Texas · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF SPARE PARTS
FRIENDS OF SPARE PARTS (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,195 to it, the largest being JOHN L SANTIKOS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($8,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $164k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $111k
What Friends of Spare Parts does
Mission
To advance reuse education through the arts Spare Parts educational programs strive to advance the four pillars of sustainability environmental social economic and cultural by diverting creative materials from the waste streams offering community workshops promote a circular economy by providing access to creative reuse materials and emphasize culture and tradition through sustainable art activities to the public
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Center for Creative Reuse program facilitates the intake of pre-owned creative materials and supplies that would otherwise be thrown away or underutilized and offers them back into the community through program offerings and storefront In 2025 the Center diverted 3744360 pounds of creative reuse materials from the landfill and provided access to affordable materials to 5938 members of the public
$105,972 spent85% of program spendingSpare Parts Connect is an innovative educational program that connects businesses and organizations with the community to foster creativity sustainability and collaboration Spare Parts Connect promotes the concept of creative reuse by offering a unique opportunity for businesses and organizations to engage with their audience through hands-on activities and demonstrations Spare Parts participated in 22 events
$7,087 spent6% of program spendingEducational workshops are hosted at the Center for Creative Reuse and provide participants with hands on instruction to learn new skills with an eco-friendly or sustainable component to them helping to advance reuse and sustainability Spare Parts hosted 68 workshops in 2025 with 390 participants
$4,384 spent4% of program spendingThe Reuse Art Pantry aims to provide access to arts and craft supplies and materials to underserved community members This is funded primarily by the City of San Antonios Office of Sustainability Neighborhood Community Grant In 2025 Spare Parts partnered with 10 area organizations and provided them each with a two shelf pantry to house creative reuse materials that are free to distribute to the community members the partners serve Each month the partners all receive replenishment bundles of supplies In 2025 the Reuse Art Pantry diverted 1084 pounds of materials from the waste streams and distributed 5775 worth of materials to underserved community members Partners for 2025 include Thrive Youth Center UTSA Department of Fine and Liberal Arts Down Syndrome Association of South Texas Childrens Association for Maximum Potential CAMP Untethered Ministries Corazon Ministries Lions Field Adult and Senior Center Gill Community Center Commanders House and Senior Center Contemporary at Blue Star
$6,954 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $124,397.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $21k to $56k (+160%).
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.
2% of FRIENDS OF SPARE PARTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Margaret Peachey
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $54.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 FRIENDS OF SPARE PARTS’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
FRIENDS OF SPARE PARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
100% 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 FRIENDS OF SPARE PARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of FRIENDS OF SPARE PARTS's grant income comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $195 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.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF SPARE PARTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF SPARE PARTS
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 FRIENDS OF SPARE PARTS?
- FRIENDS OF SPARE PARTS (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,195 to it, the largest being JOHN L SANTIKOS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($8,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF SPARE PARTS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $8,195 in grants to FRIENDS OF SPARE PARTS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF SPARE PARTS?
- JOHN L SANTIKOS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF SPARE PARTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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