Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SOMALI DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
SOMALI DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $479,311 to it, the largest being CareQuest Institute for Oral Health Inc ($125,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $469k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $479k
- Net assets
- $223k
What Somali Development Center Inc does
Mission
To provide excellent and accessible community services to the somali and other african communities in boston and massachusetts at large
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sdc accomplished to provide consistent, excellent and accessible community services to somalis and other african communities in boston and throughout massachusetts. Sdc services helped these communities to have access to basic resources, services, information and to build skills needed for a productive & self-sufficient lives in a new land. In addition, sdc strengthened the somali community by promoting mutual assistance, cultural identity and leadership, and has fostered the ability of somali individuals and families to advocate on their own behalf & participate societal affairs constructively.
$0 spentof which $348,484 as grantsNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spentNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
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 $221k to $407k (+84%).
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: 2023 2% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of SOMALI DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Abdirahman A Yusuf
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $118k → $38k.
1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC’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 DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
53% 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 DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 57% · 2021 44% · 2022 50% · 2023 52% — 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
17% of SOMALI DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
93% of SOMALI DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k 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
SOMALI DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding SOMALI DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $179k on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$129k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SOMALI DEVELOPMENT CENTER 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 SOMALI DEVELOPMENT CENTER 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 SOMALI DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC?
- SOMALI DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $479,311 to it, the largest being CareQuest Institute for Oral Health Inc ($125,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOMALI DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $479,311 in grants to SOMALI DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOMALI DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC?
- CareQuest Institute for Oral Health Inc is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOMALI DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 11 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