· Public charity
US Ignite Inc
Us ignite, inc.
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 $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
- $250k+6 grants · $9.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | $3,292,978 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,729,842 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $2,155,554 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $924,747 |
| RICE UNIVERSITY | $453,180 |
| WIRELESS RESEARCH CENTER OF NORTH CAROLINA | $292,025 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY | $102,725 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $75,720 |
| CITY OF SAN JOSE | $75,000 |
| THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY (RUTGERS) | $72,037 |
| INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE | $44,217 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE | $21,613 |
| TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY | $6,619 |
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 (FY17–20, $217k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% 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 +68% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k 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
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +110%- WMWilliam Marsh Rice University4× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +68%
- WRWIRELESS RESEARCH CENTER OF NORTH CAROLINA5× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +31%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLNone grant, 2020 · $299k
ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INCone grant, 2022 · $234k · revenue -30%- KTKEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIESone grant, 2022 · $230k
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 george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
Internet2 promotes the missions of its members by providing both leading-edge network capabilities and unique partnership opportunities that together facilitate the development, deployment and use of revolutionary internet technologies.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Enterprise Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lehi Area Chamber of Commerce Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 71 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 NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds WIRELESS RESEARCH CENTER OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds DIGITALC ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER COUNTY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds KC DIGITAL DRIVE INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIBRARIES WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds THE ENTERPRISE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds ONWARD EUGENE ↗
- Who funds FACTORY TWO INC ↗
- Who funds LEHI AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds COMPUTERS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER DALLAS TAIWANESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 US Ignite Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Onward Eugene — 1% of income from government
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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