New Hampshire · Nonprofit
SPARK THE DREAM
SPARK THE DREAM (New Hampshire) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,500 to it, the largest being MANCHESTER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $66k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $79k
- Net assets
- $16k
What Spark the Dream does
Mission
To empower, inform, and engage the refugee and immigrant african community in manchester, nh through training, education, dialogue, and intergenerational socio-cultural activities to overcome obstacles hindering smooth integration in the american system.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Our mission is to empower, inform, and engage the refugee and immigrant african community in manchester, nh through training, education, dialogue, and intergenerational socio-cultural activities to overcome obstacles hindering smooth integration in the american system.
$58,630 spent99% of program spendingThe organization has 20 beehives they are going to use to be making honey to sell to the community as an income source. The individuals in the community, kids, and their families, will help with the beekeeping and will learn about how it impacts their environment and community.
$572 spent1% of program spendingThe play day project is where children come to the center and they are there with elders in the community who teach them about their history, tell them stories, and teach them cultural songs and dances. They take the children on outings to places like the park and the zoo and have the children perform at different community events as a form of outreach, to get community donations, and advertising for their program.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $59,202.
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 2021 to 2022, from $34k to $9k (−73%).
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 THE DREAM’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. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Geraldine Kirega
Executive director
Board chair
Shaunte Wilted
Interim chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $27k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of SPARK THE DREAM’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 THE DREAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 25% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 THE DREAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 40% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
SPARK THE DREAM draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside New Hampshire, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 THE DREAM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,663 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,663 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like SPARK THE DREAM
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 Hampshire
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPARK THE DREAM: 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 SPARK THE DREAM?
- SPARK THE DREAM (New Hampshire) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,500 to it, the largest being MANCHESTER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPARK THE DREAM have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $78,500 in grants to SPARK THE DREAM, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPARK THE DREAM?
- MANCHESTER COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPARK THE DREAM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), and the filings of 5 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