Illinois · Nonprofit
IGNITE
IGNITE (Illinois) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,381,022 to it, the largest being ARIE AND IDA CROWN MEMORIAL ($1,200,000). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.9M
- Funders on record
- 95
- Grants received
- $8.4M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Ignite does
Mission
To build community, hope, and opportunity for youth who are homeless by addressing their immediate needs and helping them achieve independence and stable housing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential programs - the bronzeville youth shelter is an emergency shelter for minor youth, ages 14-17, that provides a safe and healing environment with a goal to reunite these youth with their families or guardians, if safe and appropriate, or to secure alternative living arrangements. Belfort house is a transitional living program for youth, ages 17-23, where residents stay for up to 18 months and create individual actions plans to help them achieve their goals, while they move toward attaining autonomy, employment, and their own housing. Cassa is the agency's independent living program for youth ages 18-24, where adults live in their own apartments for up to two years while still maintaining access to case management and supportive services, with the goal of taking over the apartment lease as the two year limit expires.
$2,650,667 spentof which $243,132 as grants$48,084 earned by the program79% of program spendingOutreach, prevention, and aftercare - these programs meet the immediate basic needs of youth and provide crisis intervention while connecting youth with community resources, including the full complement of Ignite services. Clients range in age from 12-24 and can access crisis counseling, case management, referrals and access to a range of support services via 24/7 hotline, street and community outreach, the agency's drop-in center and aftercare services.
$585,497 spent17% of program spendingSupportive services - all youth connected to Ignite receive whole health counseling, education, access to an on-site mental health clinician. And referrals for primary and preventative care, mental health, substance abuse counseling, and more education support resources and academic assessments are provided on site. Youth receive individualized attention, advocacy, encouragement, study skills, tutoring, and referrals to alternative and/or traditional schools and programs. The employment program supports youth who have limited job skills and work history with an intensive porgram to develop job readiness. Youth with more significant work experience are offered guidance in job searches, placement, and retention. The agency also offers recreation activities to help young people identify healthy, positive outlets, develop interpersonal skill, self-esteem, and purpose as they transition to independent adults.
$110,561 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,346,725.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 $5.6M to $4.9M (−11%).
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: 2017 52% · 2018 50% · 2020 50% · 2021 59% · 2022 48% · 2023 43% · 2024 49% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of IGNITE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Stephanie Piccirilli
President and CEO
Board chair
R Delacy Peters Jr
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $172k → $1.4M.
16 of 95 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of IGNITE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 95 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
IGNITE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
47% 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 IGNITE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 31% · 2019 29% · 2020 18% · 2021 52% · 2022 16% · 2023 14% — diversifying over time.
“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
36% of IGNITE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
76% of IGNITE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Against its field
IGNITE has grown faster than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding IGNITE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$5.4M
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.6M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like IGNITE
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IGNITE: 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 IGNITE?
- IGNITE (Illinois) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,381,022 to it, the largest being ARIE AND IDA CROWN MEMORIAL ($1,200,000). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IGNITE have?
- IRS filings report 95 organizations giving $8,381,022 in grants to IGNITE, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IGNITE?
- ARIE AND IDA CROWN MEMORIAL is the largest funder on record, with $1,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IGNITE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 95 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing