Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SpArc Services
SpArc Services (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,900,398 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,745,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.3M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $19M
What SpArc Services does
Mission
To provide day programming services that will assist people to learn skills in order to live independently.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Client participation support and neurodiversity in the workplace: client participation support includes vocational training and cultural arts. Vocational training prepares participants for employment by giving them the opportunity to acquire and learn workplace skills. Counseling and job coaching is provided for jobs in shipping, packaging and assembly, environmental and janitorial services. The program also offers participants to be a part of a relationship group that focuses on developing social skills. The cultural arts program contains a dynamic curriculum that includes art, music, theater, ceramics and movement classes that fosters creativity and the discovery of a personal voice. Outings to cultural venues, collaborations with other artists, and partnerships with like-minded organizations, round out a program that focuses on self-expression and opportunities for community involvement. The neurodiversity in the workplace program provides professional training to people with autism and inclusive hiring practices for companies accross the nation.
$4,617,108 spent56% of program spendingUniquesource and employment partners: program participants are placed in jobs located in state operated photo license centers, along with various community employers. Job coaching and monitoring is provided for all program participants.
$3,087,178 spent$3,669,927 earned by the program37% of program spendingCommunity supports (in home services): gives program participants the opportunity to explore the community and make connections by providing important life and social skills to live more independently, such as transportation training, opportunities for social interactions, and relationship building.
$569,854 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,274,140.
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 2020 to 2021, from $13M to $18M (+35%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 70% · 2018 74% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 12% · 2023 49% · 2024 54% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of SpArc Services’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Nofre Vaquer
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Micheal WEingram
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $5k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 SpArc Services’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 funders by total. 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
SpArc Services leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 SpArc Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 53% · 2020 93% · 2021 98% · 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.
How long its funders stay
0% of SpArc Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
95% of SpArc Services'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 $155k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SpArc Services receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2.9M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SpArc Services receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SpArc Services
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Sparc Philadelphia · exempt
- The Arc of Philadelphia · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SpArc Services: 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 SpArc Services?
- SpArc Services (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,900,398 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,745,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SpArc Services have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,900,398 in grants to SpArc Services, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SpArc Services?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,745,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SpArc Services find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 11 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