Minnesota · Nonprofit
LOS OLIVOS CIS
LOS OLIVOS CIS (Minnesota) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $901,174 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($330,656). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $952k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $901k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Los Olivos Cis does
Mission
Promoting solidarity and cultural exchange across borders between the people of El Salvador and others in the search for development and dignity. The mission of Los Olivos CIS is carried out primarily through program grants to the Center for Interchange and Solidarity (CIS) in El Salvador.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Youth Leadership Development and Scholarship Programs: The CIS worked with twenty-five local Salvadoran scholarship committees and twenty-four sister organizations as well as individual donors to raise funds for 226 youth to go to the university, 245 to high school and 82 students in k - 9th grade in 2024. Of those students 28 graduated with university degrees and 77 from high school. Thirty-four university students benefitted from CIS housing in San Salvador, San Miguel, and San Rafael Cedros, who live too far away to commute and do not have relatives in major cities. *** CIS high school and university scholarship students provided tutoring support to younger students in technology, English, math, and reading to be able to maintain their studies. Many parents cannot read or write or have low levels of formal education to be able to aid in the learning process of their children. Students conducted environmental projects planting trees, training on composting and recycling, coordinated community trash pickup campaigns, and organized talks and made signs to build awareness about respect for the environment. Students organized trainings and do follow up on clean water filter training…
$445,102 spentof which $399,608 as grants52% of program spendingCivil rights, democratic development, emergency aid, and advocacy programs: Los Olivos CIS continued to support 25 organizations in the CIS Community Network for Cooperation and Solidarity. CIS work is carried out by 19 permanent staff and 26 long term volunteers (3 months or more). *** CIS Clean Water and the Environment program. CIS trained and distributed water filters to 242 families, benefitting 1,116 individuals. CIS installed 2 Clean Water for the World Purification Units benefiting 252 individuals. CIS carried out organizational development work with eight local water committees, forty trainings were organized on health, hygiene, environment, and filter care and distribution, and maintenance and follow up was done with 36 Clean Water for the World industrial purification units. *** The CIS continued its art and mental health program in Paso Puente, Distrito Italia, Residencial Libertad, and Romero Community in Tonacatepeque as part of an integral approach to overcoming poverty and violence, while building community. The program gives youth an alternative to migration and joining gangs to survive and they are invited to dream ways they can contribute to building a better…
$293,080 spentof which $168,552 as grants$98,723 earned by the program34% of program spendingEducational delegations and language and cultural exchange: CIS hosted five delegations to El Salvador with a total of 57 participants, which included sister relationships which are the base of the scholarship and leadership development program. Additionally, CIS representatives participated in six visits with 15 participants to the United States - scholarship students visited St. Elizabeth, Holy Spirit and other parishes in Kansas City and Dayton Ohio, participated in the International Columbian Festival in Washington D.C. with Salvadoran crafts coordinator, and the human rights delegation to Washington D.C. and New York. *** CIS imparted Spanish classes to 135 students- 59 in person, 13 private classes, 63 online from 14 different countries. *** CIS trained eleven volunteer English teachers online and in person to teach 101 English as a Second language students and covering four ten-week cycles. CIS provided partial scholarships to 15 students including three women freed from prison, two CIS staff, and 10 CIS university scholarship recipients.
$101,166 spentof which $20,726 as grants$81,603 earned by the program12% of program spendingSmall business and women's development programs: CIS supported 17 women's businesses and artisan workshops in 2024: Las Delicias Bakery, Sausage to Go, El Espino Sausages, Divine Bakery, Holy Spirit Candies, Colorada Seamstresses, indigo dye and embroidered clothing, wooden crafts, organic coffee, and others. CIS provided one scholarship to a woman in the sausage businesses to study a technical degree in management of meat and dairy products and the son of an artisan that produces accessories with recycled materials in the Las Tinecas workshop. *** CIS crafts coordinator and women's business coordinator in conjunction with the Design and Communications Department of the Jesuit University and the Monica Herrera Business School facilitated a second year of training with a course in design principles. *** CIS supported 12 artisan workshops which generate income for 50 families by selling their products in our store including purses and accessories, coconut jewelry, organic coffee, painted wooden products, cards and jewelry made from recycled materials, indigo dyed clothing, embroidery, and other items.
$21,157 spentof which $10,401 as grants$4,099 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $860,505.
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 $971k to $1.1M (+18%).
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.
79% of LOS OLIVOS CIS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Susan Mull
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $135k → $116k.
6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 LOS OLIVOS CIS’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
LOS OLIVOS CIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 LOS OLIVOS CIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 83% · 2019 76% · 2020 49% · 2021 67% · 2022 65% · 2023 43% — 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
50% of LOS OLIVOS CIS'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
76% of LOS OLIVOS CIS'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 $217k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $684k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
LOS OLIVOS CIS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LOS OLIVOS CIS
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 LOS OLIVOS CIS: 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 LOS OLIVOS CIS?
- LOS OLIVOS CIS (Minnesota) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $901,174 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($330,656). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LOS OLIVOS CIS have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $901,174 in grants to LOS OLIVOS CIS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOS OLIVOS CIS?
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $330,656 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOS OLIVOS CIS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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