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SAHARA CLUB

SAHARA CLUB (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25 to it, the largest being MARK E BRYANT CHARITABLE TRUST ($25). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$47k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$25
Net assets
$36k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Sahara Club does

Mission

Sahara Club provides meeting space for Alcoholics Annonymous groups

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Sahara Club provided meeting space for 23 AA groups in 2021 Over 700 individuals met for AA meetings and were provided literature and service medallions

    $14,529 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $14,529.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($45k) Expenses 100 ($39k) Net assets 100 ($28k)2022 Revenue 96 ($43k) Expenses 122 ($47k) Net assets 85 ($24k)2023 Revenue 118 ($52k) Expenses 111 ($43k) Net assets 119 ($33k)2024 Revenue 123 ($55k) Expenses 85 ($33k) Net assets 135 ($38k)2025 Revenue 105 ($47k) Expenses 88 ($34k) Net assets 130 ($36k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (105)Expenses (88)Net assets (130)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 2022 to 2023, from $24k to $33k (+40%).

$28k
$24k
$33k
$38k
$36k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of SAHARA CLUB’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,230 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’21
−$4k
’22
$9k
’23
$22k
’24
$13k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of SAHARA CLUB’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.

Where its funders are

SAHARA CLUB draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.

FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

SAHARA CLUB runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin28% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like SAHARA CLUB

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 Minnesota

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAHARA CLUB: 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 SAHARA CLUB?
SAHARA CLUB (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25 to it, the largest being MARK E BRYANT CHARITABLE TRUST ($25). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SAHARA CLUB have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25 in grants to SAHARA CLUB.
Who is the largest funder of SAHARA CLUB?
MARK E BRYANT CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $25 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAHARA CLUB 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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