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Sparkpeople Service Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0177% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MN
IL
MA
OH
CA
CO
NE
VA
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 98% of Sparkpeople Service Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 8% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 0%.

Sparkpeople Service Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
  • MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • UW
    United Way of Greater Cincinnati
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -26%
  • EC
    ENCOMPASS COMMUNITY SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +28%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Encompass Community Services; 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.
05the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & NutritionMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $3,000 · AnimalsANIMAL FRIENDS HUMANE SOCIETY: $3,000 · Animals
Other$185,420Education$95,900Philanthropy$37,000Religion$24,000Human Services$21,500Food & Nutrition$10,000Animals$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENCOMPASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Bridges: $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 budgetCincinnati-Ukraine Partnership: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Paypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sparkpeople Service Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sparkpeople Service Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 35 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-PF 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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