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IV Foundation

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.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$77kHealth$69kInternational$58kFood & Nutrition$48kEducation$45kPublic Safety & Disaster$36kCrime & Legal$35kHuman Services$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$829k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARLOTTE CARE CENTER$8,000
ICA FOOD SHELF$7,000
CHILDREN'S MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$5,000
CARE VICTIM SERVICES CENTER$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
SOLDIERS GROVE PUBLIC LIBRARY$5,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ICA FOOD SHELF: $7k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%ICA FOOD SHELF: $6k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $4k → 14%ICA FOOD SHELF: $6k → 11%ICA FOOD SHELF: $5k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%ICA FOOD SHELF: $5k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%ICA FOOD SHELF: $5k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%ICA FOOD SHELF: $5k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%ICA FOOD SHELF: $5k → 11%ICA FOOD SHELF: $3k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
NY
MA
MD
DC
GA
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$378k · 15 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
3

Total granted

$378k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+90%

Still filing today

47%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • IC
    INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +20%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +98%
  • CC
    CHARLOTTE COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $26k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • GG
    GLOBAL GIVING - HAWAII WILDFIRE RELIEF FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • AF
    ANGEL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +54%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +90%
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
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
2
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
3
Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education
4
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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5
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
6
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
7
Vitalant

Unite blood and biologics donors, talent, and innovation to save and improve lives.

Health
8
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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9
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
10
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
11
Corus International Inc

TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…

Human Services
12
Interact for Health

Interact for health is a foundation that works with communities to advance health justice to ensure that people in our region are healthy and thriving, regardless of who they are or where they live. more information is available on our…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Clean Air Task Force Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOLDIERS GROVE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $45,000 · OtherSOLDIERS GROVE PUBLIC LIBRARYHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $35,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYCARE VICTIM SERVICES CENTER: $35,000 · OtherCARE VICTIM SERVICES CENTERCHILDREN'S MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONCHARLOTTE COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INC: $26,000 · OtherCHARLOTTE COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INCCHARLOTTE CARE CENTER: $16,000 · OtherCHARLOTTE CARE CENTERCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $9,000 · Other+2 more: $6,000 · OtherINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $46,500 · Human ServicesINTERCONGREGATION COMMU…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $22,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red C…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $9,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $42,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FR…GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOU…CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $11,000 · EnvironmentANGEL FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Health
Other$237,000Human Services$80,500International$57,500Environment$11,000Health$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $46,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $42,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INC: $26,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds ANGEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Charlotte County Homeless Coalition Inc: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to IV Foundation?

Find your warmest path to IV 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 18 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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