Illinois · Private foundation
The Generations Fund
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.
- $138k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $109k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $34,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 28
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Generations Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 23 | $98k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $103k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $113k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $77k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $93k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walking Mountains | $62,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Rush University Medical Center | $33,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Oregon Food Bank | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Colorado Mountain College Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Care for Real | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc | $9,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Interlochen Center for the Arts | $9,001 | 4 | 0% |
| ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal | $9,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $8,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) | $8,100 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($233k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Generations Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · National Philanthropic Trust · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About The Generations Fund
- How much does The Generations Fund give?
- The Generations Fund reported 26 itemized grants totaling $109,450, out of $138,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Generations Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (4%), Science & Tech (4%), Environment (4%).
- Who are The Generations Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Walking Mountains ($62k), Rush University Medical Center ($34k), Oregon Food Bank ($10k).
- Does The Generations Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Generations Fund 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 The Generations Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, National Philanthropic Trust, AbbVie Foundation.
- Where is The Generations Fund based?
- The Generations Fund is based in IL.
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