African Development Center
Minneapolis, MN · EIN 20-0553370. Reported 25 grants totalling $278,669 to 23 organizations across tax years 2022-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For African Development Center, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P40) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 23 distinct organizations, with 12% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 11% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $14,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $30,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geire Properties Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $33,805 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Oasis Mediterranean Grill | Minneapolis, MN | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Arwa Fashion USA Co | Minneapolis, MN | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Goodland Properties Inc Dba Bezalel and Lelo LLC | South St Paul, MN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Haji's Locksmith LLC | Blaine, MN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Haidars Logistics LLC | Burnsville, MN | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jambo Africa Inc | Brooklyn Center, MN | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ilham Trading Company L L C | New Hope, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kids Center St Paul Ltd | St Paul, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Midwest Developers Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Curl Loft Llp Dba Uptown Curl | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Time Motor Sales Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jetsstar LLC | St Paul, MN | $8,864 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Addis Travel Services LLC | St Paul, MN | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hope Hair Braiding LLC | Brooklyn Park, MN | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nabil Property LLC | Eden Prairie, MN | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Photo Shop LLC | Brooklyn Park, MN | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Procare Health Corp | Eden Prairie, MN | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sanag Restaurant 2 LLC | Minneapolis, MN | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Twins Halal Meat LLC | Minneapolis, MN | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Voices LLC Dba Voices Magazine | Fridley, MN | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Godson Trucking LLC | Woodbury, MN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Park Liquor Outlet Corp | Brooklyn Park, MN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
2 of 23 (9%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 18 | $208,864 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 7 | $69,805 | $7,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Minnesota.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from African Development Center's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1931 5TH Street South, Minneapolis, MN, 55454.
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