Advancement of Hmong Americans

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
842937278
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Brooklyn Park, MN, USA
Phone
6122279968
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$61,772
Expenses
$78,241
Assets
$122,376
Liabilities
$1,392

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Hli Xyooj (Co-Executive Director)
  • Mai Lor (Co-Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Hli Xyooj (Co-Executive Director)
  • Mai Lor (Co-Executive Director)
  • Sheila Yang (Board Chair)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Advancement of Hmong Americans is organized for the purpose of empowering the Hmong community to be experts of their own lives through community engagement, knowledge sharing, and self-determination.

What it reported doing in 2025

We facilitated and collaborated with other nonprofits to host 8 events focused on outdoor activities such as hunter safety education, learning to paddle, hike, and snowshoe and experience camping, ice fishing. All of our outdoor events are designed for people who are new to experiencing outdoor activities and have learning components of nature conservation and basic outdoor skills. We host youth empowerment groups twice a month from October to June. Youth age ranges from 12 to 18 years old. All youth are from the Hmong American community. We provide technical assistance to Hmong farmers so they can access resources to improve their markets. Our team joined a national meeting of Farm Advocates in Minnesota so that we can expand our network of farm advocates. This year we partnered with a local gardening nonprofits to provide support to a community garden that is majority Hmong elders.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 96
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 29
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 88.4%; rating input score 88

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -26.7%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.56; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 26.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 40.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -24.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $69K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.