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CHISPA PROJECT

CHISPA PROJECT (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $344,286 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($237,891). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$346k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$344k
Net assets
$175k
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Chispa Project does

Mission

In Spanish, "chispa" means "spark," which is exactly our goal: to inspire and empower Honduran students with access to books by creating school libraries through a community driven approach. We work directly with local Honduran leaders to bring students their first children's books and support the new libraries throughout the school year. We also provide an integral training with parents, teachers, and students for the best usage of the books to improve children's reading fluency and comprehension. Finally, we use local and international volunteers to help fund and support new libraries while facilitating intercultural opportunities within different Honduran and international communities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. New School Libraries: 13 new children's libraries installed, 3,772 students reached. Increased follow-up with school from 1 to 2 years. Continued programming with 5,500 students from 2024. Schools help fundraise as a symbolic support towards library.

    $186,778 spent$3,641 earned by the program
    62% of program spending
  2. Literacy Alliance Program (PAL) (previously "Special Programs"): We partnered with 14 organizations to help support their reading programs through books and training, donating 3,710 books.

    $43,205 spent$26,571 earned by the program
    14% of program spending
  3. Volunteer Program for international volunteers and their expenses related to the cultural exchange and volunteer work of setting up a library

    $73,167 spent$72,600 earned by the program
    24% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $303,150.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($74k) Expenses 100 ($69k) Net assets 100 ($6k)2019 Revenue 165 ($123k) Expenses 172 ($119k) Net assets 165 ($9k)2020 Revenue 169 ($126k) Expenses 133 ($92k) Net assets 768 ($43k)2021 Revenue 225 ($168k) Expenses 157 ($109k) Net assets 1814 ($103k)2022 Revenue 319 ($238k) Expenses 385 ($266k) Net assets 1316 ($74k)2023 Revenue 385 ($287k) Expenses 338 ($233k) Net assets 2259 ($128k)2024 Revenue 538 ($400k) Expenses 507 ($350k) Net assets 3143 ($178k)2025 Revenue 465 ($346k) Expenses 506 ($349k) Net assets 3088 ($175k)
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Revenue (465)Expenses (506)Net assets (3088)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $43k to $103k (+136%).

$6k
$9k
$43k
$103k
$74k
$128k
$178k
$175k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 6% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

70% of CHISPA PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,945 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’18
$4k
’19
$34k
’20
$59k
’21
−$28k
’22
$53k
’23
$50k
’24
−$3k
’25
6.0
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Sara Burkes Brakhane

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed810710
Joined·+2+1+3
No longer listed·040
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $700 → $69k.

6 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 CHISPA PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. 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

CHISPA PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

84% 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 CHISPA PROJECT.

69%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 73% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 92% — 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

84% of CHISPA PROJECT'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 $56k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 2 states.

WA
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’21
’23
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $288k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHISPA PROJECT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve6.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding CHISPA PROJECT receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24k on record.

Federal$24k
grants $24kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of State$24k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like CHISPA PROJECT

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 6%Fundraising 7%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CO

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHISPA PROJECT: 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 CHISPA PROJECT?
CHISPA PROJECT (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $344,286 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($237,891). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHISPA PROJECT have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $344,286 in grants to CHISPA PROJECT, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHISPA PROJECT?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $237,891 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHISPA PROJECT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 8 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