Delaware · Nonprofit
ODAA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC FKA SAVE OROMIA FOUNDATION
ODAA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC FKA SAVE OROMIA FOUNDATION (Delaware) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being THE NEW COMMONWEALTH RACIAL EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND INC ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $65k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Odaa Community Foundation Inc Fka Save Oromia Foundation does
Mission
The odaa community foundation is dedicated to catalyzing personal and community health transformation. Our current mission centers on culturally resonant health and wellness initiatives in diverse communities. We specialize in delivering community-driven health solutions, leveraging expertise from fields such as clinical medicine, behavioral health, public health, holistic wellness, and social entrepreneurship. Our approach to youth mental health integrates peer and clinical support, encompassing group coaching and specialized care, and is exemplified by our near-peer model. This model, backed by rigorous research, features structured conversations led by near peer lay-providers, and is backed by trauma-responsive, data-driven methodologies. Our approach to community engagement and education leverages strategic partnerships with grassroots organization to design culturally-informed, youth-supported community health engagement and education spaces.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The first major accomplishment is the receipt of the city of boston's successlink grant for the community health and wellness corps, amounting to $98,000, which is awaiting disbursement. This innovative program aims to engage, employ, and empower boston's youth by providing them with meaningful work experiences and learning opportunities focused on community service, healthcare, technology, and the arts. Through training in personal and professional development, and extensive community engagement in health education programs, the initiative seeks to address the mental health crisis among youth. It emphasizes a holistic health model, incorporating mental health, heart health, and maternal health into its curriculum, and partners with local organizations to deliver impactful programs.
$0 spentThe second notable accomplishment is the launch of the mental health ambassadors program at jeremiah e. Burke high school. This initiative has trained a group of 10 high schoolers as odaa group leaders, equipping them to disseminate their training in mental wellness through a variety of content forms to their peers. This program is exemplary of the foundation's commitment to transforming community mental health through youth leadership and peer support.
$0 spentAdditionally, the foundation is also developing a program addressing trauma among returning citizens in jamaica plain and hyde park neighborhoods. This comprehensive initiative integrates a trauma-responsive mental health and wellness curriculum, workforce development opportunities, community health worker training, and yoga and mindfulness sessions, aiming to facilitate healing and reintegration for individuals exiting the correctional system.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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 ODAA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC FKA SAVE OROMIA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Tsion Hermes
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ODAA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC FKA SAVE OROMIA FOUNDATION’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
ODAA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC FKA SAVE OROMIA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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 ODAA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC FKA SAVE OROMIA FOUNDATION.
“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
ODAA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC FKA SAVE OROMIA FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
ODAA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC FKA SAVE OROMIA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,933 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,933 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like ODAA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC FKA SAVE OROMIA FOUNDATION
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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ODAA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC FKA SAVE OROMIA FOUNDATION?
- ODAA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC FKA SAVE OROMIA FOUNDATION (Delaware) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being THE NEW COMMONWEALTH RACIAL EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND INC ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ODAA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC FKA SAVE OROMIA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $30,000 in grants to ODAA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC FKA SAVE OROMIA FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ODAA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC FKA SAVE OROMIA FOUNDATION?
- THE NEW COMMONWEALTH RACIAL EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ODAA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC FKA SAVE OROMIA FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 2023–2024), 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