North Carolina · Nonprofit
IGNITE CHANGE
IGNITE CHANGE (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,771 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $107k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $155k
What Ignite Change does
Mission
Ignite Change equips vulnerable youth and caregivers in Northern Uganda with practical vocational skills, savings training, and holistic support to build sustainable livelihoods and strengthen families. Per our founding documents, "The purpose of Ignite Change is: * To provide affordable and quality education that prepares students to live successful lives * To help families of orphan and vulnerable children develop sustainable income generating activities * To assist with other needs in the community such as vocational training, life skills, and healthcare as needed
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Rise Above Poverty program provided structured savings group training, financial literacy, business skills development, and mentorship to caregivers, primarily women, across two parishes in Northern Uganda. During the reporting year, 142 participants completed the seven-month training cycle. Four savings groups were facilitated by trained community coaches. By graduation, over 60% of participants had started or expanded small businesses. Collectively, the groups accumulated more than $1,500 in savings. Participants increased household income stability and strengthened financial resilience for their families.
$21,399 spent34% of program spendingIgnite Change operated a hands-on vocational training institute (VTI) serving youth ages 16-22 in Northern Uganda. During the reporting year, 52 students were enrolled in carpentry and joinery, building and construction, garment design, and motorcycle mechanics. Students received practical technical instruction, entrepreneurship training, life skills education, and mentorship support. The institute expanded facilities and introduced additional training modules to enhance workforce readiness. Students completed practical projects and developed marketable skills enabling them to pursue employment or self-employment opportunities.
$41,117 spent66% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $62,516.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $41k to $98k (+138%).
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.
94% of IGNITE CHANGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Emily Johns
Executive Director
Board chair
Fred Hathaway
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $150 → $10k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 CHANGE’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 CHANGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 CHANGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 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
77% of IGNITE CHANGE'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. Of the $4k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 CHANGE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like IGNITE CHANGE
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
36%
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 CHANGE: 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 CHANGE?
- IGNITE CHANGE (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,771 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does IGNITE CHANGE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $19,771 in grants to IGNITE CHANGE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IGNITE CHANGE?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IGNITE CHANGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 5 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