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Generational Hope Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$174k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$69k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$278kHealth$180kYouth Development$166kHousing & Shelter$88kRecreation & Sports$35kEducation$21kPublic Benefit$10kEmployment$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $69k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Renewal City Church$69,400
Roaring Adventures LLC$30,000
Iowa City Young Life$25,000
Acres of Diamonds$20,000
Cannon Beach Academy$8,000
World Concern$5,000
Community House on Broadway$5,000
The Market Project$5,000
Villiage Mission$2,500
CitiServe Cowlitz County$2,500
Transitional Youth$1,000
Mark Morris High School Foundation$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FAMILY PROMISE OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $3k → 13%Community House on Broadway: $10k → 13%Community House on Broadway: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 54% of Generational Hope Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 46%.

Generational Hope Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$693k · 9 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$693k
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+22%

Still filing today

67%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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 ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $98k · revenue +38%
  • AO
    Acres of Diamonds
    2× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +106%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +19%
  • FG
    FOUNTAIN GATEWAY CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $18k
  • CO
    CITY OF LONGVIEW
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Choose to Win Transitional Housing

Transitional Housing Services

Housing & Shelter
2
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
3
Fostering Promise

The mission of Fostering Promise is to ensure that every young person who ages out of foster care has a safe place to call home, the support of a caring mentor and the hope for a promising future.

Human Services
4
Covenant House Alaska

Covenant house alaska is part of covenant house, inc. the largest privately funded agency in the americas providing shelter and other services to homeless, runaway, and at-risk youth.

Human Services
5
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…

Human Services
6
Chosen Kingdom Builders

Social service agency 501c3 to aged out foster youth and orphans

Youth Development
7
Rr Transitional Housing
Education
8
Covenant House Georgia Inc

Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.

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9
Family Promise of Greater New Braunfels

To prevent and end homelessness for families with children and help them achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.

Human Services
10
Doors of Hope Transition Ministries

To guide homeless families and at-risk families toward self-reliance and stability through a holistic, individualized approach that includes life- skills training, mentoring and supporitive housing

Human Services
11
Community Roots Collaborative

A non-profit developer of permanent, affordable, tiny homes for the unsettled residents of Clark County, Washington.

Housing & Shelter
12
New Road Missions

We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fosterful; the most unlike its peers is Mark Morris High School Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RENEWAL CITY CHURCH: $240,900 · OtherRENEWAL CITY CHURCHIowa City Young Life: $60,000 · OtherIowa City Young LifeCITISERVE OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $18,500 · OtherFOUNTAIN GATEWAY CHURCH: $18,430 · Other+5 more: $35,500 · Other+5 moreROARING ADVENTURES INC: $180,000 · HealthROARING ADVENTURES INCAcres of Diamonds: $70,000 · HealthAcres of DiamondsYOUNG LIFE: $98,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFEFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHR…KENYA KEYS: $10,000 · EducationTHE CANNON BEACH ACADEMY: $8,000 · EducationMARK MORRIS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY: $15,000 · Human ServicesFamily Promise of Cowlitz County: $3,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERFUL: $1,000 · Human ServicesMARKET PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$373,330Health$250,000Youth Development$123,000Education$21,000Human Services$19,000Community Improvement$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROARING ADVENTURES INC: $180,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $98,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAcres of Diamonds: $70,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKENYA KEYS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBraking Cycles: $8,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CANNON BEACH ACADEMY: $8,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMARKET PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMARK MORRIS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetFamily Promise of Cowlitz County: $3,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFOSTERFUL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds ROARING ADVENTURES INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds Acres of Diamonds ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY ↗
  • Who funds KENYA KEYS ↗
  • Who funds Braking Cycles ↗
  • Who funds THE CANNON BEACH ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds MARKET PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds MARK MORRIS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Family Promise of Cowlitz County ↗
  • Who funds FOSTERFUL ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA6.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Generational Hope Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Generational Hope Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • The Cannon Beach Academy: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Generational Hope Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Generational Hope Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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