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SNELL FOUNDATION INC

SNELL FOUNDATION INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being THE LARCH FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.6M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$25k
Net assets
$3.4M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Snell Foundation Inc does

Mission

Safety testing and research

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To establish safety standards for various types of head-gear; test consumer products to foundation standards; publish industry standards and guidelines relative to the head-gear industry; provide snell foundation insignias for those products meeting the standards.

    $847,678 spent$1,478,661 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. N/a

  3. N/a

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $847,678.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2021 Revenue 146 ($1.7M) Expenses 94 ($1.4M) Net assets 125 ($3.7M)2022 Revenue 221 ($2.5M) Expenses 94 ($1.4M) Net assets 96 ($2.8M)2023 Revenue 53 ($601k) Expenses 90 ($1.3M) Net assets 85 ($2.5M)2024 Revenue 108 ($1.2M) Expenses 86 ($1.2M) Net assets 98 ($2.9M)2025 Revenue 145 ($1.6M) Expenses 85 ($1.2M) Net assets 115 ($3.4M)
201920212022202320242025
Revenue (145)Expenses (85)Net assets (115)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 2021 to 2022, from $3.8M to $2.9M (−24%).

$3.2M
$3.8M
$2.9M
$2.7M
$3.0M
$3.5M
201920212022202320242025
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.

2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of SNELL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,090 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$317k
’19
$300k
’21
$1.1M
’22
−$706k
’23
−$31k
’24
$402k
’25
1.8
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.

201920212022202320242025
Listed776777
Joined··+0+1+0+0
No longer listed··1000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of SNELL FOUNDATION INC’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

SNELL FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 1 state in all.

CA

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

SNELL FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 497 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · above the median
Months of reserve1.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 497 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like SNELL FOUNDATION INC

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 Mississippi

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 32%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Snell Research Center · exempt

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds SNELL FOUNDATION INC?
SNELL FOUNDATION INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being THE LARCH FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SNELL FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to SNELL FOUNDATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of SNELL FOUNDATION INC?
THE LARCH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SNELL FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 2019–2025), 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