New York · Nonprofit
SPARKYOUTH NYC INC
SPARKYOUTH NYC INC (New York) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,264,998 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($480,565). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 77
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Sparkyouth NYC Inc does
Mission
Sparkyouth nyc, inc. (the organization), is a nonprofit organization that ignites growth in community-based programs to expand opportunities for the young people of new york city.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Through a variety of fundraising efforts, sparkyouth nyc, inc. Made grant distributions to the member organizations comprising sparkyouth nyc, inc.'s 9th edition.in addition, sparkyouth nyc, inc. Assisted our member organizations by providing robust professional and technical assistance - such as strategic planning, impact evaluation, and leadership development - to help organizations build their infrastructure, increase sustainability, and expand to reach more young people.
$1,693,466 spentof which $1,065,275 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,693,466.
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 $1.2M to $1.7M (+44%).
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.
27% of SPARKYOUTH NYC INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Mary Suzy Myers Jackson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $143k → $496k.
11 of 77 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $114k from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way Miami Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SPARKYOUTH NYC INC raised.
From the IRS filings of SPARKYOUTH NYC INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 77 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
SPARKYOUTH NYC INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
57% 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 SPARKYOUTH NYC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 24% · 2019 25% · 2020 17% · 2021 22% · 2022 20% · 2023 20% — 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.
How long its funders stay
41% of SPARKYOUTH NYC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
56% of SPARKYOUTH NYC 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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
SPARKYOUTH NYC INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SPARKYOUTH NYC 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
29%
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 SPARKYOUTH NYC INC: 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 SPARKYOUTH NYC INC?
- SPARKYOUTH NYC INC (New York) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,264,998 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($480,565). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SPARKYOUTH NYC INC have?
- IRS filings report 77 organizations giving $3,264,998 in grants to SPARKYOUTH NYC INC, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPARKYOUTH NYC INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $480,565 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPARKYOUTH NYC 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 77 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing