North Carolina · Nonprofit
THE CONNIE AND RICKY SPARKS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
THE CONNIE AND RICKY SPARKS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being The Hand Foundation Inc ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $107k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $340k
What The Connie and Ricky Sparks Scholarship Foundation does
Mission
The foundation provides scholarships to graduates of hendersonville high school. The scholarships are awarded by a selection committee comprised of educators, staff and administrators of hendersonville high school.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provide scholarships to graduates of hendersonville high school.
$35,900 spentof which $34,587 as grants100% of program spendingProvide scholarships to graduates of hendersonville high school.
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,900.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $281k to $340k (+21%).
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.
87% of THE CONNIE AND RICKY SPARKS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of THE CONNIE AND RICKY SPARKS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
THE CONNIE AND RICKY SPARKS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
THE CONNIE AND RICKY SPARKS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
46%
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 THE CONNIE AND RICKY SPARKS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: 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 THE CONNIE AND RICKY SPARKS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION?
- THE CONNIE AND RICKY SPARKS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being The Hand Foundation Inc ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CONNIE AND RICKY SPARKS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to THE CONNIE AND RICKY SPARKS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CONNIE AND RICKY SPARKS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION?
- The Hand Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CONNIE AND RICKY SPARKS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 1 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