Kentucky · Nonprofit
SPARROW MISSIONS INC
SPARROW MISSIONS INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,276 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($100,557). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
SPARROW MISSIONS INC has grown faster than half of the 11,253 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,253 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Incshared funders
- Carl E Bachman and Doris M Bachman Family Foundationportfolio match
- The Samaritan Project Incportfolio match
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.
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 SPARROW MISSIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $15k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 SPARROW 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
SPARROW MISSIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 SPARROW MISSIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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
92% of SPARROW 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 $16k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Kentucky, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $184k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Incshared fundersDE · backs 10 organizations that share your funders
- Carl E Bachman and Doris M Bachman Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Samaritan Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- C&G Emanuel Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Global Service Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Signs & Wonders Ministriesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dan & Jenny Coelho Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Withim Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- With God All Things Are Possibleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Perception Funding Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hedden Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Miller Family Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SPARROW MISSIONS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPARROW MISSIONS 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 SPARROW MISSIONS INC?
- SPARROW MISSIONS INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,276 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($100,557). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SPARROW MISSIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $200,276 in grants to SPARROW MISSIONS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPARROW MISSIONS INC?
- Network for Good is the largest funder on record, with $100,557 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPARROW MISSIONS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing