Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Sparks Family Foundation
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.
- $16k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2024
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $82k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Sparks Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 6 | $16k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $7k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $10k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $10k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $8k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $5k | 57% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $4k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal House Project | $8,200 | 6 | 1% |
| Project Purpose Corporation | $8,160 | 4 | 2% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $7,100 | 3 | 0% |
| New Life Mennonite Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Coventry Food Pantry | $2,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Furman University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tricounty Community Network Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Forgotten Cats Inc | $500 | 2 | 0% |
| Paws for Purple Hearts | $250 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($24k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sparks Family 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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Sparks Family Foundation
- How much does Sparks Family Foundation give?
- Sparks Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $16,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sparks Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (24%), Human Services (21%), Animals (15%).
- Who are Sparks Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Animal House Project ($8k), Project Purpose Corporation ($8k), Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($7k).
- Does Sparks Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sparks Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sparks Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Charities Aid Foundation America, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Sparks Family Foundation based?
- Sparks Family Foundation is based in PA.
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