Minnesota · Nonprofit
ESHARA
ESHARA (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $453,000 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST AREA FOUNDATION ($250,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $236k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $453k
- Net assets
- $158k
What Eshara does
Mission
Eshara Organization is a social development organization established in 2021 with a mission to provide comprehensive advocacy and representation for New American immigrants, refugees, and people from diverse communities in Minnesota and North Dakota. The organizations name, Eshara is an acronym for Ethnic Self-Help Alliance for Refugees Assistance
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
ESHARAs mission is to provide comprehensive advocacy and representation for New American immigrants, refugees, and people from diverse communities so they can get integrated into Minnesota and North Dakota very easily. To connect them to the existing resources in the community such jobs, Healthcare resources, social services and leadership opportunities with the needed skills and capacities made available by our immigrants and refugees communities, families, and youth economic developmental training and support programs.
Workforce development and refugee support, Such as job coaching, housing, healthcare, andemployment navigation
$90,000 spent58% of program spendingYouth programs, cultural events, translation, and outreach services
$65,000 spent42% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $155,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $13k to $202k (+1507%).
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.
100% of ESHARA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Ahmed Makaraan
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 ESHARA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 11 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
ESHARA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% 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 ESHARA.
“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
84% of ESHARA's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ESHARA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,648 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ESHARA
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ESHARA: 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 ESHARA?
- ESHARA (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $453,000 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST AREA FOUNDATION ($250,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ESHARA have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $453,000 in grants to ESHARA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ESHARA?
- NORTHWEST AREA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ESHARA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 11 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