Minnesota · Nonprofit
Sojourner Project Inc
Sojourner Project Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,062,486 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($160,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Sojourner Project Inc does
Mission
Sojourner provides emergency shelter for women and children; legal advocacy and support to empower those victimized by domestic violence; and information and education to raise community awareness and promote violence prevention.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Shelter offers emergency housing and supportive services for up to 20 women and children experiencing unsafe or violent living situations. A 24-hour Crisis Line, staffed by trained advocates and volunteers, remains available around the clock to provide immediate support, safety planning, referrals, and resources. In 2025, the Crisis Line responded to more than 2,500 calls from individuals seeking assistance and guidance. During the year, the emergency shelter provided safe housing for 98 women and 147 children. Shelter Advocates use a trauma-informed approach that honors each clients unique experiences and individual path toward safety and healing. Residents are provided with basic necessities as well as access to supportive programming such as life skills education, therapeutic and peer support groups, housing referrals, employment resources, and connections to medical care. Continued on Schedule O.
$836,286 spent66% of program spendingThe Community Legal Advocacy Department, which includes Intervention and Legal Advocacy services, provides critical support and advocacy to individuals and families throughout Southwest Hennepin County. Sojourner partners with nine police departments and serves residents across 17 cities. In 2025, the department provided 749 therapeutic sessions and facilitated 48 virtual support group sessions. Services reached 757 unduplicated adults and positively impacted the safety and wellbeing of 298 children. Throughout the year, advocates delivered more than 6,000 hours of direct client advocacy and support. Advocates assist clients with safety planning, navigating the legal system, understanding victim rights, and obtaining protection orders. Continued on Schedule O.
$401,760 spent32% of program spendingThe Outreach, Education, and Training Department works to increase community awareness and prevention education surrounding domestic violence, sexual violence, dating violence, and elder abuse. Staff provide customized trainings and presentations tailored to schools, organizations, professionals, and community groups to meet the unique needs of each audience. The department also continued its Youth Advisory Board initiative, ensuring youth perspectives remain integrated into SafeU programming and broader outreach efforts. By elevating youth voices, the program helps shape relevant and meaningful prevention education for young people in the community. In 2025, Community Educators facilitated 116 youth-focused presentations, 46 community awareness presentations, and participated in 51 networking opportunities along with 16 tabling events, collectively reaching more than 10,000 individuals. Continued on Schedule O.
$22,426 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,260,472.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.7M to $3.4M (−8%).
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 69% · 2018 75% · 2019 79% · 2020 69% · 2021 54% · 2022 73% · 2023 61% · 2024 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Sojourner Project Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Laura Sisterman
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 18 funders, grant income fell $132k → $131k.
9 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Sojourner Project Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
Sojourner Project Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
30% 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 Sojourner Project Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 20% · 2019 19% · 2020 28% · 2021 29% · 2022 28% · 2023 21% — 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
46% of Sojourner Project Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
70% of Sojourner Project Inc's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $239k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Sojourner Project Inc is better cushioned than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Sojourner Project Inc
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
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 Sojourner Project Inc: 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 Sojourner Project Inc?
- Sojourner Project Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,062,486 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($160,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sojourner Project Inc have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $1,062,486 in grants to Sojourner Project Inc, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sojourner Project Inc?
- OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sojourner Project Inc 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 42 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