How much does Four Lanes Trust give?

Four Lanes Trust reported 16 grants totaling $18,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Four Lanes Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (23%), Food & Nutrition (22%), Environment (11%).

Who are Four Lanes Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The DC Central Kitchen Inc ($13k), Jubilee Jobs Inc ($11k), Bread for the City Inc ($10k).

Does Four Lanes Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Four Lanes Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Where is Four Lanes Trust based?

Four Lanes Trust is based in DC.

Foundation Dossiers

Washington, D.C. · Private foundation

Four Lanes Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 16
Grants FY2025: 16
Organizations funded FY2024: 19%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $1,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $2,500
Organizations funded a year: 12 to 19; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $331k
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Four Lanes Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	16	$18k	19%
FY2024	16	$18k	19%
FY2023	17	$17k	29%
FY2022	12	$15k	17%
FY2021	19	$18k	37%
FY2020	13	$15k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Employment$24kFood & Nutrition$22kEnvironment$11kArts & Culture$9kEducation$8kHealth$7kYouth Development$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The DC Central Kitchen Inc	$12,500	6	0%
Jubilee Jobs Inc	$11,000	6	0%
Bread for the City Inc	$9,500	6	0%
Herring Gut Coastal Science Center	$8,000	4	2%
Washington Concert Opera	$7,000	6	0%
Good Shepherd Food Bank	$6,000	6	0%
Trekkers Inc	$5,500	6	0%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$4,500	5	0%
Hurricane Island Outward Bound School	$3,500	4	0%
LifeFlight Foundation	$3,000	2	0%

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All grantees of Four Lanes Trust by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The DC Central Kitchen Inc	$12,500	6	0%
Jubilee Jobs Inc	$11,000	6	0%
Bread for the City Inc	$9,500	6	0%
Herring Gut Coastal Science Center	$8,000	4	2%
Washington Concert Opera	$7,000	6	0%
Good Shepherd Food Bank	$6,000	6	0%
Trekkers Inc	$5,500	6	0%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$4,500	5	0%
Hurricane Island Outward Bound School	$3,500	4	0%
LifeFlight Foundation	$3,000	2	0%
Herring Gut Learning Center	$3,000	2	n/a
The Trust for Public Land	$2,750	4	0%
A Wider Circle Inc	$2,000	3	0%
Negotiation Works	$2,000	2	1%
Christ House	$2,000	4	0%
Veggies to Table	$1,500	2	0%
Federation of Neighborhood Centers	$1,500	2	0%
City Wildlife Inc	$1,500	3	0%
City Kids to Wilderness Project Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society	$1,000	1	n/a
The Matthew Harris Ornstein Memorial Foundation Inc	$1,000	2	0%
Double Trellis Food Initiative	$1,000	1	n/a
Community Forklift	$1,000	1	n/a
M Street Center	$500	1	0%
The Studio Acting Conservatory Inc	$500	1	0%
School Leader Lab	$500	1	0%
Georgetown Ministry Center	$250	1	0%
The Food Project Inc	$250	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Four Lanes Trust supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC24× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · United Way of the National Capital Area · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Onion Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Nora Roberts Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Four Lanes Trust

How much does Four Lanes Trust give?: Four Lanes Trust reported 16 grants totaling $18,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Four Lanes Trust fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (23%), Food & Nutrition (22%), Environment (11%).
Who are Four Lanes Trust's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The DC Central Kitchen Inc ($13k), Jubilee Jobs Inc ($11k), Bread for the City Inc ($10k).
Does Four Lanes Trust fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Four Lanes Trust accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Four Lanes Trust?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee.
Where is Four Lanes Trust based?: Four Lanes Trust is based in DC.