· Private foundation
Jack D & Fredda S Sparks 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOTHER OF LIGHT CENTER | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METRO WASH DC | $15,000 |
| MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER | $15,000 |
| VALLEY MISSION | $10,000 |
| PRECLAMPSIA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +96% since the first grant, against +58% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VMVALLEY MISSION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +118%
- MOMother of Light Center3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +69%
- MRMOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER2× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- PPPlanned Parenthood of Metropolitanone grant, 2017 · $40k
- PPPlanned Parenthood of Metro Wash DC Planned Parenthood of Metro Wash DCone grant, 2019 · $40k
- DADC Abortion Fund DC Abortion Fundone grant, 2019 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Doula For The People is working to promote reproductive justice and improve maternal morbidity rates by increasing assess to no cost doula services, perinatal wellness resources, and nutritional support.
To facilitate with women who need help financially to help pay for their abortion, whether abortion is needed for emotional, maternal or fetal health. To help medical facilities who perform abortions open and stay open.
The policy center is improving maternal mental health outcomes through closing gaps in care delivery, including improving detection and access to evidence-based and informed clinical and community-based care. the policy center has been…
New river abortion access fund builds power and provides direct financial and practical support to southwest virginians and appalachians seeking abortion care. we dedicated to ensuring that all people have the autonomy and resources to…
The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.
To achieve reproductive freedom, feminist women's health center - cedar river clinics provides abortion and reproductive health services and information, so women may determine their own destiny. we are a social change organization that…
The richmond reproductive freedom project (rrfp) seeks to further reproductive justice by providing practical and financial support for abortion services in virginia and surrounding communities. rrfp strives to be a resource to the…
The Carolina Abortion Fund supports individuals who have decided to have an abortion by providing financial, logistical, and emotional support.
Power to decide envisions a world where everyone - no matter who they are or where they live - has control over their bodies and can decide if, when, and under what circumstances to get pregnant and have a child. its mission is to advance…
Dchc is a primary care organization committed to providing accessible, affordable and quality service to all members of the communities we serve.
Free and sliding scale reproductive, maternal and sexual health clinic providing stigma-free, patient-centered care regardless of insurance, income, or documentation status. See Schedule O for full mission statement.
Abortion fund of maryland (afm) provides financial assistance to people who live in or travel to maryland for abortion care.
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VALLEY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Mother of Light Center ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds DC ABORTION FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND ↗
- Who funds PREECLAMPSIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHITMAN-WALKER CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE ABORTION FUND INC ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jack D & Fredda S Sparks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack D & Fredda S Sparks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Preeclampsia Foundation Inc: 9% of income from government
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