Arizona · Nonprofit
Hope Ignites Phoenix
Hope Ignites Phoenix (Arizona) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,388,608 to it, the largest being VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ($2,420,882). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $765k
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Hope Ignites Phoenix does
Mission
The mission of Hope Ignites Phoenix is helping low-income, first-generation youth achieve their goal of a college education and guide them into career launch.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hope Ignites of Phoenix provides year-round out of school time academy program services, including access to private and college preparatory schools, the opportunity to develop critical skills necessary for college and career development through evidence-based learning opportunities, and a variety of access to programming throughout the community. Programs are targeted to support scholars at every age and stage, focusing on middle school, high school, and college. These services are provided in order for each scholar to maximize their potential and successfully transition into post-secondary opportunities.
$1,012,587 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,012,587.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.7M to $4.2M (+144%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7% · 2022 12% · 2023 5% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Meghann Gintz
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $252k → $781k.
11 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $14k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hope Ignites). These are real filings, and they are not money Hope Ignites Phoenix raised.
From the IRS filings of Hope Ignites Phoenix’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Hope Ignites Phoenix leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Hope Ignites Phoenix.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 34% · 2019 37% · 2020 34% · 2021 29% · 2022 82% · 2023 49% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
24% of Hope Ignites Phoenix's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
95% of Hope Ignites Phoenix's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $485k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like Hope Ignites Phoenix
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hope Ignites Phoenix: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Hope Ignites Phoenix?
- Hope Ignites Phoenix (Arizona) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,388,608 to it, the largest being VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ($2,420,882). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hope Ignites Phoenix have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $5,388,608 in grants to Hope Ignites Phoenix, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hope Ignites Phoenix?
- VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $2,420,882 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hope Ignites Phoenix find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 61 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing