New York · Nonprofit
THE SPARK OF HUDSON FOUNDATION
THE SPARK OF HUDSON FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $481,828 to it, the largest being HUMANITY FORWARD FOUNDATION ($322,828). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $42k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $482k
- Net assets
- $-111339
What The Spark of Hudson Foundation does
Mission
The Spark of Hudson Foundation is formed for the charitable and educational purposes of promoting learning, protecting the environment, and building a strong local community. Its primary activities will be to operate a model learning lab located in hudson, new york. The lab is designed to deliver practical educational content to local residents. Offerings will be short courses and internships which allow individuals to learn skills to enter the workforce as soon as possible. Courses will include a range of subjects, including training for the health and service sectors and english for speakers of other languages.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Epic grants program providing funds for innovative programs and ideas in columbia county
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
To provide programming for residents in the city of hudson
$59,284 spent92% of program spendingTo provide assistance to local residents in obtaining passports
$165 spent0% of program spendingEpic grants program providing funds for innovative programs and ideas in columbia county
$5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $64,449.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $201k to $36k (−82%).
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 THE SPARK OF HUDSON FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 OF HUDSON 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.
How concentrated its funding is
THE SPARK OF HUDSON FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
69% 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 THE SPARK OF HUDSON FOUNDATION.
“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 OF HUDSON FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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 OF HUDSON FOUNDATION receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $482k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like THE SPARK OF HUDSON FOUNDATION
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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
32% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SPARK OF HUDSON 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 SPARK OF HUDSON FOUNDATION?
- THE SPARK OF HUDSON FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $481,828 to it, the largest being HUMANITY FORWARD FOUNDATION ($322,828). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SPARK OF HUDSON FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $481,828 in grants to THE SPARK OF HUDSON FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SPARK OF HUDSON FOUNDATION?
- HUMANITY FORWARD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $322,828 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SPARK OF HUDSON FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 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