Minnesota · Nonprofit
COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FOR HAITIAN ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FOR HAITIAN ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $344,060 to it, the largest being VISTA HERMOSA FOUNDATION ($130,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $670k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $344k
- Net assets
- $528k
What Communities Organizing for Haitian Engagement and Development does
Mission
Cofhed's mission is to partner with marginalized communities in the mountains of southwestern haiti to assist them in discovering, creating, and realizing their own vision of socioeconomic development for lasting transformation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Kore tifi violence prevention programin rural haiti, the acceptance of aggression and violence toward girls results in considerable unspoken distress. The objective of our kore tifi/power to girls violence prevention program is to establish a safe and empowering community environment for girls, enhance their resilience, and equip them with the necessary tools and resources to advocate for their own safety and well-being. Our vision is to foster supportive communities that actively oppose the abuse of girls. We are dedicated to creating environments rich in knowledge, skills, and strategies aimed at transforming social norms that are detrimental to girls. This approach empowers girls to thrive in secure spaces, free from harm.we are working collaboratively with communities by implementing the kore tifi/power to girls! Methodology from depase fronty, a local organization associated with beyond borders in jacmel, haiti (http://repansepouvwa.org/). Over a three-year partnership, their team will provide mentorship, training, and coaching to support girls within our rural partner communities.participatory action researchour citizen engagement participatory research effort is centered…
$447,903 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $447,903.
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 $217k to $419k (+94%).
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: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FOR HAITIAN ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% 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.
Chief executive
Nicaise Avignon
Executive director
Board chair
Harry Saint Preux
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $500 → $66k.
6 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FOR HAITIAN ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT’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
COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FOR HAITIAN ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FOR HAITIAN ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 87% · 2022 64% · 2023 76% — 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
25% of COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FOR HAITIAN ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FOR HAITIAN ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114k 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
COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FOR HAITIAN ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FOR HAITIAN ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Fondation Cofhed Haiti · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FOR HAITIAN ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT?
- COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FOR HAITIAN ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $344,060 to it, the largest being VISTA HERMOSA FOUNDATION ($130,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FOR HAITIAN ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $344,060 in grants to COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FOR HAITIAN ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FOR HAITIAN ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT?
- VISTA HERMOSA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FOR HAITIAN ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT 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 9 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