How much did Sparkyouth NYC Inc grant in FY2024?

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

02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$70,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CITY LIVING NY	$75,000
UPTOWN STORIES	$75,000
INSPIRING MINDS OF NEW YORK CITY INC	$72,975
AMERICA ON TECH	$72,300
SEEDS OF FORTUNE INC	$70,000
TECH KINDS UNLIMITED	$70,000
HARLEM GROWN INC	$70,000
BROOKLYN BOATWORKS	$70,000
STEM FROM DANCE	$70,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND (YVOTE)	$70,000
HAROLD HUNTER FOUNDATION	$70,000
DRAMA CLUB	$70,000
CITY GROWERS	$70,000
BRONX LACROSSE	$70,000
FUTURES IGNITE	$70,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $488k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$7.7M · 29 repeat orgs$496k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +130% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.7M

$496k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+130%

+33%

Still filing today

90%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

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HARLEM GROWN INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $554k · revenue +222%
AO
AMERICA ON TECH INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $538k · revenue ×18
BB
BROOKLYN BOATWORKS INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $517k · revenue +282%

Funded once

CHILDREN OF PROMISE NYCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $73k · revenue +75%
BN
BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $62k · revenue +37%
IC
I CHALLENGE MYSELF INC
one grant, 2017 · $61k · revenue +21%

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.

Stem Kids Nyc

To bridge the gap between the current school curriculum and the immediate need for schools to prepare students for STEM skills and for jobs that do not yet exist.

Education

King Hoops United

Empower the youth of new york city through basketball, providing them with academic enrichment, career development, and a strong sense of community to unlock their full potential

Youth Development

New York Scores

To empower youth to lead healthy lives, be engaged students, and have the confidence and character to make a difference in the world.

Youth Development

Digital Girl Incorporated

Digital Girl, Inc. (DGI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering the underserved youth of New York City, especially young girls, to pursue studies and careers in STEM ( Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) disciplines.

Education

Futures and Options Inc

Futures and options expands opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds and historically underrepresented communities, collaborating with employers to empower students to gain the skills and confidence needed to succeed in future…

Education

Reel Stories Teen Filmmaking Inc

Reel works mentors, inspires and empowers underserved nyc youth to share their stories through filmmaking, creating a springboard to successful careers in media and beyond.

Youth Development

Apex for Youth Inc

Apex for youth delivers possibilities to underserved asian and immigrant youth from low-income families in nyc. apex recruits working professionals to volunteer and become positive role models who inspire youth to expand their horizons and…

Community Improvement

Studio in a School Association Inc

From classrooms to careers, studio in a school expands access to visual arts education and professions in the arts by partnering with practicing artists, schools, and cultural institutions.

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New York State Youth Leadership Council Inc

New York State Youth Leadership Council, Inc. (NYSYLC or the Organization) works to empower immigrant youth through leadership development, grassroots organizing, educational advancement, and self-expression. NYSYLCs goal is to give…

Human Services

The Possibility Project Inc

The possibility project, inc. operates year long programs that bring together vastly diverse groups of youth from various backrounds and experiences. these youth undergo an intense year long creative process through which they write an…

Crime & Legal

Tomorrows Leaders Nyc

TLNYCs mission is to help students and community members overcome social, emotional, and academic challenges to become positive and productive leaders of their community.

Youth Development

The Urban Assembly Inc

To advance students' economic and social mobility by improving public education.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Drama Club Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Animation Project Inc. 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 13 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2/38

the rest of the field

11%

3,926/36,040

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.

04the grantee network

38 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/38

Grantees still filing

28/38

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$2,165,633Arts & Culture$1,865,200Youth Development$1,743,975Recreation & Sports$744,050Environment$553,850Human Services$488,315Other$832,715

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

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.

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

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 Sparkyouth NYC 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

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines