Minnesota · Nonprofit
SIERRA LEONE COMMUNITY IN MINNESOTA
SIERRA LEONE COMMUNITY IN MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,050 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($55,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $409k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $82k
- Net assets
- $156k
What Sierra Leone Community in Minnesota does
Mission
Community Health, Youth Leadership Training, Community Food Security, Education Support
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
We started the Career Training programs for long-term care careers and for small business creation in 2024.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Youth Leadership Training; Commercial Tobacco Prevention and Cessation,Leadership Training Activities
$200,478 spent$200,478 earned by the program46% of program spendingCareer Trainings:Long-Term Care training,Small Business Entrepreneurial training.
$156,000 spent$156,000 earned by the program36% of program spendingEducation: Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) program, K-12 Schools supplies, Scholarships for College-bound students, Tuition and Supplies for students in Sierra Leone
$48,000 spent$48,000 earned by the program11% of program spendingSeniors and Families Program: Food and Personal Supplies, and Preventive Health Care Screening and Counseling
$32,834 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $437,312.
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 2019 to 2020, from $24k to $85k (+252%).
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: 2022 78% · 2023 84% · 2024 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SIERRA LEONE COMMUNITY IN MINNESOTA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Karifa Jalloh
Executive director
Board chair
Jonathan Rose
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $50k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 SIERRA LEONE COMMUNITY IN MINNESOTA’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
SIERRA LEONE COMMUNITY IN MINNESOTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% 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 SIERRA LEONE COMMUNITY IN MINNESOTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
68% of SIERRA LEONE COMMUNITY IN MINNESOTA'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 $26k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SIERRA LEONE COMMUNITY IN MINNESOTA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SIERRA LEONE COMMUNITY IN MINNESOTA
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 SIERRA LEONE COMMUNITY IN MINNESOTA?
- SIERRA LEONE COMMUNITY IN MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,050 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($55,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SIERRA LEONE COMMUNITY IN MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $82,050 in grants to SIERRA LEONE COMMUNITY IN MINNESOTA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SIERRA LEONE COMMUNITY IN MINNESOTA?
- THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $55,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SIERRA LEONE COMMUNITY IN MINNESOTA 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 2017–2024), 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