Sparkplug Foundation

How to apply, from its 2024 IRS return

How to ask

Online contact is needed prior to actual grant application submission. Written proposals for grant are required to be submitted. Written proposal needs to be specific-- explaning steps used to accomplish goals, persons and materials needed, especially detailing the need or issue which the grant will address. Estimated costs for the work will be required with application.

Deadlines

Application date for fall 2024 cycle: 11/04/2024

Limits on who can apply

Sparkplug Foundation makes grants only for seed money, or to launch new ideas within existing projects--there are also restictions on what type of expense which they will fund

Grants paid in 2024

$667,576, to organizations

This is what the foundation told the IRS on Form 990-PF. It isn’t a confirmed open grant round, and details may have changed, so contact the foundation before applying. Its mailing address is on the full return: see it on ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer.