Massachusetts · Private foundation
Inner Spark Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $527k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,290
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Inner Spark Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $527k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $494k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $339k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $412k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $370k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $222k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $274k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $276k | 14% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Limits Foundation D/B/A Camp No Limits | $615,000 | 9 | 19% |
| Project Glimmer | $536,539 | 9 | 1% |
| Homeless Prenatal Program Inc | $316,316 | 9 | 0% |
| Babson College | $270,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Tenacity Inc | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Harper For Kids Inc | $42,000 | 6 | 6% |
| San Francisco Historical Society | $31,250 | 5 | 1% |
| San Francisco Childrens Art Center | $25,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Wender Weis Foundation for Children | $22,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Trevor Project Inc | $20,600 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Limits Foundation D/B/A Camp No Limits | $615,000 | 9 | 19% |
| Project Glimmer | $536,539 | 9 | 1% |
| Homeless Prenatal Program Inc | $316,316 | 9 | 0% |
| Babson College | $270,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Tenacity Inc | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Harper For Kids Inc | $42,000 | 6 | 6% |
| San Francisco Historical Society | $31,250 | 5 | 1% |
| San Francisco Childrens Art Center | $25,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Wender Weis Foundation for Children | $22,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Trevor Project Inc | $20,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Open Hearts Foundation | $13,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Xaverian Brothers High School | $5,500 | 4 | n/a |
| America's Charities | $5,113 | 1 | 0% |
| Museum of Fine Arts | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc | $513 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Inner Spark Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Inner Spark Foundation
- How much does Inner Spark Foundation give?
- Inner Spark Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $527,129 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Inner Spark Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (31%), Youth Development (21%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are Inner Spark Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: No Limits Foundation D/B/A Camp No Limits ($615k), Project Glimmer ($537k), Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ($316k).
- Does Inner Spark Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Inner Spark Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Inner Spark Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Inner Spark Foundation based?
- Inner Spark Foundation is based in MA.
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