Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES INC
SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,241,892 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($246,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $395k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $576k
What South Sudanese Enrichment for Families Inc does
Mission
South sudanese enrichment for families (ssef) provides whole-family programming for education, cultural and social enrichment for the greater boston south sudanese community. Ssef is the only whole-family resource dedicated to south sudanese who have resettled in massachusetts. Committed to enhancing strengths, building self-sufficiency, and promoting community, ssef assists with navigating systems, accessing resources, building skills, and creating opportunities to share south sudan's history and distinct cultural heritage. Ssef does this by connecting south sudanese adults and their children with the following: accessible preschool summer camp opportunities community-based enrichment outreach programs, cross-cultural events and exhibitions youth support
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ssef is the only whole-family resource dedicated to south sudanese who have resettled in massachusetts. Committed to enhancing strengths, building self-sufficiency, and promoting community, ssef assists with navigating systems, accessing resources, building skills, and creating opportunities to share south sudan's history and distinct cultural heritage. Ssef does this by connecting south sudanese adults and their children with the following:the women's programeducational empowermentcommunity-based enrichmentoutreach programs, cross-cultural events and exhibitionsthe youth program (including support for athletics)
$261,276 spentof which $153,604 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $261,276.
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 $233k to $458k (+97%).
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.
98% of SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Panther Alier
Co-executive director
Board chair
Tom Sprague
Co-chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $5k → $334k.
9 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES 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
SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
61% 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 SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 77% · 2019 45% · 2020 28% · 2021 26% · 2022 56% · 2023 53% — 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
23% of SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
59% of SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES INC'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 $510k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $732k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES INC
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES 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 SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES INC?
- SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,241,892 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($246,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,241,892 in grants to SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES INC?
- ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $246,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES 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 26 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