· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANIMAL HOUSE PROJECT | $5,000 |
| NEW LIFE MENNONITE CHURCH | $5,000 |
| PROJECT PURPOSE CORP | $2,500 |
| ST THOMAS MORE CHURCH | $2,000 |
| OPERATION HOLIDAY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 97% of Sparks Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 3%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +90% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 5 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AHANIMAL HOUSE PROJECT6× · 2019–2024 · $8k · revenue +297%
- PPPROJECT PURPOSE CORPORATION4× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +70%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $7k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- CFCOVENTRY FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +11%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
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.
Paws need people strive to rescue pets from shelters and provide a place they can stay until they are adopted. they provide pets to veterans through its therapy pet program.
Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f
Vopa's mission is to stand to combat homelessness among veterans by providing support and services needed to promote an empowered life filled with strength and purpose.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
The organization seeks to reduce the unecessary killing and suffering of healthy adoptable dogs at animal rescue and shelter organizations
At humane society silicon valley, our mission is to save lives, keep families together, and create a better future for pets and their people.(see schedule o for continuation)
For veteran's sake foundation is here to provide an alternative solution to dealing with pts (post traumatic stress). we use a combination of a (non-therapeutic) neuro-traumatic resourcing, service dogs and consulting. working with the…
Fuzzy Pawz is a small group of dedicated volunteers who open their homes and their hearts to unwanted dogs and cats. Our non-profit rescue does not have a facility but rather places each animal into a private home. We supply all vet care,…
The pet compassion centers (pcc)strengthens the human-pet bond by supporting people, pets and the environment through affordable veterinary care, spay/neuter services, pet resources, education, and workforce pathways in underserved…
The organization temporarily feeds colorado pets, allowing families to increase their ability to care for pets with the goal of keeping them out of shelters and with their families.
Humane fort wayne is a trusted partner providing comprehensive, lifesaving resources to pets and their people.
To improve the quality of life for unowned neighborhood cats and the community they live in by reducing overpopulation through trap, neuter, return (tnr).
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ANIMAL HOUSE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PURPOSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENTRY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRICOUNTY COMMUNITY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN CATS INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sparks Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sparks Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Forgotten Cats Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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