Kansas · Nonprofit
SPARKWHEEL INC
SPARKWHEEL INC (Kansas) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,883,130 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($4,000,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $9.9M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Sparkwheel Inc does
Mission
To remove barriers and provide those we serve with tools and resources they need to thrive, now and into the future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our 2024-25 impact: during the 2024-25 school year, we served schools with a combined enrollment of over 31,500 students. Through our school-wide support programs, we distributed more than 250,000 essential needs items, including food, clothing, hygiene products, school supplies, bus passes, and referrals to community resources (including crisis intervention support). Our family engagement activities reached over 8,000 family and household members, strengthening the connection between home and school. Students participated in over 30,000 instances of enrichment activities, while life skills were shared over 20,000 times. Beyond school-wide supports, we provided targeted, individual services to 3,067 caseload students, resulting in over 33,000 individual goal-related supports. Outcomes for these students include: 99% remained enrolled in school 99% were promoted to the next grade level 96% of seniors graduated 53% of graduating seniors pursued post-secondary education or military servicecaseload students with specific individual goals achieved the following: 91% improved in academics 78% improved in attendance 86% improved in behavior 96% improved in life skills 97% improved in…
$5,570,601 spent$1,328,696 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,570,601.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.0M to $5.9M (+197%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 47% · 2018 60% · 2019 50% · 2020 88% · 2021 51% · 2022 85% · 2023 67% · 2024 63% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of SPARKWHEEL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Malissa Martin
President/CEO
Board chair
Alex Delaney
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 18 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $415k → $601k.
14 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 SPARKWHEEL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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
SPARKWHEEL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 SPARKWHEEL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 52% · 2019 23% · 2020 30% · 2021 28% · 2022 85% · 2023 27% — 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.
How long its funders stay
53% of SPARKWHEEL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
58% of SPARKWHEEL INC'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 $4.1M that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Kansas, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
SPARKWHEEL INC's revenue grew 55% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SPARKWHEEL INC
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPARKWHEEL INC?
- SPARKWHEEL INC (Kansas) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,883,130 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($4,000,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SPARKWHEEL INC have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $9,883,130 in grants to SPARKWHEEL INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPARKWHEEL INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $4,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPARKWHEEL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 53 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