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Sprocket Mural Works Inc

Sprocket Mural Works Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,500 to it, the largest being THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES ($12,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$86k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$25k
Net assets
$182k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%
01What it does

What Sprocket Mural Works Inc does

Mission

Sprocket Mural Works is a citywide mural project that works with neighborhoods artists and organizations to create vibrant community murals across Harrisburg. Our mission is to increase community pride

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Produced twelve large-scale murals, including a painted sidewalk and

    $307,038 spent$293,750 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $307,038.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($28k) Expenses 100 ($29k) Net assets 100 ($88k)2021 Revenue 872 ($244k) Expenses 490 ($144k) Net assets 213 ($188k)2022 Revenue 73 ($20k) Expenses 123 ($36k) Net assets 195 ($172k)2023 Revenue 613 ($171k) Expenses 486 ($143k) Net assets 227 ($200k)2024 Revenue 309 ($86k) Expenses 355 ($105k) Net assets 206 ($182k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (309)Expenses (355)Net assets (206)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 2020 to 2021, from $88k to $188k (+113%).

$88k
$188k
$172k
$200k
$183k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of Sprocket Mural Works Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,230 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’20
$99k
’21
−$16k
’22
$28k
’23
−$18k
’24
21
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.

Board chair

Lex Jones

Chair Communic

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2021202220232024
Listed4889
Joined·+4+1+4
No longer listed·013
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $12k.

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Sprocket Mural Works 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

Sprocket Mural Works Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 Sprocket Mural Works Inc.

51%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% — 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

100% of Sprocket Mural Works 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Sprocket Mural Works Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,376 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−21% · below the median
Months of reserve21.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)33% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,376 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 8%Fundraising 3%

Governance

8
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Sprocket Mural Works Inc?
Sprocket Mural Works Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,500 to it, the largest being THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES ($12,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Sprocket Mural Works Inc have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $24,500 in grants to Sprocket Mural Works Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sprocket Mural Works Inc?
THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES is the largest funder on record, with $12,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sprocket Mural Works Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2 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