· Private foundation
Mastek Sparkman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k17 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEREFORD YOUTH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $50,000 |
| THE KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $27,500 |
| KANSAS FFA FOUNDATION | $27,000 |
| THETA XI FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL FFA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC | $12,100 |
| OHIO CATTLEMENS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| OHIOHEALTH FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| A KID AGAIN | $3,000 |
| GICA | $2,500 |
| BOCA GRANDE WOMEN'S CLUB | $2,000 |
| BOCA GRANDE PRESCHOOL | $1,500 |
| DUBLIN AM ROTARY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF COLUMBUS | $1,300 |
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 (FY18–25, $315k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
40 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 8 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; $12k 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
- HYHEREFORD YOUTH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA5× · 2021–2025 · $258k · revenue +52%
- TXTHETA XI FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2025 · $205k · revenue +2%
- KFKANSAS FFA FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2025 · $154k · revenue +692%
Funded once
- EAEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +188%
- CDCARPE DIEM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k
- SISt Isadore Student Centerone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
Accelerating the most effective gene therapy treatments for children with ultra-rare diseases.
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc. is to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world's most promising research.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
The hairy cell leukemia foundation is dedicated to improving outcomes for patients by advancing research into the causes and treatment of hairy cell leukemia, as well as by providing educational resources and comfort to all those affected…
Dedicated to improving the quality of life for all people affected by lupus through programs of research, education and advocacy. our vision is a world without lupus.
To facilitate receipt of life income gifts for future benefit of Butler University.
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
As the philanthropic arm of the swog cancer research network, the hope foundation strives to provide funding and resources for cancer clinical trials research in various forms of adult cancers. fellowships, research grants, professional…
To fund cystic fibrosis research, provide educational and personal support, and to spread awareness of cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening genetic disease.
The columbus medical association foundation, through the governance and oversight of its board of physicians and other experts, effects change within specific priority areas to improve the health and wellbeing of the residents and…
Conquer cancer funds research for every type of cancer to benefit every patient, everywhere. working in collaboration with a global network of top scientists and clinicians, and leading advocacy and research organizations, conquer cancer…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Ffa Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Lindy Infante Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 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. 50 of the 112 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 HEREFORD YOUTH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THETA XI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LINDY INFANTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds STOCKHANDS HORSES FOR HEALING ↗
- Who funds National FFA Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OHIO CATTLEMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM A LA CART ↗
- Who funds THE DUBLIN AM ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
- Who funds AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Columbus Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Community Foundations Inc · Harry C Moores Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · The Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus · Howe Family Foundation · Barbasol Foundation · Linda & Barry Allen Foundation · The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · L Brands 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 Mastek Sparkman Family 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 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.
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