California · Nonprofit
IGNITE ARTS & STEM INC
IGNITE ARTS & STEM INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,180 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $96k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $23k
What Ignite Arts & STEM Inc does
Mission
Ignite Arts & STEM empowers underrepresented BIPOC youth in Greater Los Angeles by providing equitable access to arts education, STEM mentorship, scholarships, and professional development opportunities that remove financial and systemic barriers to academic and career success. Through our comprehensive programsincluding art mentoring and exhibitions, STEM professional development, scholarship awards, and community resource fairswe invest in the next generation of diverse leaders, innovators, and creatives. Our mission is to ignite pathways to higher education and career advancement by connecting talented youth with mentors, resources, and opportunities that cultivate their artistic and technical skills, build confidence, and foster long-term economic mobility. We serve students who face disproportionate barriers to accessing quality arts and STEM programming, ensuring that talent and potentialnot zip code or economic circumstancedetermine opportunity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Ignite Arts & STEM provides financial assistance to underrepresented BIPOC youth pursuing higher education in arts and STEM fields. In 2024, we awarded scholarships to deserving students, reducing financial barriers to postsecondary education.
$13,361 spent15% of program spendingOur signature Igniting Ideas: Emerging Artists Exhibition program provides 30 BIPOC youth with professional art mentorship, exhibition opportunities, and material stipends of $600-$1,200 per participant. Students receive portfolio development, exhibition preparation, and networking opportunities with arts professionals. In 2024, we provided $62,500 in donated art supplies and technology (Meta Ray-Bans, Blick gift cards).
$44,537 spent50% of program spendingAnnual community resource fair providing 300+ families with backpacks, school supplies, food assistance, and access to health/social services. In 2024, we distributed $24,400 in donated goods (backpacks and bulk food items) to underserved families.
$13,361 spent15% of program spendingProfessional development mentoring program connecting BIPOC youth with STEM professionals. Participants receive career guidance, technical skill development, and industry exposure. The program includes stipends of up to $1,000 per participant for materials and professional development activities.
$17,814 spent20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $89,073.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $13k to $36k (+182%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6 → $39.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 ARTS & STEM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 ARTS & STEM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ARTS & STEM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of IGNITE ARTS & STEM INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 IGNITE ARTS & STEM INC
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 ARTS & STEM INC: 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 ARTS & STEM INC?
- IGNITE ARTS & STEM INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,180 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does IGNITE ARTS & STEM INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $30,180 in grants to IGNITE ARTS & STEM INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IGNITE ARTS & STEM INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IGNITE ARTS & STEM INC 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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