Hello and welcome to the forum @cardanovault,
I assume this is about the Shelley Haskell testnet. (but I’m not 100% sure because you wrote you missed the snapshot)
The Cardano Foundation is not able to send test ada because the process is different. There is for example a testnet faucet where people can get ada and there is another way to get more ada, but this is also not in control of the Cardano Foundation.
So, where to go from here? You can find guidelines and how-to posts in the “operators talk”-category: Operate a Stake Pool - Cardano Forum in particular please have a look here: