· Private foundation
Sparkhound Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK | $6,301 |
| THE EMERGE CENTER | $2,500 |
| THE WALLS PROJECT | $1,500 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS LOUISIANA | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–18, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those 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 +41% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- GBGREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK5× · 2018–2024 · $41k · revenue +99%
The Houston Food Bank3× · 2018–2023 · $17k · revenue +28%- CFCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA2× · 2020–2023 · $8k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $9k
Central Texas Food Bank Incone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -28%- LFLSU FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +103%
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.
Prevent homelessness. promote self-sufficiency and dignity.
Nw la food bank's mission is to be the primary resource for fighting hunger in northwest louisiana.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Using direct representation and advocacy, we fight to keep children out of the justice system so that they can thrive in their homes and communities.
To alleviate hunger in central louisiana
To improve children's access to healthcare, education, & support services.
The arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
Tarc, inc. is a nonprofit corporation which provides opportunities for children and adults with disabilities to realize their full potential, and to become self-directed and contributing citizens.
Provide food, hope and dignity to our neighbors who struggle with hunger, and lead the movement to alleviate hunger through education, collaboration and advocacy.
To create communities of health through fresh food. Brighter Bites seeks to improve health outcomes among children and families in under-resourced communities by using data-driven, evidence-based strategies for providing fresh produce and…
Louisiana appleseed solves our state's toughest problems at their root cause by advocating for access to justice, opportunity, and education. we believe that our state will be stronger through fair and equitable access to the courts, the…
The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Brazilian Cultural Institute. 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 24 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 45 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 GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WALLS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA CASA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EMERGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds MANNERS OF THE HEART INC ↗
- Who funds TANKPROOF ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC BATON ROUGE ↗
- Who funds KNOCK KNOCK CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Thrive Foundation ↗
- Who funds BATON ROUGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NorthStar Soccer Ministries ↗
- Who funds CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BATON ROUGE INC ↗
- Who funds GARDERE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPES PATH ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM CARE EDUCATION AND SERVICES ↗
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: Baton Rouge Area Foundation · The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Capital Area United Way · The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation · The Charles Lamar Family Foundation · The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation · Irene W & Cb Pennington Private Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Our Lady of the Lake Hospital Inc · Pennington Family Foundation · Rotary Club of Baton Rouge 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 Sparkhound Foundation Inc 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% 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.