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Who pays for this

Sponsors & partners.

Sparkden is free for every teenager on it. No plan, no card, no trial that runs out. That only works because somebody else is covering the bill. These are the people doing it, and the organizations working next to us.

  • Registered 501(c)(3), EIN 42-2930302
  • Every organization here links to its own site
  • None of them gets a say in what a student builds
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Sponsors

We do not have a headline sponsor and we are not going to dress one up. What we have is specific: an organization covering a specific cost so that a student does not.

Kitani logo

Kitani

Model access

Kitani runs open models like Qwen, Llama, GLM and MiMo on a serverless, OpenAI-compatible API. They provide the model access behind the AI tools on Sparkden, which is why those tools cost a student nothing to use.

kitani.ai
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Grants

Parts of what Sparkden runs on are paid for by grant and credit programs. A grant is not a sponsorship and not an endorsement. These organizations fund the work. They do not direct it, and they have no say in what any teenager here builds.

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Partners

Partners are not sponsors. Nobody on this list pays for Sparkden. They are organizations working the same problem from their own side, most of them run by students, and we share programs, members and whatever each of us has already worked out so the next group does not have to.

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What sponsoring gets you

No naming rights over a teenager's project, and no say in what they build. Here is what we can actually offer.

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    A receipt that counts

    The Spark Forward Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3), EIN 42-2930302. Gifts are tax-deductible and every one gets a receipt.

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    Reporting for your board

    Tell us what you need to show and we will put the numbers behind it: students served, projects deployed, and where the money actually went.

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    Credit on your terms

    Your name and logo go here with a link out. If your program would rather not be listed, tell us and you will not appear on this page at all.

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    The real updates

    You hear what teenagers shipped with your support, in their words and with their permission.

Want your name up here?

Cash, cloud credits, dev-tool seats, mentor hours. All of it turns into the same thing: a kid with an idea gets to put it on the internet. A human reads every message.

Donate to the Foundation Email support@sparkden.org

Already give through a program that would rather stay off this page? Say so and we will keep it off.