Minnesota · Nonprofit
THE MAMA ADA FOUNDATION
THE MAMA ADA FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,849 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($84,453). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $120k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $91k
- Net assets
- $160k
What The Mama Ada Foundation does
Mission
Assist farmers and students in kenya.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provide scholarship money for high school and college students from kenya who would not be able to attend school otherwise.
$2,726 spentof which $2,726 as grants8% of program spendingProvide crop inputs for families in kenya. Money goes to seed and fertilizer for farmers who would otherwise not be able to plant crops and feed their families.
$25,808 spentof which $25,808 as grants79% of program spendingThis funding is for an agriculture project that provides training to farmers in kenya to help them better understand how to maximize seed inputs. Increase farming production to help feed families.
$3,967 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $32,501.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $62k to $152k (+145%).
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.
100% of THE MAMA ADA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
The Rev James B Cook
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $300 → $11k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 THE MAMA ADA FOUNDATION’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
THE MAMA ADA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 THE MAMA ADA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 85% · 2021 100% · 2022 77% · 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
93% of THE MAMA ADA FOUNDATION'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
THE MAMA ADA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE MAMA ADA FOUNDATION
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MAMA ADA FOUNDATION: 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 THE MAMA ADA FOUNDATION?
- THE MAMA ADA FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,849 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($84,453). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE MAMA ADA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $90,849 in grants to THE MAMA ADA FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MAMA ADA FOUNDATION?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $84,453 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MAMA ADA FOUNDATION 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 7 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