Massachusetts · Nonprofit
LITTLE SPARKS PROJECT INC
LITTLE SPARKS PROJECT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,075 to it, the largest being ANDERSEN TAX FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LITTLE SPARKS PROJECT INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,584 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- GivenGain Foundation USAshared funderslocalportfolio match
- DCU for Kidsshared funders
- Shaughnessy Charitable Trustportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 LITTLE SPARKS PROJECT 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
LITTLE SPARKS PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 LITTLE SPARKS PROJECT INC.
“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
LITTLE SPARKS PROJECT INC draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 5 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- GivenGain Foundation USAshared funderslocalportfolio matchFL · backs 50 organizations that share your funders · funds 58 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- DCU for Kidsshared fundersMA · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- Shaughnessy Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Saxena Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yale Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Allegra C Ford-Thomas Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ray and Elaclaire Gosselin Charitable Trust C/O Debra Silbersteinportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Christopher Catanese Childrens Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John Leopold Weil & Geraldine Rickard Weil Memorial Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bear Foundation- Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- KAP 508 Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- My Child's Hand Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like LITTLE SPARKS PROJECT INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LITTLE SPARKS PROJECT INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LITTLE SPARKS PROJECT INC?
- LITTLE SPARKS PROJECT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,075 to it, the largest being ANDERSEN TAX FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITTLE SPARKS PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $23,075 in grants to LITTLE SPARKS PROJECT INC.
- Who is the largest funder of LITTLE SPARKS PROJECT INC?
- ANDERSEN TAX FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITTLE SPARKS PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing