Florida · Nonprofit
HERO SPARK INC
HERO SPARK INC (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,614 to it, the largest being The Yelp Foundation ($4,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $56k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Hero Spark Inc does
Mission
Hero spark believes that gaming provides multiple ways to learn, helping each individual student find the path right for him or herself. We believe that failure in a safe environment brings comfort in risk-taking, and gaming provides that safe place to fail in a stress-free environment.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Hero spark teaches kids how to learn through games and gaming. Hero spark uses strategic card and board games and creative role-playing games, infused with an eductational and social/emotional curriculum, all meant to create excitement about learning and growing, without the pressures of a school setting.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $10k to $15k (+52%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $2k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 HERO SPARK INC’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
HERO SPARK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 86% — 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
HERO SPARK INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $134 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.
Organizations like HERO SPARK 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HERO SPARK INC?
- HERO SPARK INC (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,614 to it, the largest being The Yelp Foundation ($4,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HERO SPARK INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $4,614 in grants to HERO SPARK INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HERO SPARK INC?
- The Yelp Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $4,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HERO SPARK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), 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