Arkansas · Nonprofit
SPARKING STEAM LLC A LITTLE BIT OF HOPE
SPARKING STEAM LLC A LITTLE BIT OF HOPE (Arkansas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $158,374 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($96,314). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $153k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $158k
- Net assets
- $130k
What Sparking Steam LLC a Little Bit of Hope does
Mission
Science technology engineering arts and math
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
This event impacted 1000 elementary through high school students. Students learned to think like coders, safeguard data, and strengthen their digital citizenship skills.
$20,239 spent54% of program spendingThis challenge impacted 300 students. The program created an inclusive environment for individuals in STEM related fields to explore problem solving in real-world scenarios.
$10,568 spent28% of program spendingThe DC Immersion Event that impacted 700 k-12 students from 3 states. Students were exposed to STEAM related activities such as coding, science, technology, aviation, and drones.
$5,750 spent15% of program spendingDescribed in schedule o
$1,267 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,824.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $17k to $130k (+642%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Justin Simpson
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $52k → $66k.
5 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 SPARKING STEAM LLC A LITTLE BIT OF HOPE’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
SPARKING STEAM LLC A LITTLE BIT OF HOPE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 SPARKING STEAM LLC A LITTLE BIT OF HOPE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 39% · 2023 92% — 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
87% of SPARKING STEAM LLC A LITTLE BIT OF HOPE'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 $20k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Arkansas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $138k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like SPARKING STEAM LLC A LITTLE BIT OF HOPE
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 Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPARKING STEAM LLC A LITTLE BIT OF HOPE?
- SPARKING STEAM LLC A LITTLE BIT OF HOPE (Arkansas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $158,374 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($96,314). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SPARKING STEAM LLC A LITTLE BIT OF HOPE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $158,374 in grants to SPARKING STEAM LLC A LITTLE BIT OF HOPE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPARKING STEAM LLC A LITTLE BIT OF HOPE?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $96,314 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPARKING STEAM LLC A LITTLE BIT OF HOPE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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