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SPREAD THE JOY INC

SPREAD THE JOY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,734 to it, the largest being LIGHTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC ($53,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$156k
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$190k
Net assets
$450k
7/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What Spread the Joy Inc does

Mission

To donate "joy boxes" to pediatric patients.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Organization raised funds and created "joy boxes" to give to pediatric patients. The boxes help alleviate some of the stress associated with pediatric hospitalization.

    $235,453 spent$181,885 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $235,453.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($34k) Expenses 100 ($18k) Net assets 100 ($17k)2020 Revenue 403 ($138k) Expenses 306 ($54k) Net assets 567 ($97k)2021 Revenue 202 ($69k) Expenses 455 ($80k) Net assets 501 ($86k)2022 Revenue 1246 ($427k) Expenses 684 ($121k) Net assets 2292 ($392k)2023 Revenue 1119 ($384k) Expenses 1390 ($246k) Net assets 3097 ($529k)2024 Revenue 456 ($156k) Expenses 1331 ($235k) Net assets 2634 ($450k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (456)Expenses (1331)Net assets (2634)Peer revenue range

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 $113k to $448k (+297%).

$17k
$112k
$113k
$448k
$529k
$451k
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

116% of SPREAD THE JOY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
’19
$84k
’20
−$11k
’21
$306k
’22
$138k
’23
−$79k
’24
20
months of
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.

202220232024
Listed444
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $39k.

4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 SPREAD THE JOY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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

SPREAD THE JOY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

53% 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 SPREAD THE JOY INC.

28%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 30% · 2021 40% · 2022 74% · 2023 73% — 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.

How long its funders stay

17% of SPREAD THE JOY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

SPREAD THE JOY INC draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 7 states in all.

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CO
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SPREAD THE JOY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−51% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve19.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)35% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like SPREAD THE JOY 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 Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

NJ

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPREAD THE JOY 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 SPREAD THE JOY INC?
SPREAD THE JOY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,734 to it, the largest being LIGHTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC ($53,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SPREAD THE JOY INC have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $189,734 in grants to SPREAD THE JOY INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPREAD THE JOY INC?
LIGHTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $53,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPREAD THE JOY INC find more funders?
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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 2019–2024), and the filings of 17 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