North Carolina · Nonprofit
5 SPARROWS
5 SPARROWS (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,000 to it, the largest being WACCAMAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2018
- $195k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $65k
- Net assets
- $50k
What 5 Sparrows does
Mission
5 Sparrows works against human trafficking through direct partnerships with law enforcement and victim services organizations; predominately through the provision of direct services, critical resources, and pathways for healing and restoration to human trafficking victims. This organization conducts six primary sub-missions, which are integrated into three main programs: providing direct services to human trafficking victims and support recovery, assisting law enforcement and justice system, changing the status quo.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Program
Provide direct assistance to law enforcement (le) and justice system. Specific accomplishments: 1. Supported multiple le-led human trafficking operations to enhance le capability and capacity to identify and pursue human trafficking perpetrators. 2. Conducted monthly human trafficking task force meetings with district attorney and le partners to collaborate on all human trafficking cases. 3. Provided service to district attorney's office as victim witness coordinators to support human trafficking cases. 4. Provided language interpreter/translator support to le to support human trafficking efforts. Objectives: 1. Ensure every human trafficking case is aggressively and collaboratively pursued by the three key parties: le, district attorney, and service provider. 2. Ensure le maintains the capacity and capability to effectively investigate, charge, and complete all human trafficking cases.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income held at $25k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 5 SPARROWS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
5 SPARROWS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund 5 SPARROWS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 80% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
92% of 5 SPARROWS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
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In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 5 SPARROWS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 5 SPARROWS?
- 5 SPARROWS (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,000 to it, the largest being WACCAMAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does 5 SPARROWS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $65,000 in grants to 5 SPARROWS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 5 SPARROWS?
- WACCAMAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 5 SPARROWS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2018 (financials across 2018–2018), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing