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LIGURE SCHOLARS INC

LIGURE SCHOLARS INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,217 to it, the largest being LIGURE CLUB INC ($15,217). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$33k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$210k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Ligure Scholars Inc does

Mission

Ligure scholars was formed to give scholarships to deserving individuals in order to assist their personal goals in completing a college education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To assist young people in their pursuit of higher education

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($33k) Expenses 100 ($8k) Net assets 100 ($137k)2018 Revenue 76 ($25k) Expenses 113 ($9k) Net assets 112 ($153k)2019 Revenue 88 ($29k) Expenses 147 ($12k) Net assets 125 ($170k)2020 Revenue 56 ($19k) Expenses 310 ($25k) Net assets 120 ($164k)2021 Revenue 70 ($23k) Expenses 206 ($17k) Net assets 125 ($171k)2022 Revenue 55 ($18k) Expenses 172 ($14k) Net assets 128 ($175k)2023 Revenue 56 ($18k) Expenses 170 ($14k) Net assets 132 ($180k)2024 Revenue 84 ($28k) Expenses 86 ($7k) Net assets 147 ($201k)2025 Revenue 101 ($33k) Expenses 298 ($24k) Net assets 154 ($210k)
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Revenue (101)Expenses (298)Net assets (154)Peer revenue range

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 $180k to $201k (+12%).

$137k
$153k
$170k
$164k
$171k
$175k
$180k
$201k
$210k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

56% of LIGURE SCHOLARS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
’17
$16k
’18
$17k
’19
−$6k
’20
$7k
’21
$4k
’22
$5k
’23
$21k
’24
$9k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $5k.

Funder
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total
Ligure Club Incunclassified
$15k
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of LIGURE SCHOLARS 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.

Where its funders are

100% of LIGURE SCHOLARS INC's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LIGURE SCHOLARS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin28% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like LIGURE SCHOLARS INC

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

58%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIGURE SCHOLARS 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 LIGURE SCHOLARS INC?
LIGURE SCHOLARS INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,217 to it, the largest being LIGURE CLUB INC ($15,217). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LIGURE SCHOLARS INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,217 in grants to LIGURE SCHOLARS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIGURE SCHOLARS INC?
LIGURE CLUB INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,217 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIGURE SCHOLARS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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