Minnesota · Nonprofit
HISPANIC ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RESEARCH
HISPANIC ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RESEARCH (Minnesota) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,185,019 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($482,500). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $993k
What Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment Through Research does
Mission
To provide the minnesota latino community with the ability to create and control information about itself in order to affect institutional decisions and public policy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Outreach: hacer partnered with a researcher from metro state university to develop a program that educates families on the importance of communication between parents and teenagers, as a foundation for preventing and resolving family challenges. We continue to lead an alliance of latino-serving organizations to promote legislation aimed at improving living conditions for minnesota's latino communities. Hacer also informs families about tax season resources available through the state and actively participates in community events in southern minnesota, ensuring that diverse communities have access to information and support.
$637,558 spentof which $20,000 as grants$318,689 earned by the program57% of program spendingResearch: different research projects along the year, such as the acceptance of itin for renters and banks, in support of those who do not count without a ssn; opioids project, focused on learning about how latino families deal with the presence of opioids consumption among children and youth, and how that can be changed with data collected on understandings about the issue; our project familias fuertes, in collaboration with metro state university, focused on understanding the barriers and stressors that affect the communication among latino families members, particularly focusing on parents and children, in themes related acculturation and health care (teen pregnancy prevention, drugs abuse, etc.) hacer partnered with better business bureau in learning about the effect that scams have among latinos.
$329,562 spent29% of program spendingEvaluation: hacer collaborated with multiple organizations to strengthen evaluation efforts across minnesota. We partnered with small organizations in southern minnesota to assess their training programs for community healthcare workers and other informational initiatives. Our team also supported urban ventures by evaluating their programs for mothers and provided technical assistance to minnesota department of health grantees under the ehdi, hyn, and phun grant programs. Hacer developed systems and organized gatherings to help grantees meet mdh's evaluation requirements, while also supporting evaluation work for copal and saint mary's clinics.
$160,402 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,127,522.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.4M to $630k (−56%).
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: 2020 71% · 2021 56% · 2022 42% · 2023 56% · 2024 50% · 2025 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of HISPANIC ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RESEARCH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% 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
Rodolfo Gutierrez
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $41k → $219k.
10 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 HISPANIC ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RESEARCH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
HISPANIC ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RESEARCH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
47% 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 HISPANIC ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RESEARCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 49% · 2019 32% · 2020 21% · 2021 28% · 2022 44% · 2023 68% — growing more concentrated.
“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
20% of HISPANIC ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RESEARCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
84% of HISPANIC ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RESEARCH's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $486k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
HISPANIC ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RESEARCH has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HISPANIC ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RESEARCH
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
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HISPANIC ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RESEARCH?
- HISPANIC ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RESEARCH (Minnesota) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,185,019 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($482,500). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HISPANIC ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RESEARCH have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,185,019 in grants to HISPANIC ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RESEARCH, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISPANIC ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RESEARCH?
- THE BUSH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $482,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISPANIC ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RESEARCH 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 31 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