Funding search · EIN 880845880 · Wilmington, DE

The Ignite Foundation

Name: The Ignite Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

22
grants reported: $683,885
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $22,500
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Grant history

All 22 reported grants, largest first.

$135,000
Pelagios Kakunja Ac · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$75,000
Pelagios Kakunja Ac · 2024
Shark Conservation and Ecotourism in the Gulf of California Project Fund
$52,740
Sustainable Oceanic Research Conservation and Educ · 2023
GITA NADA MPA Expansion and Re-zonation Project
$50,000
Earth Island Institute · Berkeley, CA · 2025
For Shark Stewards Projects: Ren Hampton Media and Marketing internship and Stop the Ocean Steal campaign, and Kahu Mano (Shark Keepers) II recut, marine protected area and shark bycatch reduction film and campaign
$50,000
Silver Stallion Bicycle & Coffee Works · Gallup, NM · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$50,000
Silver Stallion Bicycle & Coffee Works · Gallup, NM · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$50,000
Earth Island Institute · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Shark Steward's Eastern Pacific Endangered Shark Protection Campaign
$41,800
Pelagios Kakunja Ac · 2023
Shark Conservation and Ecotourism in the Gulf of California Project
$27,900
Nkuringo Orphans Group · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$25,850
Earth Island Institute · Berkeley, CA · 2024
to support Shark Steward's "Kahu Mano" Film Project
$25,000
Earth Island Institute · Berkeley, CA · 2023
Shark Steward's Community Protection Program
$20,000
Associacao Kapy Da Etnia Marubo Tamawavo Do Alto R · 2025
Kapyvanaway Association and the Indigenous Legends
$19,500
Nkuringo Orphans Group · 2025
General & Unrestricted
$12,750
Nkuringo Orphans Group · 2023
General & Unrestricted
$12,000
Pelagios Kakunja Ac · 2024
General & Unrestricted
$11,605
Pelagios Kakunja Ac · 2024
General & Unrestricted (See General Explanation Attachment)
$10,000
Be Seen Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2025
Charitable Event
$8,000
Nkuringo Orphans Group · 2023
Secondary education. Scholarship Fund
$3,436
Earth Island Institute · Berkeley, CA · 2022
General & Unrestricted (SEE GENERAL EXPLANATION)
$1,904
Nkuringo Orphans Group · 2024
General & Unrestricted (See General Explanation Attachment)
$900
Nkuringo Orphans Group · 2023
Sponsorship of 2 orphans for one year
$500
Sierra Avalanche Center · Truckee, CA · 2023
General & Unrestricted

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