New York · Nonprofit
SPARK MICROGRANTS INC
SPARK MICROGRANTS INC (New York) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,765,602 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,452,406). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.7M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Spark Microgrants Inc does
Mission
Spark microgrants empowers communities to work together to create a world where everyone lives with dignity and determines their own positive future.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Spark believes in the collective power of people. Yet too often, communities facing poverty are sidelined by the very programs meant to uplift them. Spark updates the development model, from prescriptive to community-led, so that every village can define their own future. Spark's key innovation the facilitated collective action process, or fcap pairs a village planning process with a seed grant to facilitate cooperative solutions to poverty. Research shows that the fcap results in families doubling the meals they eat and a sevenfold increase in women engaging in leadership roles. More than 80 percent of communities create inclusive village councils that last. Since 2010, spark has reached more than 500,000 people in eight countries, including through its flagship program with the government of rwanda. Over the next three years, spark will accelerate its impact by scaling the national program in rwanda and expanding to two new countries, producing new research on community-led development, and curating a global community of practice. Today, spark trains partner organizations and works with governments to scale the fcap as the system of choice to advance social and economic…
$5,975,696 spentof which $1,935,293 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,975,696.
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 2021 to 2022, from $6.6M to $16M (+136%).
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: 2021 47% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of SPARK MICROGRANTS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Alexandra Fisher
Executive director and co-founder
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $686k → $5.0M.
13 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 MICROGRANTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
SPARK MICROGRANTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
37% 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 MICROGRANTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 27% · 2019 32% · 2020 28% · 2021 27% · 2022 31% · 2023 54% — growing more concentrated.
“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
42% of SPARK MICROGRANTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
SPARK MICROGRANTS INC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 MICROGRANTS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SPARK MICROGRANTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Agency for International Development$1.3M
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 SPARK MICROGRANTS INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Spark Microgrants Malawi · corp_trust
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPARK MICROGRANTS INC?
- SPARK MICROGRANTS INC (New York) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,765,602 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,452,406). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPARK MICROGRANTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $18,765,602 in grants to SPARK MICROGRANTS INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPARK MICROGRANTS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,452,406 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPARK MICROGRANTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 38 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