Arkansas · Nonprofit
THE SPARK FOUNDATION INC % MAX MAHLER
THE SPARK FOUNDATION INC % MAX MAHLER (Arkansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $237,205 to it, the largest being Lennox Foundation ($226,443). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $115k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $237k
- Net assets
- $108k
What The Spark Foundation Inc % Max Mahler does
Mission
Children's health and fitness. Through its disbursement of race proceeds to schools and strong community partnerships, the nonprofit has established itself as a dependable financial supporter of innovative public education projects around health and fitness through its partnership with the fayetteville public education foundation and its support of fayetteville public schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Children's health and fitness
$82,693 spent93% of program spendingChildren's health and fitness.
$6,178 spentof which $2,190 as grants7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $88,871.
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 2020 to 2021, from $66k to $106k (+61%).
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.
13% of THE SPARK FOUNDATION INC % MAX MAHLER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 held at 1 funder, grant income fell $54k → $50.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 THE SPARK FOUNDATION INC % MAX MAHLER’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
THE SPARK FOUNDATION INC % MAX MAHLER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
THE SPARK FOUNDATION INC % MAX MAHLER draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arkansas, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $762 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.
Against its field
THE SPARK FOUNDATION INC % MAX MAHLER's revenue fell 24% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE SPARK FOUNDATION INC % MAX MAHLER?
- THE SPARK FOUNDATION INC % MAX MAHLER (Arkansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $237,205 to it, the largest being Lennox Foundation ($226,443). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SPARK FOUNDATION INC % MAX MAHLER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $237,205 in grants to THE SPARK FOUNDATION INC % MAX MAHLER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SPARK FOUNDATION INC % MAX MAHLER?
- Lennox Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $226,443 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SPARK FOUNDATION INC % MAX MAHLER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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