New York · Private foundation
The Sparkplug Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $668k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2024
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 92%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $62,976
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 54
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 16
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 92% of the organizations The Sparkplug Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 97% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $493k 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 | 42 | $648k | 90% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $509k | 92% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $481k | 95% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $531k | 95% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $644k | 81% |
| FY2019 | 49 | $560k | 90% |
| FY2018 | 52 | $520k | 94% |
| FY2017 | 41 | $396k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Western Regional Advocacy Project | $45,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Middle East Children's Alliance | $44,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Picture the Homeless | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Wespac Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Dissenters | $27,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Black Alliance for Just Immigration | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Families for Freedom Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Alliance for Global Justice Corp | $20,150 | 1 | 1% |
| Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice United | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 141 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 179 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Sparkplug Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 102 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · North Star Fund Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · New York Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Solidaire Network Inc · Tides Foundation · Tides Center · Common Counsel Foundation · The Ford Foundation
How this is measured
About The Sparkplug Foundation
- How much does The Sparkplug Foundation give?
- The Sparkplug Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $667,576 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 54 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Sparkplug Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (24%), Crime & Legal (12%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are The Sparkplug Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc ($50k), Western Regional Advocacy Project ($45k), Middle East Children's Alliance ($45k).
- Does The Sparkplug Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 92% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sparkplug Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sparkplug Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Proteus Fund Inc, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Sparkplug Foundation based?
- The Sparkplug Foundation is based in NY.
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