Minnesota · Nonprofit
UJAMAA PLACE
UJAMAA PLACE (Minnesota) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,582,679 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST AREA FOUNDATION ($1,975,000). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Ujamaa Place does
Mission
Ujamaa Place provides holistic transformation opportunities for young black men experiencing inequity at the intersection of race and poverty and helps them achieve brotherhood, stability, and personal success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Ujamaa Place program provides a comprehensive approach that offers young men a pathway to success through high context coaching plus education and training in empowerment skills, basic job skills & job search, ged, spirituality, african american culture, and life skills. Key indicators of success: Ujamaa Place graduates have completed their ged, are using empowerment skills in their daily lives, not reoffending, are drug gree, have stable housing, holding a steady job, and are positively connected to their families and children.
$2,626,991 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,626,991.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.4M to $8.0M (+46%).
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 45% · 2018 30% · 2019 40% · 2020 40% · 2021 17% · 2022 20% · 2023 37% · 2024 42% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of UJAMAA PLACE’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. 1 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
Richard Coffey
CEO
Board chair
Keith Allen
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $888k → $1.6M.
12 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 UJAMAA PLACE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
UJAMAA PLACE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
44% 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 UJAMAA PLACE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 30% · 2019 35% · 2020 17% · 2021 16% · 2022 10% · 2023 16% — 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
54% of UJAMAA PLACE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
90% of UJAMAA PLACE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
UJAMAA PLACE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UJAMAA PLACE
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 UJAMAA PLACE: 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 UJAMAA PLACE?
- UJAMAA PLACE (Minnesota) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,582,679 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST AREA FOUNDATION ($1,975,000). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UJAMAA PLACE have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $12,582,679 in grants to UJAMAA PLACE, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UJAMAA PLACE?
- NORTHWEST AREA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,975,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UJAMAA PLACE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 67 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing