Tennessee · Private foundation
The Sparks Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $401k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $375,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Sparks Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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 | 5 | $401k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $277k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $192k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $279k | 65% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $210k | 55% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $232k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $52k | 91% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $54 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| America First Policy Institute Inc | $425,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Oher Foundation Inc Fka Beat the Odds Inc | $162,000 | 3 | 27% |
| Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation | $111,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Turning Point USA Inc | $110,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $75,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Indian College Fund | $70,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Victory Church | $50,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Americans of Faith | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Palmetto Front Line Foundation | $25,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Jordan Thomas Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($338k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Sparks Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 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: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Nashville Predators Foundation · Collier Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Sparks Foundation
- How much does The Sparks Foundation give?
- The Sparks Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $401,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Sparks Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (30%), Philanthropy (15%), Religion (15%).
- Who are The Sparks Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: America First Policy Institute Inc ($425k), Oher Foundation Inc Fka Beat the Odds Inc ($162k), Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation ($111k).
- Does The Sparks Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sparks Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sparks Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation of Memphis, Nashville Predators Foundation, Collier Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Sparks Foundation based?
- The Sparks Foundation is based in TN.
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