California · Nonprofit
SABORE'S WELL
SABORE'S WELL (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,888 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($41,800). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $95k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $211k
- Net assets
- $286k
What Sabore's Well does
Mission
To assist african communities by creating opportunities for a better life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Naretu preschool academy: Sabore's Well opened naretu academy on january 21, 2019. The naretu academy currently educates 80 maasai children. During 2022, school uniforms were purchased for 25 students. The cafeteria was extended, two additional classrooms were built, and a new water tank, platform & gutters were installed for the teachers houses. A repurposed shipping container was outfitted with shelving, a desk and chairs to create a school library.
$20,038 spent42% of program spendingTrash punx project - project pick-up: a global innovative project designed to clean up the town of ewaso ngiro, kenya. Installed 26 trash receptacles throughout the town and had a community service day with over 300 volunteers collecting 27,000 pounds of garbage.
$13,125 spent28% of program spendingScu engineers project in partnership with ku leuven university: students collaborated for a year designing a structure to house a reverse osmosis system. Students travelled in march 2023 to assist the local contractors in digging the foundation and laying the conerstone for the building.
$11,930 spent25% of program spendingSabore's Well:in 2021, 2 acres of land were purchased for Sabore's Well. In 2022, a water analysis report was generated to determine the best system to use for purifying the water due to high concentration of fluoride and nitrates, which makes it non-consumable for humans.scholarships & school fees:scholarships are awarded from the m. Therese hjelm scholarship fund and from other donations. Each scholarship covers a student's tuition fees, uniforms & meals. During 2023, 28 scholarships were awarded to students.
$2,095 spentof which $420 as grants4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $47,188.
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 2022 to 2023, from $201k to $299k (+49%).
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.
98% of SABORE'S WELL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
M Therese Hjelm
CEO & co-founder
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $11k → $34k.
9 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 SABORE'S WELL’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
SABORE'S WELL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
97% 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 SABORE'S WELL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 64% · 2020 47% · 2021 50% · 2022 45% · 2023 51% — 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
29% of SABORE'S WELL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
92% of SABORE'S WELL'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 $18k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $193k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
SABORE'S WELL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,376 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,376 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like SABORE'S WELL
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
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 SABORE'S WELL: 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 SABORE'S WELL?
- SABORE'S WELL (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,888 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($41,800). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SABORE'S WELL have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $210,888 in grants to SABORE'S WELL, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SABORE'S WELL?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $41,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SABORE'S WELL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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