· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CVC CENTURY VILLAGES OF CABRILLO | $300,000 |
| PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE | $300,000 |
| WORLD HELP | $201,200 |
| BIOLA UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| WORLD SPORTS | $100,000 |
| LOS ANGELES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| URBAN YOUTH WORKERS INSTUTION | $100,000 |
| LINCOLN INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| FINISHING FUND | $100,000 |
| OAK VALLEY COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| ADVENTURES IN MISSIONS | $51,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 FINISHING FUND MANAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds OAK VALLEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CLUB INSTITUTE ↗
- 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 Children Today Inc ↗
- Who funds The Bolo Project ↗
- Who funds SOLIDARITY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ignite Cultural Solutions Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ignite Cultural Solutions Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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