Illinois · Nonprofit
SPARK INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC
SPARK INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,963 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($9,230). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $27k
What Spark International Missions Inc does
Mission
Religious, Health, and Economic Wellness missions in Ecuador, Zambia, and the United States.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Zambia Famine Relief. Provided monthly funds to buy food for the village of Mulimba, Zambia, about 1500 people, to sustain their lives through a devastating year-long drought which killed their crops.
$4,500 spentof which $4,500 as grants8% of program spendingEcuador Mission Support. Supply funding for our Ecuadoran missionary, Dr. Manuel Issac Avila Zeas, for his support and to enable him to conduct ongoing mission work with several villages in the Andes mountains.
$21,300 spentof which $21,300 as grants40% of program spendingZambia Women Empowered Microsavings program. Supplied funding to train about 40 women and 10 men in basic business skills and budgeting. Participants then form microsavings groups to pool capaital resources to loan to each other to start businesses. We have documented a tripling of the family income through this training, raising many out of poverty. Over the past 5 years, we estimate we have benefitted about 4,000 people counting family memebers and children.
$5,631 spentof which $5,631 as grants10% of program spendingEcuador Annual Mission Trip. Expenses related to physically travel to Ecuador to conduct in-person mission work and medical clinic with our indigenous missionary. Includes costs for medical supplies and pharmecuticals. Treated about 250 patients, conducted Bible study, women's health seminar, and Vacation Bible School for about 80-100 children.
$6,045 spentof which $6,045 as grants11% of program spendingEcuador Children's Christmas Outreach. Provide funding for travel, supplies and a small gift for children in about 12-15 villages in Ecuador. About 2000 children here the Christmas story of Jesus' birth, many for the first time, and receive a small gift.
$2,200 spentof which $2,200 as grants4% of program spendingGeneral and Administrative expenses. Compliance ($25), International funds transfer fees ($289), website and domain fees ($662). Chamber of Commerce Membership Fee ($405).
$1,381 spent3% of program spendingZambia Water Project - Funded the drilling of a deep bore hole to provide clean, sustainable water supply for the village of Malimba (1500 people) in Zambia whose shallow wells ran dry during the drought.
$3,974 spentof which $3,974 as grants7% of program spendingEcuador Church Plant - Provided startup funding for an Ecuadoran Minister and his wife to start a church in the un-churched town of Alausi in Ecuador.
$4,000 spentof which $4,000 as grants7% of program spendingFinancial Support for our Zambian missionary.
$200 spentof which $200 as grants0% of program spendingProvide medical supplies and pharmacuticals to support our medical clinic ministry on the mission trip to Ecuador.
$2,851 spentof which $2,851 as grants5% of program spendingExpand our ministries into the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador to provide spiritual and health assistance.
$1,500 spentof which $1,500 as grants3% of program spendingGeneral Mission and Religious education. Provide a Right Now media subscription to allow those we serve to access online Christian and educational materials and courses.
$200 spentof which $200 as grants0% of program spending
The 12 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $53,782.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $21k to $27k (+30%).
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.
100% of SPARK INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $32 → $11k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 SPARK INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS 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
SPARK INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% 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
68% 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 SPARK INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 93% · 2023 85% — 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
68% of SPARK INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k 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
SPARK INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Illinois
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPARK INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC?
- SPARK INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,963 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($9,230). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SPARK INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $13,963 in grants to SPARK INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPARK INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $9,230 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPARK INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), 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