California · Private foundation
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.
- $4.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $556k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Ignite Cultural Solutions Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 27 | $4.5M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $2.0M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $1.2M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $1.8M | 42% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $826k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $837k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $188k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biola University Inc | $1,222,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Pathways to Independence | $1,200,000 | 4 | 21% |
| Long Beach Rescue Mission | $705,000 | 5 | 4% |
| World Help | $503,800 | 5 | 1% |
| World Sports Inc | $500,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Los Angeles Christian School | $300,000 | 3 | 9% |
| The Center for Faithwalk Leadership | $300,000 | 3 | 29% |
| Bethany Church | $159,000 | 5 | n/a |
| World Impact Inc | $145,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Adventures in Missions Inc | $126,000 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ignite Cultural Solutions Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
Compare Ignite Cultural Solutions Foundation with peer funders
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About Ignite Cultural Solutions Foundation
- How much does Ignite Cultural Solutions Foundation give?
- Ignite Cultural Solutions Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $4,460,040 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Ignite Cultural Solutions Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (23%), Education (22%), Housing & Shelter (21%).
- Who are Ignite Cultural Solutions Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Biola University Inc ($1.2M), Pathways to Independence ($1.2M), Long Beach Rescue Mission ($705k).
- Does Ignite Cultural Solutions Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ignite Cultural Solutions Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ignite Cultural Solutions Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Long Beach Community Foundation, Orange County Community Foundation, Bess J Hodges Foundation.
- Where is Ignite Cultural Solutions Foundation based?
- Ignite Cultural Solutions Foundation is based in CA.
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