Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION OF CHARTER SCHOOL AUTHORIZERS
MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION OF CHARTER SCHOOL AUTHORIZERS (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,000 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $67k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $115k
- Net assets
- $47k
What Minnesota Association of Charter School Authorizers does
Mission
Macsa's mission is to increase the quality of charter school authorizating in the state of minnesota by developing and identifying practices and policies that ensure effective oversight and evaluation of minnesota charter schools. The purpose of the Minnesota Association of Charter School Authorizers is to advance excellence and accountability in the public charter school sector, ultimately helping ensure all students have access to a variety of strong pre-k-12 educational options.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Macsa provides learning opportunities to advance charter school authorizing practices as well as promising school practices. Macsa also engages with sector partners to educate the public about charter schools and authorizers and advocate for educational equity.
$43,485 spentof which $130 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $43,485.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $94k to $42k (−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.
100% of MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION OF CHARTER SCHOOL AUTHORIZERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sawsan Natsheh
Executive director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $75k → $20k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 ASSOCIATION OF CHARTER SCHOOL AUTHORIZERS’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 ASSOCIATION OF CHARTER SCHOOL AUTHORIZERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ASSOCIATION OF CHARTER SCHOOL AUTHORIZERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
65% of MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION OF CHARTER SCHOOL AUTHORIZERS'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 $40k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 ASSOCIATION OF CHARTER SCHOOL AUTHORIZERS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION OF CHARTER SCHOOL AUTHORIZERS
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.
Public support
79%
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 ASSOCIATION OF CHARTER SCHOOL AUTHORIZERS: 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 ASSOCIATION OF CHARTER SCHOOL AUTHORIZERS?
- MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION OF CHARTER SCHOOL AUTHORIZERS (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,000 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION OF CHARTER SCHOOL AUTHORIZERS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $115,000 in grants to MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION OF CHARTER SCHOOL AUTHORIZERS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION OF CHARTER SCHOOL AUTHORIZERS?
- THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION OF CHARTER SCHOOL AUTHORIZERS 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 2 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