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SARTELL-ST STEPHEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION

SARTELL-ST STEPHEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,065 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($120,750). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$75k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$127k
Net assets
$605k
5/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 49%
01What it does

What Sartell-St Stephen Education Foundation does

Mission

Sartell-st. Stephen education foundation (ssef) supports innovative programming for the students in isd 748. Ssef embraces the goals of the district by providing funds for academic programming from early childhood through 12th grade, as well as providing scholarships to graduating seniors.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Ssef events are opportunities to provide isd# 748 students, parents, staff, and community members with information about ssef and to provide recognition for supporting our mission of innovative programming. Ssef events for 2025 included the senior awards program, chamber golf outing, and toast of autumn. 11 grants totaling $48,528 were awarded to isd#748 sartell-st.stephen for early childhood, elementary, and secondary education programs. Grants were awarded for the following programs: ckla discoveries through dramatic play and active learning; sms physical education disc golf start-up; sms sabre strong cart; speakable.com for middle school spanish; sms unified club; parts tumbler: deburr metal types with an innovative process; board games and puzzles for my special; education class; new class - history through films and games; 3d printer: bambu x1 carbon for engineering and robotics at shs; sartell high school children's theatre production; and inclusion for everyone in pe.

    $52,078 spentof which $48,828 as grants
    88% of program spending
  2. 10 scholarships were awarded to isd# 748 sartell-st. Stephen seniors.

    $7,400 spentof which $7,400 as grants
    12% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $59,478.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($91k) Expenses 100 ($59k) Net assets 100 ($343k)2018 Revenue 100 ($91k) Expenses 101 ($60k) Net assets 99 ($340k)2019 Revenue 94 ($86k) Expenses 103 ($61k) Net assets 120 ($410k)2020 Revenue 231 ($211k) Expenses 91 ($54k) Net assets 174 ($599k)2021 Revenue 113 ($103k) Expenses 322 ($191k) Net assets 158 ($543k)2022 Revenue 100 ($92k) Expenses 102 ($60k) Net assets 138 ($475k)2023 Revenue 75 ($69k) Expenses 137 ($81k) Net assets 136 ($468k)2024 Revenue 95 ($87k) Expenses 104 ($61k) Net assets 164 ($561k)2025 Revenue 82 ($75k) Expenses 140 ($83k) Net assets 176 ($605k)
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Revenue (82)Expenses (140)Net assets (176)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $410k to $599k (+46%).

$343k
$340k
$410k
$599k
$543k
$475k
$468k
$561k
$605k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

69% of SARTELL-ST STEPHEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$32k
’17
$31k
’18
$25k
’19
$157k
’20
−$87k
’21
$31k
’22
−$13k
’23
$25k
’24
−$8k
’25
3.0
months of
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.

Board chair

Josh Sugar

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2020202120242025
Listed17141716
Joined·+3·+2
No longer listed·6·3
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $6k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 SARTELL-ST STEPHEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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

SARTELL-ST STEPHEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

95% 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 SARTELL-ST STEPHEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

95%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 99% · 2021 87% · 2022 73% · 2023 94% — 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.

Where its funders are

95% of SARTELL-ST STEPHEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states.

MN
SD
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $121k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SARTELL-ST STEPHEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION's revenue fell 18% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−11% · below the median
Months of reserve3.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 20%Fundraising 8%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

82%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds SARTELL-ST STEPHEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
SARTELL-ST STEPHEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,065 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($120,750). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SARTELL-ST STEPHEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $127,065 in grants to SARTELL-ST STEPHEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SARTELL-ST STEPHEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
COMMUNITYGIVING is the largest funder on record, with $120,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SARTELL-ST STEPHEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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.

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 5 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