Our Mission

As our city continues to rebuild, the goal of SKY Fund (Sparks of Kindness Youth Fund - 501c3) to provide ongoing disaster relief to local children, ages 5 to 18, whose homes were severely damaged or destroyed in the January 2025 fires. We work by matching displaced youth with volunteer Los Angeles resident teens who grant them a "wish list" restituting lost items they have not yet been able to replace and sending them with love in a heartfelt care package. In building these bridges between fire victims and volunteers, SKY Fund also hopes to achieve a key secondary goal: alleviating the helplessness that has afflicted our young people since the fires and empowering them to use kindness and empathy to help their peers and their community overcome profound loss and rise together.

The founders of SKY Fund, Caleb Yellin and Audrey Farahnik, and the chief technology officer, Baron Shimanovsky, they brought onto their team were the lucky ones—residents of Los Angeles who live outside the fire zones. As soon as the fires broke out they knew they needed to take action to help their friends and neighbors who weren't as fortunate. After weeks of work developing their ideas, building a new charity, and creating this website, SKY Fund was born.