GET LIT WORDS IGNITE INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A70

Classification

1200

Street

672 S LA FAYETTE PARK PL STE 10

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• OUR NEW CREATIVE SUITE OF PROGRAMS INCLUDE: FILM LAB, CREATIVE CAMP, AND CREATIVE CAREER LAB (CCL). FILM LAB IS A YEAR-LONG PROGRAM FOR OUR HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH WEEKLY WORKSHOPS IN ALL ASPECTS OF FILMMAKING. EACH SEMESTER, THE CLASS IS BROKEN INTO 4 WEEKS OF PRE-PRODUCTION, 4 WEEKS OF PRODUCTION, AND 4 WEEKS OF POST-PRODUCTION. GUESTS AND MENTORS FOR FILM LAB HAVE INCLUDED REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE WGA, MONKEYPAW PRODUCTIONS, LIONSGATE, TOLLIN PRODUCTIONS, ARTISTS FIRST, AND AWARD-WINNING CINEMATOGRAPHERS, DIRECTORS, AND LIGHTING TECHNICIANS. CREATIVE CAREER LAB (CCL) IS A YEAR-LONG JOB TRAINING PROGRAM IN CREATIVE FIELDS THAT CULMINATES IN PARTICIPANT PLACEMENT IN PAID FULL-TIME JOBS WITH OUR ENTERTAINMENT AND NONPROFIT PARTNERS. PARTICIPANTS RECEIVE PROFESSIONAL-LEVEL TRAINING, PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT, 1 ON 1 MENTORSHIP, AND JOB PLACEMENT. IT ALSO INCLUDES FINANCIAL AND MEDIA LITERACY TRAINING; "SOFT" SKILLS SUCH AS COMMUNICATION, TEAMWORK, AND PROFESSIONALISM; CAREER PLANNING; AND INVALUABLE NETWORKING. GET LIT RECEIVED A MAJOR GRANT FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR SUPPORT OF THE CREATIVE CAREER LAB. OUT OF 30 STATEWIDE RECIPIENTS OF THE CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT'S CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT GRANT (CALCRG), WE ARE THE ONLY ARTS ORGANIZATION GRANTEE, AND ONE OF ONLY FIVE WHO RECEIVED THE FULL $3M GRANT OVER 3 YEARS.

  Expenses $957,760

• OUR PROGRAMS SPAN FROM CLASSROOM TO CAREER INCLUDING TRAINING IN HIGH-DEMAND FIELDS, LEADING TO LIFE-CHANGING CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIES, INTERNSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND JOBS. THEY INCLUDE: IN-SCHOOL PROGRAM: OUR ROBUST CURRICULA FOR THE CLASSROOM ENGAGE STUDENTS IN THE DEEP STUDY AND PERFORMANCE OF CLASSIC/CONTEMPORARY POEMS COMBINED WITH THE CREATION AND PERFORMANCE OF ORIGINAL RESPONSE POEMS. THE PROGRAM INCLUDES UNI(VERSE), OUR PIONEERING INTERACTIVE LITERACY AND POETRY PLATFORM FOR THE CLASSROOM; CORE PROGRAMMING: FREE WEEKLY POETRY AND PERFORMANCE WORKSHOPS, OPEN MICS; CLASSIC SLAM: OUR ANNUAL TEEN POETRY COMPETITION; GET LIT PLAYERS: AWARD-WINNING TEEN PERFORMANCE TROUPE; AND OUR NEW CREATIVE SUITE OF PROGRAMS, DESCRIBED BELOW.

  Expenses $420,208

• IN 2024-25, WE TAUGHT THE GET LIT CURRICULA TO 6,000 STUDENTS. IN ADDITION, WE SERVED 1,600 YOUTH WITH OUR VARIOUS AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS, FOR A TOTAL OF 7,600 YOUTH DIRECTLY SERVED. THESE YOUTH ARE FROM DIVERSE COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT GREATER LOS ANGELES, INCLUDING STUDENTS IN GRADES 4-12, YOUNG ADULTS IN EARLY COLLEGE OR CAREER EXPLORATION, AND TRANSITION AGE YOUTH AGING OUT OF THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM. 85% OF THESE STUDENTS ARE FROM UNDER-RESOURCED AREAS AND ENROLLED IN TITLE I SCHOOLS, AND 92% ARE STUDENTS OF COLOR. 48% OF STUDENTS IDENTIFY AS FEMALE WITH 95 LANGUAGES SPOKEN ACROSS OUR STUDENT POPULATION. WE REACHED AN ADDITIONAL 50,000 YOUTH THROUGH ALL PROGRAMS, SERVICES, AND PERFORMANCES, SUCH AS WITH OUR GET LIT PLAYERS' ASSEMBLIES.THE CLASSIC SLAM COMPETITION IS THE CULMINATION OF OUR IN-SCHOOL PROGRAM. OUR 14TH ANNUAL CLASSIC SLAM HELD IN MAY 2025 HAD 240 STUDENT COMPETITORS AND A LIVE COMMUNITY AUDIENCE OF 3,000 AT THE L.A. THEATRE CENTER (QUARTER- AND SEMI-FINALS) AND DYNASTY TYPEWRITER (FINALS). JUDGES INCLUDED WELL-KNOWN ACTRESS FIVEL STEWART, AWARD WINNING ARTIST ILL CAMILLE, PRODUCER TYLER COLE, BLAIR GREEN OF NBC/UNIVERSAL, AND KORYN FRYE-FUINTES OF NETFLIX.

  Expenses $344,088

• OUR TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INCLUDES OUR ANNUAL DAY-LONG POETIC CONVERGENCE, IN WHICH TEACHERS ARE TRAINED IN GET LIT'S METHODS AND PHILOSOPHY, AND IN HOW TO EFFECTIVELY USE OUR UNIQUE CURRICULUM. THE 2024 POETIC CONVERGENCE WAS HELD IN SEPTEMBER AT GET LIT'S HEADQUARTERS IN KOREATOWN. IT FEATURED POETRY TEACHING WORKSHOPS BY POETS/EDUCATORS MARLENE CARTER AND BRENDAN CONSTANTINE, AND A KEYNOTE ON HOW TO HELP STUDENTS FIND THEIR AUTHENTIC VOICE BY ROGER LOVE, ONE OF THE WORLD'S LEADING AUTHORITIES ON VOICE.CREATIVE CAMP IS A MONTH-LONG EXPERIENCE IN WHICH STUDENTS LEARN THE PRINCIPLES OF CINEMATOGRAPHY, SOUND RECORDING, EDITING, AND OTHER ELEMENTS OF VISUAL STORYTELLING THROUGH THEIR INTERPRETATION OF POEMS FROM GET LIT'S ANTHOLOGY. EACH PARTICIPANT PRODUCES A SHORT FILM, MIXTAPE, OR SPOKEN-WORD PERFORMANCE, DEPENDING ON THEIR FOCUS IN THE PROGRAM.

  Expenses $428,264 · Revenue $233,070

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $2,471,417

  Expenses

  $2,837,298

  Contributions

  $2,229,124

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,640,555

  Expenses

  $3,106,879

  Contributions

  $2,398,416

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,640,555

  Expenses

  $3,106,879

  Contributions

  $2,398,416

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $3,748,086

  Expenses

  $2,730,854

  Contributions

  $3,477,544

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,322,954

  Expenses

  $2,153,641

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,330,397

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,004,144

  Expenses

  $1,390,965

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,179,514

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,261,377

  Expenses

  $1,223,334

  Assets (EOY)

  $560,959

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,206,805

  Expenses

  $1,235,685

  Assets (EOY)

  $397,115

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,206,905

  Expenses

  $1,228,942

  Assets (EOY)

  $394,614

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,131,584

  Expenses

  $1,103,160

  Assets (EOY)

  $424,150

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $929,954

  Expenses

  $877,056

  Assets (EOY)

  $392,334

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $835,099

  Expenses

  $713,975

  Assets (EOY)

  $338,705

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $596,710

  Expenses

  $554,496

  Assets (EOY)

  $218,923

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $492,447

  Expenses

  $379,924

  Assets (EOY)

  $174,733

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $1,018,500

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION

  $500,000

  2023 · IN SUPPORT OF PROGRAMS IN FURTHERANCE OF NBA FOUNDATION'S MISSION

• TIDES FOUNDATION

  $200,000

  2022 · QUALITY EDUCATION

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $175,000

  2024 · CULTURE & ARTS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $128,000

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

  $100,000

  2024 · General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes

• TIDES FOUNDATION

  $100,000

  2023 · QUALITY EDUCATION

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $78,100

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $70,100

  2022 · EDUCATION

• GENESIS MOTOR AMERICA FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2024 · Grant to arts programming at the community level for youth

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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