How much did HELEN GERTRUDE SPARKS CHARITABLE TRUST grant in FY2025?

HELEN GERTRUDE SPARKS CHARITABLE TRUST reported 3 grants totaling $30,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is HELEN GERTRUDE SPARKS CHARITABLE TRUST based?

HELEN GERTRUDE SPARKS CHARITABLE TRUST is based in TX.

HELEN GERTRUDE SPARKS CHARITABLE TRUST

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

HELEN GERTRUDE SPARKS CHARITABLE TRUST

This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.

$30k

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$10k

Largest

01What you fund

0163% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Human Services$30kCivil Rights$25kHousing & Shelter$20kEducation$20kRecreation & Sports$10kYouth Development$10kHealth$10kOther$75k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

tarrant

2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

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2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$783k

Total assets

Largest grants

ALL SAINTS HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
TEXAS RAMP PROJECT$10,000
SURVIVE AND THRIVE EDUCATION$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

North Texas Rehabilitation Center Inc

Rehabilitation services

Health

Texans Care for Children Inc

Texas Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to life.

Crime & Legal

Texas Defender Service

Texas Defender Service (TDS) leads the fight to end excessive punishment in Texas.

Civil Rights

Fort Worth Teen Challenge Inc

Provide rehabilitation services and guidance to follow Christian principles to restore teens and young adults sufferning from addictions and trauma and ultimately placing them back into society as positive contributors

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Trauma Support Services of North Texas

Trauma Support Services provides support for those who have experienced trauma and victims of crime. It provides programming essential to the community and trauma survivors.

Public Safety & Disaster

Texprotects-the Texas Association for

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development

Lone Star Casa Inc

Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…

Civil Rights

Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services

Housing Opportunities of Fort Worth

Housing counseling services.

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Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers -

Faith based acute care hospital providing exemplary patient care, medical education, medical research and community service to McKinney, Texas and the surrounding communities.

Health

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center -

Faith based acute care hospital providing exemplary patient care, medical education, medical research and community service to Frisco, Texas and the surrounding communities.

Health

His Story Coaching and Counseling

Christian coaching, counseling, assessment and consulting services to the communities of Tarrant County, Texas.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Survive and Thrive Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/14

Grantees still filing

10/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$75,000Human Services$30,000Civil Rights$25,000Housing & Shelter$20,000Education$20,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Youth Development$10,000Health$10,000

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.

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation of North Texas (TaxTX27.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust · Ann L Rhodes and Carol Greene Rhodes · Amon G Carter-Star Tele Emply Fund · Mary Potishman Lard Trust · Garvey Texas Foundation Inc · Stein Family Charitable Trust · Schollmaier Foundation · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · Paul E Andrews Jr 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 organisation HELEN GERTRUDE SPARKS CHARITABLE TRUST 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.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE GATEHOUSE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 752514849 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE GATEHOUSE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 22% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Helen Gertrude Sparks Charitable Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

HELEN GERTRUDE SPARKS CHARITABLE TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Helen Gertrude Sparks Charitable Trust?

More from the funding graph

HELEN GERTRUDE SPARKS CHARITABLE TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Helen Gertrude Sparks Charitable Trust?

More from the funding graph