· Public charity
US Ignite Inc
Us ignite, inc.
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 $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 |
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 (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 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 +68% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +28%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLNone grant, 2020 · $299k
ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INCone grant, 2022 · $234k · revenue -30%- KTKEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIESone grant, 2022 · $230k
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 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.
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 71 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.
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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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization US Ignite Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from US Ignite Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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