About
Built in York, PA.
For nonprofits doing the work.
Sparkle Fire Digital Studio is run by a husband-and-wife team rooted in York County. My wife runs Sparkle Fire Design Studio — custom apparel, rhinestone work, pop-up booths. She also runs The H.E.Y. Project, a 501(c)(3) that brings mental-health-informed SEL workshops into York City schools.
When her nonprofit site started getting attention, other nonprofit leaders began asking who built it. That's the question that started this studio.
I build the sites. She runs the organizations. Between us, we understand what nonprofits actually need — not a $20,000 agency project, and not a Wix template that looks like every other org on the block.
We build on Next.js. We deploy to Vercel. You own the code and the hosting. We charge fair prices because we know the budgets nonprofits work with.
We also work with mission-driven small businesses — organizations that share the same values and want a site that performs without requiring a developer on speed dial.
Fixed scope, always.
We define the project before we start it. No scope creep, no surprise invoices, no vague timelines.
Built to be owned.
Every site comes with documentation so you can use it — with or without us after launch.
Nonprofit-first. Mission-driven always.
We come from the nonprofit world. Tight budgets, small teams, high accountability — we know it.
Celeste
Founder & Project Manager · Sparkle Fire Digital Studio
Mark K.
Founder & Lead Developer · York PA Central Market
I build the sites. Every line of code, every deployment, every Launch Notes document. Before this studio, I built heyproject.org — Celeste's nonprofit — and people started asking who did it. That question became Sparkle Fire Digital Studio. I work in Next.js, deploy to Vercel, and hand clients full ownership of everything we build together.
The physical studio
sparklefiredesignstudio.com
Custom apparel and crafting business — the broader brand Sparkle Fire Digital Studio is an arm of.
The proof point: real nonprofit work that brought referrals in.
Why nonprofits (and small businesses)?
We serve nonprofits first because that's where we come from. We also take on mission-driven small businesses — organizations with purpose, not just profit. We're not generalists who added "nonprofit" to a service list. It's the work we know.