Texas · Private foundation
Sam & Marille Sparks East Town Osteopathic Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $144k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2024
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $6,110
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 36
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $710k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations Sam & Marille Sparks East Town Osteopathic Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 17 | $144k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $163k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $128k | 69% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $60k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $70k | 53% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $81k | 72% |
| FY2017 | 33 | $87k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Ramp Project | $39,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Nexus Recovery Center Incorporated | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Good Samaritans of Garland Inc | $34,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Equest | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Magdalen House | $18,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hidden Acres Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Kansas City University | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas Inc | $11,500 | 3 | 0% |
| River of Life Homes | $11,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Ferguson Road Initiative | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Ramp Project | $39,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Nexus Recovery Center Incorporated | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Good Samaritans of Garland Inc | $34,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Equest | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Magdalen House | $18,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hidden Acres Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Kansas City University | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas Inc | $11,500 | 3 | 0% |
| River of Life Homes | $11,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Ferguson Road Initiative | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Unthsc Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 104 recipients with no EIN on record ($519k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sam & Marille Sparks East Town Osteopathic 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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sam & Marille Sparks East Town Osteopathic Foundation
- How much does Sam & Marille Sparks East Town Osteopathic Foundation give?
- Sam & Marille Sparks East Town Osteopathic Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $144,210 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sam & Marille Sparks East Town Osteopathic Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (43%), Health (11%), Housing & Shelter (7%).
- Who are Sam & Marille Sparks East Town Osteopathic Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Texas Ramp Project ($39k), Nexus Recovery Center Incorporated ($35k), Good Samaritans of Garland Inc ($35k).
- Does Sam & Marille Sparks East Town Osteopathic Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sam & Marille Sparks East Town Osteopathic Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sam & Marille Sparks East Town Osteopathic Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Texas Instruments Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Sam & Marille Sparks East Town Osteopathic Foundation based?
- Sam & Marille Sparks East Town Osteopathic Foundation is based in TX.
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