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Generation IV Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$81k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
15%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 18
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Generation IV Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthReligionAnimalsYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$81k14%
FY202413$81k15%
FY202313$72k23%
FY202215$81k33%
FY202116$71k50%
FY202018$73kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$108kHousing & Shelter$52kYouth Development$44kEducation$37kHuman Services$37kRecreation & Sports$34kInternational$23kReligion$20kOther$0

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Colorado Trail Foundation$34,00061%
Pope Francis Center$30,00050%
Urban Initiatives Inc$25,00030%
Zaman International$22,50050%
Inspiration Corporation$22,00060%
The Night Ministry$18,00050%
Children First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation$17,00040%
Copper Shores Community Health Foundation$16,00040%
Orchard Lake Schools Saint Mary S Prep and Polish Institue of Cultur$15,0003n/a
Refugeeone$15,00030%
Show all 24 grantees
All grantees of Generation IV Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Colorado Trail Foundation$34,00061%
Pope Francis Center$30,00050%
Urban Initiatives Inc$25,00030%
Zaman International$22,50050%
Inspiration Corporation$22,00060%
The Night Ministry$18,00050%
Children First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation$17,00040%
Copper Shores Community Health Foundation$16,00040%
Orchard Lake Schools Saint Mary S Prep and Polish Institue of Cultur$15,0003n/a
Refugeeone$15,00030%
Cascade AIDS Project$15,00030%
The Maxfund Inc$10,00020%
Return to Dirt$8,50024%
Fleece & Thank You$8,50021%
Greater Chicago Food Depository$7,50020%
Province of St Joseph of the Capuchin Order Inc$5,0001n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$5,00010%
College for Creative Studies$5,00010%
Youth Job Center Inc$5,00010%
Perfect Pair$3,500110%
Forgotten Harvest Inc$3,00010%
Henry Ford Health System$3,00010%
Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan$3,00010%
University of Michigan$2,50011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($159k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Generation IV Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Colorado Trail Foundation: $34,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetPope Francis Center: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUrban Initiatives Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetZaman International: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInspiration Corporation: $22,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Night Ministry: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChildren First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCopper Shores Community Health Foundation: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRefugeeone: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCascade AIDS Project: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Maxfund Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetReturn to Dirt: $8,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetFleece & Thank You: $8,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege for Creative Studies: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Job Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPerfect Pair: $3,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetForgotten Harvest Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHenry Ford Health System: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budget

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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 22.

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.

Arthur J Gallagher FoundationIL12.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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Find your warmest path to Generation IV Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Generation IV Charitable Trust

How much does Generation IV Charitable Trust give?
Generation IV Charitable Trust reported 14 grants totaling $81,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Generation IV Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Housing & Shelter (11%), Youth Development (9%).
Who are Generation IV Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Colorado Trail Foundation ($34k), Pope Francis Center ($30k), Urban Initiatives Inc ($25k).
Does Generation IV Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Generation IV Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Generation IV Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arthur J Gallagher Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
Where is Generation IV Charitable Trust based?
Generation IV Charitable Trust is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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