Tennessee · Nonprofit
NORMAL PARK MUSEUM MAGNET EDUCATION FUND SPARK
NORMAL PARK MUSEUM MAGNET EDUCATION FUND SPARK (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,554 to it, the largest being Lyndhurst Foundation Inc ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $278k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $149k
What Normal Park Museum Magnet Education Fund Spark does
Mission
The normal park museum magnet education fund ("spark") exists to assure that the educational needs of its students are fully met. Spark supports normal park museum magnet school ("the school") in its goal, especially in providing a full curriculum, a professional staff, targeted intervention for at-risk students, and an innovative and equitable approach to education for all. On an annual basis, spark raises money through grants, private donations, and other fundraising activities to provide financial support to the school.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization provides normal park museum magnet school support for teacher salaries, teacher professional development, educational materials, visual arts, performing arts, technology, and stem education.
$205,729 spent72% of program spendingThe organization's lightning athletic club committee offers a wide range of quality programs which will encourage and faciliate all participants to realize opportunities for championship athletic participation, physical fitness, and well being.
$20,538 spent$21,404 earned by the program7% of program spendingThe organization assists normal park museum magnet school with facilities maintenance to ensure that each student has a robust learning experience not only inside the actual classroom, but also in the outdoor classroom. Funds from the organization provide the students with outdoor educational activities and opportunities in the garden, dedicated teaching spaces, and physical structures.
$60,350 spent21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $286,617.
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 2018 to 2019, from $160k to $106k (−34%).
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.
45% of NORMAL PARK MUSEUM MAGNET EDUCATION FUND SPARK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Tiffany Phillips
Lac chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $442.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 NORMAL PARK MUSEUM MAGNET EDUCATION FUND SPARK’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
NORMAL PARK MUSEUM MAGNET EDUCATION FUND SPARK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% 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 NORMAL PARK MUSEUM MAGNET EDUCATION FUND SPARK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 88% · 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
72% of NORMAL PARK MUSEUM MAGNET EDUCATION FUND SPARK'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 $11k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k 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.
Against its field
NORMAL PARK MUSEUM MAGNET EDUCATION FUND SPARK receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $40k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NORMAL PARK MUSEUM MAGNET EDUCATION FUND SPARK
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORMAL PARK MUSEUM MAGNET EDUCATION FUND SPARK?
- NORMAL PARK MUSEUM MAGNET EDUCATION FUND SPARK (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,554 to it, the largest being Lyndhurst Foundation Inc ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORMAL PARK MUSEUM MAGNET EDUCATION FUND SPARK have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $39,554 in grants to NORMAL PARK MUSEUM MAGNET EDUCATION FUND SPARK, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORMAL PARK MUSEUM MAGNET EDUCATION FUND SPARK?
- Lyndhurst Foundation Inc 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 NORMAL PARK MUSEUM MAGNET EDUCATION FUND SPARK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 7 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