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Spark Ns Inc

Spark ns is dedicated to more efficiently advancing promising academic discoveries in neuroscience from the lab to the clinic.

$814k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
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76% of Spark Ns Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Median grant, FY2024
$183,725
Largest grant, FY2024
$434,717
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$3.9M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley$98,6461n/a
University of Florida$96,4871n/a

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Find your warmest path to Spark Ns Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Spark Ns Inc

How much does Spark Ns Inc give?
Spark Ns Inc reported 4 grants totaling $813,575 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Spark Ns Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (77%), Education (23%).
Who are Spark Ns Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: Regents of the University of California at Berkeley ($99k), University of Florida ($96k).
Where is Spark Ns Inc based?
Spark Ns Inc is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 4 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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