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FIRSTSPARK INC

EIN 20-1421876 NEWPORT NEWS, VA

Revenue 2024
$5,195,462
Expenses 2024
$5,149,815

Program services were 98.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B21
Classification
1000
Street
11832 CANON BLVD STE F

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • JACE BRADY

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • VICKI BURNETTE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CARLTON ASHBY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • SHARDELL GERALD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • LORI WALL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DASHANA KEMP-GARNETT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • LAKISHA LEEKS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CLEON LONG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • SENATOR MONTY MASON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • KATE WOLFE MAXLOW

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DAVETTA RINEHART

    BOARD GOV CMTE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • ROBERTA THAYER-SMITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • RAJAKA TUCKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • RACHELLE VO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • EDITH WHITE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • ANTHONY MIGUEL GUAJARDO

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • AMBER LEMPKE

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • REV DR TODD DAVIDSON

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • JAMILIA SHIPMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DIANE UMSTEAD

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - ENDED 12/24

    Total calculated
    $102,548
    From this org
    $99,493
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,055
    Hours/week
    40

  • TRESSELL CARTER

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - ENDED 09/25

    Total calculated
    $13,346
    From this org
    $13,346
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,195,462
    Expenses
    $5,149,815
    Contributions
    $5,189,700
    Grants paid
    $3,192,516
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,262,883
    Expenses
    $5,315,349
    Contributions
    $5,255,457
    Grants paid
    $3,340,366
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,163,135
    Expenses
    $4,064,111
    Contributions
    $4,148,973
    Grants paid
    $2,148,994

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.