Texas · Private foundation
The Sparks Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $13M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations The Sparks Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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 | 11 | $1.1M | 45% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $271k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $890k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $668k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $335k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $352k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $415k | 80% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $115k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Public Policy Foundation | $1,407,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Midland Memorial Foundation | $551,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Young Life | $500,000 | 3 | 0% |
| High Sky Childrens Ranch Inc | $303,250 | 4 | 1% |
| Senior Life Midland Inc | $301,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Midland Classical Academy | $205,250 | 3 | 2% |
| America First Policy Institute Inc | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
| America First Works Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Communio Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Christians Engaged | $35,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($280k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Sparks Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Abell-Hanger Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Beal Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Permian Basin Area Foundation · The Paul J Williams Foundation · Warren Charitable Foundation · United Way of Midland Inc · The Fasken Foundation · Fmh Foundation · The Henry Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About The Sparks Foundation Inc
- How much does The Sparks Foundation Inc give?
- The Sparks Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $1,072,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Sparks Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (38%), Human Services (20%), Health (14%).
- Who are The Sparks Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Texas Public Policy Foundation ($1.4M), Midland Memorial Foundation ($552k), Young Life ($500k).
- Does The Sparks Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sparks Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sparks Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Abell-Hanger Foundation, Christian Community Foundation Inc, Beal Foundation.
- Where is The Sparks Foundation Inc based?
- The Sparks Foundation Inc is based in TX.
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