185 individuals secured and maintained employment with an average hourly wage of $21.80; 81 individuals successfully completed training; 53 earned at least one industry-recognized credential in healthcare, property maintenance, and/or green energy and 37 people continue in training to obtain at least one industry recognized credential.Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) Served 252 individuals in 2024. Case Managers provided ongoing support and and advocacy to ensure success. The Counselor also assisted those solely seeking employment, assessing their situation to help them become job-ready. This included resume building, cover letter review, mock interviews, and even physically driving individuals to interviews. Our Education & Career Counselor effectively provided intensive case management services to MFIP…
$1,859,522 spent$26,254 earned by the program43% of program spendingIn 2024, the Refugee Services Department served 231 unduplicated individuals across 5 program areas. Key outputs and outcomes of this unit's programs included:Afghan Housing Stability Program In 2024, 48 families in unstable housing situations were provided holistic case management services to help them decrease living expenses, increase their income, and work toward sustainable housing solutions and financial independence. 100% of these families received rental subsidies for 3 month increments to further help stabilize their living situation, totaling $423,651 in subsidies distributed. A total of 152 individuals have been supported through this program in 2024. Afghan Career Coaching Program Through the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement's Employer Engagement Program, CAPI's Afghan Career Coaching team has been working to build partnerships with employers to further skills development and career advancement opportunities for Afghan employees. In 2024, we secured 4 new employer partners who are committed to providing accessible career advancement pathways, job skills training, and work-based ELL courses. Through partnerships and training, the ACC program served a total of 38…
$790,799 spentof which $53,381 as grants18% of program spendingCivic Engagement and Public PolicyCAPI's Civic Engagement programming unit works on behalf of legislative public policy and systems change priorities most vital to the immigrant, refugee, and BIPOC (Hennepin County) residents it serves. This includes a focus on equitable transit development along the Blue Line, representation at the ballot box, economic and racial justice, youth engagement, and immigrant and refugee advocacy. In 2024, as a program whole, CAPI attended 260 Coalition Meetings across a wide range of issue areas including Immigrant Advocacy, Food Justice, Anti-Displacement, Aging Supports, Environmental Impact, and Economic Mobility. Staff attended 189 Events and hosted 108 Events including both outreach and non-outreach events that reached more than 50,000 people. We, in partnership with our Subgrantees, engaged more than 18,000 people and posted 573 Social Media Posts.Civic Engagement CAPI's Civic Engagement work was expanded and diversified this year. We took on 4 sub-grantee partners including: Karen Organization of Minnesota, SEWA-AIFW, Believe in What's Possible, and One Neighbour. In addition, we hired 2 part-time staff to assist with voter outreach social…
$392,014 spentof which $58,000 as grants9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,298,986.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.2M to $7.9M (+90%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 55% · 2018 33% · 2019 57% · 2020 43% · 2021 43% · 2022 66% · 2023 57% · 2024 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CAPI USA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Mary Niedermeyer
Executive Director
Board chair
Vinothini Ambrose
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $746k → $1.4M.
13 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 CAPI USA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 funders by total. 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
CAPI USA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
69% 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 CAPI USA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 37% · 2019 35% · 2020 16% · 2021 12% · 2022 14% · 2023 12% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of CAPI USA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
68% of CAPI USA's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
CAPI USA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CAPI USA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.2M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CAPI USA
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 CAPI USA: 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 CAPI USA?
- CAPI USA (Minnesota) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,632,862 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,237,100). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAPI USA have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $15,632,862 in grants to CAPI USA, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAPI USA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,237,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAPI USA 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 65 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing