· Public charity
Firstspark Inc
Promote quality early childhood care and education for young children ages birth to 5 and provide prenatal resources for expectant women.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k6 grants · $965k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEAKE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $725,269 |
| PRECIOUS JEWELS LLC | $640,690 |
| ARMS OF THE KING | $315,767 |
| TICK TOCK AROUND THE CLOCK LLC | $293,759 |
| GRAND KIDS CHILD CARE CENTER | $251,752 |
| WARWICK KIDS ACADEMY OPERATED BY DEE CARE LLC | $234,907 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH DENBIGH CHILD | $193,315 |
| HORIZONS UNLIMITED EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $187,786 |
| RF WILKINSON YMCA PRESCHOOL | $183,365 |
| YMCA - HUNNICUT | $107,890 |
| AMAZING CHILD CARE AND LEARNING ACADEMY | $58,016 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- DHDOWNTOWN HAMPTON CHILD CARE COUNCIL INC4× · 2022–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +79%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULAS3× · 2023–2025 · $949k · revenue +14%
- HRHAMPTON ROADS INTERNATIONAL MONTESSORI S3× · 2022–2024 · $671k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- ADASHTON DAY CAREone grant, 2024 · $160k
- HRHAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INCone grant, 2023 · $95k · revenue +4%
- LLLITTLE LIGHT HOUSE CARE LLC - NNone grant, 2022 · $17k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DOWNTOWN HAMPTON CHILD CARE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULAS ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS INTERNATIONAL MONTESSORI S ↗
- Who funds FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH DENBIGH CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER AND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Firstspark Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.