Oklahoma · Nonprofit
SPARROW'S NEST INC
SPARROW'S NEST INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $983,815 to it, the largest being TIM CASE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC ($790,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $269k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $984k
- Net assets
- $20k
What Sparrow's Nest Inc does
Mission
Care for orphaned and abandoned children in former ussr. Our main orphanage is located in latvia and we provide support and training to orphanages and crisis centers in surrounding countries.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The work of sparrow's nest continued through august of 2025 with the care and placement of 22 children in residence, 20 crisis families served, and 20 reunited families supported with education, material needs, and counseling. During 2025, we had the help of 32 volunteers working with children and helping with changes and repairs to our facility. In august of 2025, we saw the placement of our last child in residence. After receiving a list of requirements for upgrading our facility, including handicap accesss from the latvian social department, we were put in the position to evaluate the cost of implementing these requirements and the feasability of the work. The first step needed was to stop receiving new children and to find appropriate placement for the residential children. Any proposed work on the building to meet the requirements necessitated that the building be empty and free for the remodeling and additions. At this time, it appears that the changes to our existing facility are cost prohibitive. It is unclear whether the new architectural drawings with required changes can be approved by the regional government. For these reasons, we are now exploring the feasibility of…
$237,421 spentof which $176,988 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $237,421.
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 2019 to 2020, from $3k to $198k (+5697%).
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'S NEST INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $75k → $226k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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'S NEST 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'S NEST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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'S NEST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 86% · 2019 87% · 2020 57% · 2021 76% · 2022 89% · 2023 94% — 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
85% of SPARROW'S NEST INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SPARROW'S NEST INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SPARROW'S NEST 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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 SPARROW'S NEST 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'S NEST INC?
- SPARROW'S NEST INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $983,815 to it, the largest being TIM CASE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC ($790,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPARROW'S NEST INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $983,815 in grants to SPARROW'S NEST INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPARROW'S NEST INC?
- TIM CASE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $790,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPARROW'S NEST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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