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Ignite Cultural Solutions Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $149k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+6 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINSTON SCHOOL | $750,000 |
| 49ER FOUNDATION | $696,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $666,670 |
| LONG BEACH RESCUE MISSION | $540,000 |
| PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE | $300,000 |
| CVC CENTURY VILLAGES OF CABRILLO | $300,000 |
| WORLD HELP | $201,200 |
| BIOLA UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| URBAN YOUTH WORKERS INSTUTION | $100,000 |
| FINISHING FUND | $100,000 |
| LOS ANGELES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| WORLD SPORTS | $100,000 |
| OAK VALLEY COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| LINCOLN INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS | $51,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BUBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +15%
- PTPATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE4× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +38%
- LBLONG BEACH RESCUE MISSION5× · 2020–2024 · $705k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- MMMEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +58%
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +18%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICSone grant, 2018 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the Los Angeles Bible Training School is to come alongside of local churches to train the people of God in a systematic study of the word of God to do the work of God to the glory of God.
We are a catalyst that informs, activates, and connects community leaders to more meaningfully serve Long Beach.
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
Los Angeles Team Mentorings (LATM) mission is to guide middle school students growing up in challenging urban environments to recognize and reach their full potential. See Schedule O for more details.
The los angeles leadership academy prepares urban elementary and secondary students to succeed in college or on chosen career paths, to live fulfilling, self-directed lives, and to be effective in creating a just and humane world.
Theology Grad School Offering Interfaith and Ecumenical Degree Programs, MDIV, MA, DMIN and PHD.
To improve academic and personal success for at-promise youth through collaboration and innovative approaches to mentoring and learning.
The Workforce Development Board promotes workforce development activitieswhich connect Los Angeles jobseekers and youth to training, workforce preparedness and employment opportunities. Facilitates placing youth into private,public &…
The purpose of the school is to maintain a kindergarten, primary, secondary, and college preparatory school for boys and girls, and to instruct, discipline, train, and educate in all studies.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Expand opportunities available to underresourced individuals in the city of long beach
The los angeles business council, labc, serves the los angeles community by providing public education, awareness to community issues, advocacy of sustainable development, workforce housing and business development.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Medical Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Oak Valley College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds World Help ↗
- Who funds WORLD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAITHWALK LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds CITY TO CITY SOCAL ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CLUB INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FINISHING FUND MANAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds OAK VALLEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS DE LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds The Edwin & Dorothy Baker Foundation ↗
- Who funds Tommy Spaulding Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUND ↗
- Who funds SOLIDARITY ↗
- Who funds Children Today Inc ↗
- Who funds The Bolo Project ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Long Beach Community Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Bess J Hodges Foundation · Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation · California Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Gordon and Ruth Dougherty Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Keesal Young & Logan Charitable Foundation · The Rudolph J & Daphne a Munzer Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Gates Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ignite Cultural Solutions Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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