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Sparkpeople Service 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.

$73k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$96kHealth$46kInternational$37kReligion$30kHuman Services$26kPhilanthropy$11kAnimals$7kCivil Rights$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$968k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONTE VISTA CHRISTIAN SHCOOL$50,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
TEMPLE OF CHANGE TRANSFORM$10,000
CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH$2,000
THE COLLINS FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY TREE INC: $500 → 7%ANIMAL FRIENDS RESCUE PROJECT: $4k → 12%FLEAHAB INC: $3k → 13%FLEAHAB INC: $2k → 13%FLEAHAB INC: $2k → 13%FLEAHAB INC: $1k → 13%ENCOMPASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

AK
MN
IL
MA
OH
CA
CO
NE
VA
DC

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 98% of Sparkpeople Service Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 8% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Sparkpeople Service Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$292k · 15 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
17

Total granted

$292k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+9%

Still filing today

53%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyReligionAnimalsHealthOther

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

  • BA
    BAY AREA LYME FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +106%
  • CM
    CITYTEAM MINISTRIES
    2× · 2018–2022 · $14k · revenue +34%
  • AF
    ANIMAL FRIENDS HUMANE SOCIETY
    2× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • EC
    ENCOMPASS COMMUNITY SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +28%
  • CB
    Community Bridges
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +3%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
4
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
5
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
6
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
7
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
8
Community Medical Centers Inc

The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.

Health
9
Emanate Health

Our mission is to help people keep well in body, mind, and spirit by providing quality health care services in a safe, compassionate environment.

Health
10
Carson Tahoe Regional Healthcare

To enhance the health and well-being of the communities we serve.

Health
11
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
12
American Cancer Society Inc

Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Encompass Community Services and the most unlike its peers is Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%10%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr17%15%20–35yr11%40%35–55yr13%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr17%5%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr13%57%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,957

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.

05the grantee network

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $52,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $32,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $29,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPROJECT FAITH INTERNATIONAL — $25,000 · OtherPROJECT FAITH INTERNATIONALSALVATION ARMY — $15,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYAFRP — $7,000 · Other+14 more — $24,420 · Other+14 moreMonte Vista Christian School — $90,500 · EducationMonte Vista Christian SchoolVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $400 · EducationBAY AREA LYME FOUNDATION — $24,500 · PhilanthropyBAY AREA LY…United Way of Greater Cincinnati — $10,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way …THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $2,500 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERS…CITYTEAM MINISTRIES — $14,000 · ReligionTEMPLE OF CHANGE AND TRANSFORMATION — $10,000 · ReligionENCOMPASS COMMUNITY SERVICES — $10,000 · Human ServicesFLEAHAB INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesAnimal Friends Rescue Project — $4,000 · Human Services+1 more — $500 · Human ServicesCommunity Bridges — $10,000 · Food & NutritionANIMAL FRIENDS HUMANE SOCIETY — $3,000 · AnimalsMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Animals
Other$185,420Education$95,900Philanthropy$37,000Religion$24,000Human Services$21,500Food & Nutrition$10,000Animals$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMonte Vista Christian School — $90,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBAY AREA LYME FOUNDATION — $24,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES — $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENCOMPASS COMMUNITY SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Bridges — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEMPLE OF CHANGE AND TRANSFORMATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFLEAHAB INC — $7,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetNATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati-Ukraine Partnership — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAnimal Friends Rescue Project — $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY TREE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPELOTONIA — $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA13× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Sparkpeople Service 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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