Sparc Inc
Overview
Mission
To provide social, recreational and therapeutic services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provides over 75 programs weekly to over 1000 individuals each year in the westchester county area. Services include a wide variety of community based programs facilitating independence, functional, behavioral, and life skills. Provides diagnostic/assessment services, consultation, training, education and support to caregivers, students and families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 76% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133832725
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Headquarters
- Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 37
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.1%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.2%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.68; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.9%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.1% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $914K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $125K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 annual filings from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.