Texas · Private foundation
The Sparrow Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 37
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $22k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations The Sparrow Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $2.9M | 15% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $1.5M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $688k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $997k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $1.9M | 41% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $478k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illuminations Foundation Inc | $2,850,000 | 5 | 3% |
| International Justice Mission | $1,067,220 | 3 | 0% |
| Elevate USA | $716,500 | 6 | 11% |
| Northway Church | $645,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $250,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Starfish Project Incorporated | $200,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Come and See Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Redeemer City To City | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Elevate Dallas | $185,000 | 6 | 19% |
| Enright Foundational Ministries Inc | $127,500 | 3 | 9% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sparrow Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · International Generosity Foundation Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Dallas Seminary Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Love Thy Neighbor Too
How this is measured
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About The Sparrow Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Sparrow Charitable Foundation give?
- The Sparrow Charitable Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $2,927,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Sparrow Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (53%), International (18%), Education (11%).
- Who are The Sparrow Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Illuminations Foundation Inc ($2.9M), International Justice Mission ($1.1M), Elevate USA ($717k).
- Does The Sparrow Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sparrow Charitable 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sparrow Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation Inc, Servant Foundation, The Signatry Charitable Trust.
- Where is The Sparrow Charitable Foundation based?
- The Sparrow Charitable Foundation is based in TX.
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