Minnesota · Nonprofit
Minnesota Africans United
Minnesota Africans United (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $291,500 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($142,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $619k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $292k
- Net assets
- $190k
What Minnesota Africans United does
Mission
To create awareness and build individual capacity within the immigrant population related to the resources and opportunities available .
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Agriculture, Trade & Investment Program: Through trade missions to Iowa, North Dakota, Farmfest, and the U.S.Africa Trade & Investment summit, MAU has expanded global connections, supported agr-business enterpreneurs, and increased opportunities for African diaspora firms and Minnesota businesses to collaborate and grow. MAU strengthened economicand cultural tiess between Minnesota and Africa through agricultural partnerships,trademissions, and investment initiatives. The program promotes two-way trade, market access agricultural production, poultry genetics and breeding, and international business partnerships between Africanand U.S. businesses.
$8,126 earned by the programBusiness Development & Workforce Empowerment Program:MAU provided culturally responsive entrepreneurship training, mentorship,networking workforce development, and technical assistance designed to address barriers faced by African immigrants. In 2025 MAU served more than 1,500 individuals, supported the launch of 187 immigrant-owned businesses, generated over $6.5 million in economic activity, and connected 87 entrepreneurs to $315,000 in capital.Through its business incubator model, MAU support startups, restaurants, agri-businesses, youth workforce readiness, digital technology training, and career development pathwaysthat increase income and long-term eceonomic stability.
Housing & Generational Wealth Building Program:MAUs Building Genera- tional Wealth Real Estate Program equipped African Immigrants with financial literacy,credit education, mortgage readiness, homeownership preparation, and real estate investment knowledge.Developed in partnership with real estate professionals, and community banks,the program addresses structuralbarriers to wealth-building and homeowner- ship. As a result, 46 participants purchased homes, 23 launched real estate ventures, and 31 secured careers in real estate, helping families build long-term financial security, generational wealth, and stronger community stability.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2024 to 2025, from $93k to $215k (+130%).
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: 2022 35% · 2023 60% · 2024 74% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Minnesota Africans United’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Basil T Ajuo
CEO
Board chair
Nelima S Munene
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $49k → $50k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 Minnesota Africans United’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
Minnesota Africans United leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 Minnesota Africans United.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 41% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
61% of Minnesota Africans United'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 $115k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $177k 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
Minnesota Africans United runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,448 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,448 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Minnesota Africans United
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
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Minnesota Africans United: 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 Minnesota Africans United?
- Minnesota Africans United (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $291,500 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($142,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Minnesota Africans United have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $291,500 in grants to Minnesota Africans United, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Minnesota Africans United?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $142,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Minnesota Africans United 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 5 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