California · Nonprofit
IGNITE
IGNITE (California) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,439,661 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,037,801). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $908k
What Ignite does
Mission
To build the largest, most diverse movement of young women who are ready and eager to own their political power.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ignite is a non-partisan organization that builds political ambition in young women, with a focus on those who are underserved. Ignite provides civic education, exposure to women in political leadership, hands-on training and work opportunities, and a peer network of women who support and nurture each other's aspirations for civic engagement and political leadership. Ignite serves young women (ages 14-26) in their own communities, with an emphasis on lower-income women.during fiscal year 2025 the organization accomplished the following:Ignite trained over 5,600 young women on high school and colleges across 60 campuses in the u.s. Young women saw Ignite's voter education messaging 1.4 million times during the 2024 election cycle. Over 1400 gen z women mobilized their peers to learn about voting, to register and to engage in the 2024 elections.
$1,952,899 spent$15,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,952,899.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.1M to $4.1M (+99%).
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: 2022 5% · 2023 4% · 2024 28%. 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 (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Sara Guillermo
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Anne Macdonald
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $675k → $1.3M.
29 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 82 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 9% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
64% 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 33% · 2018 22% · 2019 20% · 2020 12% · 2021 36% · 2022 11% · 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
48% of IGNITE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
IGNITE draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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's funding base is broadening — from 19 funders to 32 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 (California) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,439,661 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,037,801). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IGNITE have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $11,439,661 in grants to IGNITE, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IGNITE?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,037,801 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 California. 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 82 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