SOMALI SUCCESS SCHOOL
To educate, empower, and encourage immigrants to be self-sufficient, contributing members of the community through adult education, advocacy, employment supports, and culturally specific services.
About SOMALI SUCCESS SCHOOL
Somali Success School is a Minneapolis-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides adult basic education, citizenship and civics training, cultural brokerage, and family/youth services focused on East African immigrants. The organization was founded out of community-led ESL and settlement services and operates as part of the Minneapolis adult education ecosystem. In the most recent reported fiscal year (2024) Somali Success served several hundred learners and substantially expanded instructional hours, reflecting sustained program delivery to newly arrived and low-income residents. The organization reports regular partnerships with state and local adult-education initiatives and maintains multi-site program delivery in Minneapolis. Somali Success has maintained formal tax-exempt status since 2005 and is led by founder and long-time executive Amal Abdalla; recent audited/990-reported financials show the organization operating with multi‑hundred-thousand-dollar annual budgets and multi‑million dollars in net assets, supporting continued growth and program stability.
Notable achievements
Large-scale adult education delivery (2024)
In fiscal year 2024 the organization reported serving several hundred unique learners and delivering over 100,000 hours of adult basic-education instruction, demonstrating measurable reach and instructional capacity for new Americans.
Sustained financial growth and stability
Recent Form 990 data show growth in revenue and net assets (reported revenues approximately $1.4M and total assets in the multimillion-dollar range in the most recent filing), enabling program expansion and staff capacity.
Longstanding community leadership
Founded from community ESL efforts and led by founder/CEO Amal Abdalla since the late 1990s, the organization has operated continuously for decades as a culturally specific provider for East African immigrants.
At a glance
- Total assets
- $2.4M
- Annual revenue
- $1.4M
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3)Public charity
- EIN
- 20-3021208
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN
- Website
- www.somalisuccess.org
- On Mahalo since
- May 2026
Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.
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