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The Sparks 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.

$70k
Granted FY2024still arriving
72
Grants FY2024still arriving
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
0167% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$335kReligion$11kArts & Culture$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$889
Median grant
States reached
$366k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$7,700
Individual grant recipient$1,494
JUANA MARCELINA SOL TUIZ$1,424
CANDELARIA RAQUEL PABLO QUIEJU$1,253
Individual grant recipient$1,169
Individual grant recipient$1,130
MARIA ELIZABETH COCHE PETZEY$1,110
Individual grant recipient$1,072
TOMAS ALVARO SIMAJ SOSOF$1,071
Individual grant recipient$1,071
JUAN PABLO RAMIREZ MENDOZA$1,065
JUANA MARIA ISABEL QUIEJU SOSOF$1,065
Individual grant recipient$1,052
HENRY ELIEZAR SAJVIN CHIVILIU$1,052
LESLY SOFIA CULAN MENDOZA$1,052
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — across the US and around the world.

Your US giving — 0% of grant dollars ($0). The 100% that went abroad ($563k) is mapped below.

Beyond the US — 100% of all-years giving ($563k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Guatemala$563k · 957 grants

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$526k · 225 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

225 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 167 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

225
58

Total granted

$526k
$25k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    8× · 2017–2024 · $43k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8k
  • LI
    LUISA ISABEL CALI TZINA
    6× · 2017–2023 · $8k

Funded once

  • JM
    JOSE MIGUEL POP IXBALAN
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
  • DA
    DIANA ALEJANDRA LETONA ESTRADA
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field
04the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 20172024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 297 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $42,543 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+199 more — $477,878 · Other+199 more
Other$520,421

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budget
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 297 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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