Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA DAWAH INSTITUTE
MINNESOTA DAWAH INSTITUTE (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,564 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($14,400). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Minnesota Dawah Institute does
Mission
To conduct religious and cultural works helping new immigrants adapt to a new enviorment bridging communities of different ethnic and racial backgrounds.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, the Minnesota Dawah Institute (mdi) continued to serve as an important center for the muslim and immigrant community in st. Paul and the twin cities. The mosque and community center stayed busy every week with prayers, classes, and community events. The building was also improved to better serve the people who visit including a new soccer gym for youth development. The full-time islamic school provided affordable and good religious education. Mdi also expanded its business incubator. This program gives small business owners a place to start their business with a fixed and affordable rent. It also offers simple support like guidance and chances to meet other business owners.
$698,876 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $698,876.
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 $1.2M to $3.9M (+228%).
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.
73% of MINNESOTA DAWAH INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Hassan A Mohamud
Board chair and president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $918.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 DAWAH INSTITUTE’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 DAWAH INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 DAWAH INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 67% · 2021 67% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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
64% of MINNESOTA DAWAH INSTITUTE'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 $14k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 DAWAH INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,394 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MINNESOTA DAWAH INSTITUTE
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MINNESOTA DAWAH INSTITUTE: 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 DAWAH INSTITUTE?
- MINNESOTA DAWAH INSTITUTE (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,564 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($14,400). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA DAWAH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $39,564 in grants to MINNESOTA DAWAH INSTITUTE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA DAWAH INSTITUTE?
- JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $14,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA DAWAH INSTITUTE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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