Texas · Nonprofit
Simple Sparrow
Simple Sparrow (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,008 to it, the largest being W D KELLEY FOUNDATION ($105,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $171k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $210k
- Net assets
- $56k
What Simple Sparrow does
Mission
Tauma-informed therapeutic care
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Individual Services: Provide an environment for individuals to receive trauma-informed therapeutic care farm programs and services including office space for counseling, the use of the care farm for therapy, and financial scholarships for individual services. 2025: 1,775 therapeutic sessions, 15 partnering licensed professionals, & 26 community partners
$79,001 spent$39,748 earned by the program58% of program spendingCommunity Outreach Programs & Services (Care farm & community events): Care farm experiences for lower income & foster/adoptive children & families, social & emotional presentations for schools & universities, conferences & speaking engagements, care farm programs/camps for at-risk children: 2025: 3112 served
$30,762 spent$18,775 earned by the program23% of program spendingSmall Groups/Educational Services: Private and group care farm visits to educate individuals about caring for living things, including themselves. This includes visiting nursing homes with small animals, private farm visits, trauma informed trainings for professionals, churches, and other small groups. 2025: 1103 served
$25,568 spent$6,258 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $135,331.
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 $37k to $53k (+44%).
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.
52% of Simple Sparrow’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
Judy Holcomb
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $6k → $89k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Simple Sparrow’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
Simple Sparrow leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 Simple Sparrow.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 69% · 2022 42% · 2023 68% — 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
100% of Simple Sparrow's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Simple Sparrow's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Simple Sparrow
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 Texas
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Simple Sparrow: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Simple Sparrow?
- Simple Sparrow (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,008 to it, the largest being W D KELLEY FOUNDATION ($105,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Simple Sparrow have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $210,008 in grants to Simple Sparrow, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Simple Sparrow?
- W D KELLEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Simple Sparrow 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), 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