Minnesota · Nonprofit
NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE
NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE (Minnesota) receives grants from 175 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,602,061 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($12,935,750). 109 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 175
- Grants received
- $58M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Northside Achievement Zone does
Mission
The naz mission is to end multi-generational poverty in north minneapolis by building a culture of achievement where all low-income children of color have the support they need to graduate high school and succeed in college, career, and life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The naz mission is to end multi-generational poverty in north minneapolis by building a culture of achievement where all low-income children of color have the support they need to graduate high school and succeed in college, career, and life.naz accomplishes this through partnerships with parents, scholars, community organizations, and schools. Founded in 2008, naz is a collaborative of more than 30 non-profit and educational institutions that have aligned programs and systems to encircle northside children and parents with all-encompassing support. Naz and it's partners are committed to building measurable and lasting change in a community with many strengths and assets, that has been plagued by racial discrimination and the resulting disparities in education, jobs, home ownership, and wealth creation. In fiscal year 2025, 1,222 families and 2,427 children were enrolled in naz.through naz, multiple generations of northsiders are leading themselves out of poverty. This is done through:-scholars focusing on building their own academic goals, and supported both in and outside of school-parents advocating for their children and actively leading them on a path to college and career,…
$13,581,413 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,581,413.
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 $15M to $25M (+61%).
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: 2017 28% · 2018 15% · 2019 23% · 2020 13% · 2021 7% · 2022 18% · 2023 10% · 2024 10% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
109% of NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Sondra Samuels
President & CEO
Board chair
Makeda Zulu
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 73 funders, grant income rose $5.6M → $15M.
23 of 175 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.3M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Minneapolis Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE raised.
From the IRS filings of NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 175 funders by total. 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
NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
54% 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 NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 84% · 2019 25% · 2020 29% · 2021 32% · 2022 36% · 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
47% of NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
66% of NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE's funding base is broadening — from 22 funders to 73 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 165 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Naz Real Estate Holding Company · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE?
- NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE (Minnesota) receives grants from 175 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,602,061 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($12,935,750). 109 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE have?
- IRS filings report 175 organizations giving $57,602,061 in grants to NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE, 109 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,935,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 175 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing