Minnesota · Nonprofit
THE SANNEH FOUNDATION
THE SANNEH FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 130 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,267,164 to it, the largest being DELTA DENTAL OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($2,425,000). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 130
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $12M
What The Sanneh Foundation does
Mission
The Sanneh Foundation, a youth development organization, provides life skills programs for at-risk children using soccer as the catalyst to empower kids, improve lives, and unite communities. The mission of sanneh is to empower youth, improve lives, and unite communities. Sanneh empowers youth by supporting and promoting educational attainment through in-school and after-school support, improves lives by providing programs that strengthen physical health and social and emotional development, and unites communities by advancing diversity, equity, and community well-being.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Sanneh Foundation maintains the conway community center - a thriving public space that offers diverse and free youth programming and a safe place for local youth to spend out of school time. The foundation also offers free pro sports camps throughout minneapolis, st. Paul, and surrounding metro areas.
$1,595,218 spent$676,954 earned by the program26% of program spendingThe Sanneh Foundation's dreamline program is an academic intervention program serving low-income, under-performing students in public middle schools and high schools.
$1,182,244 spent19% of program spendingThe Sanneh Foundation's nutrition services involve packaging and distributing meals six days a week to help close the food insecurity gap for families in the twin cities metro area.
$1,729,535 spentof which $39,080 as grants$5,347 earned by the program28% of program spendingThe Sanneh Foundation offers other programs as well such as free pro camps and the haitian initiative.
$1,711,488 spent$1,877,855 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,218,485.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.7M to $8.0M (+118%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 39% · 2018 21% · 2019 19% · 2020 1% · 2021 19% · 2022 30% · 2023 36% · 2024 28% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of THE SANNEH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Brian Findlay
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 56 funders, grant income rose $494k → $2.2M.
21 of 130 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 THE SANNEH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 130 funders by total. 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
THE SANNEH FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
53% 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 THE SANNEH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 36% · 2019 52% · 2020 67% · 2021 38% · 2022 11% · 2023 13% — 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
53% of THE SANNEH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
89% of THE SANNEH FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
THE SANNEH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 144 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 144 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE SANNEH FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7M on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$1.7M
- Department of Labor$1.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE SANNEH FOUNDATION
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- Parkside Homes LLC · disregarded
- Seton Real Estate Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Bridlewood Homes LLC · disregarded
- Conway Athletic Club LLC · disregarded
- 1604 Wilson Avenue Homes LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SANNEH FOUNDATION: 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 THE SANNEH FOUNDATION?
- THE SANNEH FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 130 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,267,164 to it, the largest being DELTA DENTAL OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($2,425,000). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SANNEH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 130 organizations giving $15,267,164 in grants to THE SANNEH FOUNDATION, 73 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SANNEH FOUNDATION?
- DELTA DENTAL OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,425,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SANNEH 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 130 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing