Sparty Foundation
Legal name: Sparty Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 990590428
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Saraland, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2513755420
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,336
- Expenses
- $6,516
- Assets
- $54,820
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER BEXLEY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JENNIFER BEXLEY (PRESIDENT)
- CLAUDETTE BRYANT (VICE PRESIDE)
- SCOTT CROLEY (ADVISOR PLAC)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Sparty Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization established to serve as a connection between our community and public education, by evaluating needs and securing resources to enrich learning inside and outside the classroom resulting in educational excellence.
What it reported doing in 2024
Our mission is to serve as a connection between our community and public education by evaluating needs and securing resources to enrich learning inside and outside the classroom resulting in educational excellence.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9.6%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 90.2%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 89.4%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.41; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 9.6% of revenue deployed · 90.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 10/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.