Minnesota · Nonprofit
PROJECT FINE
PROJECT FINE (Minnesota) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,233,596 to it, the largest being BCBSM Foundation Inc ($425,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Project Fine does
Mission
To create an inclusive community by serving refugees and immigrants and building connections across cultures.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Project Fine provides professional interpretation and translation services for businesses and service providers. Our roster includes 34 interpreters proficient in 20 different languages. During 2025, Project Fine provided over 5,201 hours of language services in 102 different locations.
$119,018 spent$307,968 earned by the program20% of program spendingAdvocacy and information referrals help newcomers as they adjust to life in the united states and become self-sufficient. Project Fine provides linguistically appropriate information and referrals to meet the basic needs of newcomer families. In 2025, Project Fine provided 7,067 hours of service to newcomers in the community.
$46,128 spent$1,128 earned by the program8% of program spendingThe goal of the safety and prevention for youth program is to prevent involvement in unlaw activities and develop positive leadership and collaboration skills among middle and high school youth from refugee and immigrant families. In 2025, 106 youth participated in program activities.
$87,957 spent15% of program spendingWelcoming table: this project is an opportunity for the community to come together to share a meal and build cross-cultural relationships. 5 gatherings were heldin 2025 in winona and st charles, with 505 people participating.girls reaching above and beyond: designed to help girls age 10-18 discover their identity and strengths and create a roadmap to pursue their dreams. In 2025, 51girls participated.college education connection: provides academic support and access to resources for youth as they pursue higher education. In 2025, 4 scholarships wereawarded to program participants.cultural arts & ancestry st charles: this program offers art classes focused on a traditional or folk art, taught by local refugees or immigrants. 2025 classesincluded painting, dance, pinata and feather crowns, and 99 people participated.crime prevention program: this program provides information and education about laws and the criminal justice system for refugees and immigrants. In 2025, 110people participated in program activities, which included sessions on drug use, domestic violence and safety training.early learning program: provides resources, education and support for refugee and immigrant…
$343,688 spent$24,266 earned by the program58% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $596,791.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.0M to $2.6M (+28%).
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: 2020 12% · 2024 17% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of PROJECT FINE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Fatima Said
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $10k → $125k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 PROJECT FINE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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
PROJECT FINE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% 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 PROJECT FINE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 35% · 2019 53% · 2020 41% · 2021 40% · 2022 62% · 2023 44% — 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
38% of PROJECT FINE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
87% of PROJECT FINE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $184k 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.
Against its field
PROJECT FINE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PROJECT FINE
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 PROJECT FINE: 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 PROJECT FINE?
- PROJECT FINE (Minnesota) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,233,596 to it, the largest being BCBSM Foundation Inc ($425,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT FINE have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,233,596 in grants to PROJECT FINE, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT FINE?
- BCBSM Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $425,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT FINE 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 19 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