Minnesota · Nonprofit
MN ZEJ ZOG
MN ZEJ ZOG (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,068,525 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($525,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $808k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $233k
What Mn Zej Zog does
Mission
Empowering the hmong community by nurturing the hmong language, healing through the arts and wellness, and becoming more powerful through education across the generations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community: the hmong rpa standardization and unification project started in 2024 and is gearing up for community engagement in 2025. A lot of backup work was accomplished in 2024 with establishing a community advisory council to guide the work. The hmong rpa project aims to acknowledge and bring in the voices and experiences of diverse hmong minnesotans, including multiple dialects, to improve, develop, and adopt a unified and standardized latin alphabet form of the hmong rpa writing system.
$343,016 spent38% of program spendingYouth: project rise is funded by a grant from the office of justice prevention. Project rise reflects mzz's work which is grounded in community-connectedness, personal and intergenerational healing, and nurturing spaces of belonging and being known for hmong youth within spaces intent on hmong language and culture reclamation and sustainability, combined with positive identity formation for meaningful futures. Climb program - we currently have three climb programs fully implemented and in motion, and are finalizing two additional sites to bring the total to five sites. Although we ran into a few minor hiccups along the way such as discussions with potential school partners which did not work out the way we thought it would, the relationships we have with educators in the twin cities area, and the reputation that climb has (as several educators have also experienced the training as well) made it an easy pivot from one school to another. Currently, we are on track with program implementation, number of sites (5) and number of students served. We are eager for hmong college prep and park center high school to join as potential partners as both of these schools have a high southeast…
$288,158 spent$35,582 earned by the program32% of program spendingEducation: mentorship seeks to bring out the best out of each teacher so they can show up authentically. Activity 1: connect to reconnect the love, intention, and deep purpose for being an educator. Teachers will be empowered to be open-minded about applying student centered learning tools, knowledge, strategies, and skills in their educational practice so students can have a meaningful education. From may 2024-december 2024 we were able to accomplish activity 1 at 100% success. The mentorship kick-off was amazing and many felt appreciated being able to connect and find supportive value in each other for the school year from the program. We had about a 97% attendance rate for the kick-off because some individuals had prior commitments, or their application was still in process for approval. At the kick-off we had a total of five ethnic groups that are a part of this program, and they were very excited to work cross-culturally and learn from each other. Much of the feedback that we received was positive and many teachers felt seen, heard, respected, and supported. Activity 2: action focused opportunities examining equity in the school system. Teachers will have insight into areas…
$189,536 spent21% of program spendingCulture:to keep the legacy of the hmong culture thriving, Mn Zej Zog has partnered with multiple grantors to foster great innovative projects using arts to heal hmong youths such as in the legacy cultural heritage grant. Furthermore, mzz also partnered with the asian club at patrick henry high school to take their hmong play into the mainstream stage to storytell and share the beauty and struggle of the language and culture.
$78,318 spent$4,219 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $899,028.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $237k to $589k (+148%).
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: 2023 58% · 2024 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Pang Yang
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $30k → $240k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 MN ZEJ ZOG’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
MN ZEJ ZOG leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 MN ZEJ ZOG.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 71% · 2023 73% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MN ZEJ ZOG's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $345k 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.
Organizations like MN ZEJ ZOG
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
81% 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 MN ZEJ ZOG: 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 MN ZEJ ZOG?
- MN ZEJ ZOG (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,068,525 to it, the largest being THE BUSH FOUNDATION ($525,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MN ZEJ ZOG have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,068,525 in grants to MN ZEJ ZOG, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MN ZEJ ZOG?
- THE BUSH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $525,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MN ZEJ ZOG 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 7 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