30-Days Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273971655
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Golden Valley, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6125544735
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $312,462
- Expenses
- $351,276
- Assets
- $64,871
- Liabilities
- $2,700
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- JOHN BENNETT (CHAIR)
- MAX KRAUTH (DIRECTOR)
- KAREN SORBO (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
30 days foundation helps people who need immediate short term financial aid. By paying a utility bill or other costs directly for the client, 30 days foundation enables people to continue funtioning smoothly through a financial crisis.
What it reported doing in 2025
30 days foundation helps people who need immediate short term financial aid. By paying a utility bill or other costs directly for the client, 30 days foundation enables people to continue funtioning smoothly through a financial crisis.the 30-days foundation funds primarily three types of requests. These three issues make up 90% of our grants 1. Rent, security deposit, application fees and back rent issues through our keep the key program 2. Utility bills including water, heat, electricity, phone and internet bills throughout energized program 3. Sober and recovery home partial deposit request from advocates and individuals through out some hope program the remaining grants include car repair, birth certificate renewals, along with our let's move program where we assist with moving fees and storage unit bills.funds from 30-days foundation's events are used for these grants. In 2023 rent, security deposit, application fees and related items were the subject of 713 grant awards totaling 104,044 in grants paid. Utility bills were provided through 505 grants for a total of 69,940 in grants paid.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 77% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.8%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.8%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $19.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.4%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.5% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.8% of revenue deployed · 88.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $312K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.