· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of your 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 +96% since the first grant, against +58% for the ones you 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
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
- 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
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Ridge Abortion Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Preeclampsia Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 14 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 VALLEY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Mother of Light Center ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND ↗
- Who funds DC ABORTION FUND ↗
- Who funds PREECLAMPSIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHITMAN-WALKER CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE ABORTION FUND 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 tightly interlocked camp — 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
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 Jack D & Fredda S Sparks Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Preeclampsia Foundation Inc — 9% of income from government
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.