Skip to content

Minnesota · Nonprofit

SOMALI AMERICAN SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION

SOMALI AMERICAN SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $524,923 to it, the largest being MAYO CLINIC ($188,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$251k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$525k
Net assets
$50k
6/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 78%
01What it does

What Somali American Social Service Association does

Mission

Somali American Social Service Associations vision is to provide educational, recreational, cultural, health and lifelong learning opportunities for somali community members in olmsted county, minnesota.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Somali American Social Service Association's mission is to establish the initiatives of sustainable development programs, public education, advocacy, helping youth, empowering women, and small business support within the somali community in olmsted county, minnesota.

    $176,428 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $176,428.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($109k) Expenses 100 ($99k) Net assets 100 ($20k)2018 Revenue 123 ($134k) Expenses 122 ($121k) Net assets 162 ($32k)2021 Revenue 176 ($192k) Expenses 221 ($219k) Net assets 60 ($12k)2022 Revenue 177 ($194k) Expenses 181 ($179k) Net assets 140 ($28k)2023 Revenue 166 ($181k) Expenses 201 ($198k) Net assets 54 ($11k)2024 Revenue 230 ($251k) Expenses 215 ($212k) Net assets 252 ($50k)
201720182021202220232024
Revenue (230)Expenses (215)Net assets (252)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $23k to $54k (+140%).

$20k
$33k
$14k
$31k
$23k
$54k
201720182021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of SOMALI AMERICAN SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,945 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’17
$14k
’18
−$27k
’21
$14k
’22
−$17k
’23
$39k
’24
3.1
months of
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.

Board chair

Fannah Adam

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $46k → $64k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
$188k
Youthpriseunclassified
$155k
funders
3
1
3
3
6
2
3
4

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 SOMALI AMERICAN SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION’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

SOMALI AMERICAN SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

92% 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 SOMALI AMERICAN SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION.

36%
largest funder
73%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 100% · 2019 49% · 2020 51% · 2021 27% · 2022 60% · 2023 39% — 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

40% of SOMALI AMERICAN SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

95% of SOMALI AMERICAN SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN
IL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $240k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SOMALI AMERICAN SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like SOMALI AMERICAN SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 9%Fundraising 8%

Governance

7
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOMALI AMERICAN SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds SOMALI AMERICAN SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION?
SOMALI AMERICAN SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $524,923 to it, the largest being MAYO CLINIC ($188,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOMALI AMERICAN SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $524,923 in grants to SOMALI AMERICAN SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOMALI AMERICAN SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION?
MAYO CLINIC is the largest funder on record, with $188,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOMALI AMERICAN SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION 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.

Play a game about who funds Somali American Social Service Association →

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 8 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