Texas · Private foundation
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 FY2024(still arriving)
- 72
- Grants FY2024
- 76
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $889
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $7,700
- Organizations funded a year
- 76 to 166
- FY2017 to FY2023
- Total assets, FY2024
- $366k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations The Sparks Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 72 | $70k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 76 | $56k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 98 | $62k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 110 | $53k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 136 | $57k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 160 | $61k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 166 | $107k | 30% |
| FY2017 | 139 | $96k | n/a |
67% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Education$335kReligion$11kArts & Culture$1kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest grants in FY2024.
| 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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,071 |
| TOMAS ALVARO SIMAJ SOSOF | $1,071 |
| JUANA MARIA ISABEL QUIEJU SOSOF | $1,065 |
| JUAN PABLO RAMIREZ MENDOZA | $1,065 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,052 |
| JUANA JEMIMA RAMIREZ AJUCHAN | $1,052 |
| SOFIA MAGDALENA COO LACAM | $1,052 |
About The Sparks Foundation
- How much does The Sparks Foundation give?
- The Sparks Foundation reported 72 grants totaling $69,923 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 76 and 166 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 (60%), Religion (2%), Arts & Culture (0%).
- Does The Sparks Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sparks Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Where is The Sparks Foundation based?
- The Sparks Foundation is based in TX.
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