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Sparkyouth NYC Inc

Sparkyouth nyc, inc. (the organization), is a nonprofit organization that ignites growth in community-based programs to expand opportunities for the young people of new york city.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$70,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 23
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Sparkyouth NYC Inc 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.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Youth DevelopmentArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$995k0%
FY202315$1.2M0%
FY202214$1.0M0%
FY202123$1.1M43%
FY202014$610k14%
FY201917$1.3M0%
FY201816$1.0M50%
FY201717$978kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$3.7MEducation$1.6MArts & Culture$1.1MEnvironment$554kRecreation & Sports$514kHuman Services$246kFood & Nutrition$241kPhilanthropy$231kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Sparkyouth NYC Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHarlem Grown Inc: $553,850 over 7y, 8.2% of budgetAmerica on Tech Inc: $537,725 over 7y, 12% of budgetBrooklyn Boatworks Inc: $517,288 over 8y, 21% of budgetSTEM From Dance Inc: $490,425 over 7y, 24% of budgetNew York City Urban Debate League Inc: $403,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetSouth Bronx United Inc: $343,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetPeople's Theatre Project Inc: $329,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetThe Time in Childrens Arts Initiative Inc: $294,500 over 3y, 46% of budgetLatinas on the Verge of Excellence- Love Inc: $263,250 over 5y, 35% of budgetUpbeat NYC Inc: $260,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetExtreme Kids and Crew Inc: $260,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetCity Living Ny Inc: $246,490 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetFutures Ignite Inc: $241,825 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetCity Growers Inc: $241,065 over 4y, 17% of budgetThe Harold Hunter Foundation: $235,950 over 4y, 30% of budgetUptown Stories Inc: $235,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetSeeds of Fortune Inc: $235,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetInspiring Minds of New York City Inc: $232,975 over 4y, 14% of budgetTech Kids Unlimited Inc: $231,300 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetDrama Club Inc: $231,275 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetBronx Lacrosse Inc Co Ota: $230,050 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetKings Against Violence Initiative Inc: $225,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetAtlas Diy Corporation: $174,150 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetRockaway Youth Task Force Inc: $165,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetYoung New Yorkers Chorus Inc: $160,000 over 2y, 85% of budgetBrooklyn Youth Sports Club Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetBrooklyn Defender Services: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChange for Kids Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetBreakthrough New York Inc: $61,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetI Challenge Myself Inc: $61,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetExalt Youth: $60,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetThe Animation Project Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetArt Creates US Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetScripted Inc Dba Code Nation: $60,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetStoked Mentoring Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetOpening Act Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 36.

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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.

Pinkerton FoundationNY56.5× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pinkerton Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Valentine Perry Snyder Fund Xxxxx9001 · Robin Hood Foundation · Pwc Foundation Inc · Hispanic Federation Inc · American Express Foundation · The Meringoff Family Foundation Inc

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.

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About Sparkyouth NYC Inc

How much does Sparkyouth NYC Inc give?
Sparkyouth NYC Inc reported 15 grants totaling $1,065,275 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Sparkyouth NYC Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (44%), Education (19%), Arts & Culture (14%).
Who are Sparkyouth NYC Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Harlem Grown Inc ($554k), America on Tech Inc ($538k), Brooklyn Boatworks Inc ($517k).
Does Sparkyouth NYC Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sparkyouth NYC Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pinkerton Foundation, Brooklyn Community Foundation, The Hyde and Watson Foundation.
Where is Sparkyouth NYC Inc based?
Sparkyouth NYC Inc is based in NY.

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 38 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 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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