California · Private foundation
The IV 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.
- $4.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $830,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations The IV Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $333k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $2.8M | 15% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $1.4M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $1.2M | 3% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $943k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $868k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $858k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $757k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $485k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern University | $1,671,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Firebird Community Arts | $950,000 | 9 | 11% |
| The Management Center | $653,000 | 7 | 1% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $650,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting | $600,000 | 2 | 2% |
| American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio Foundation Inc | $533,600 | 8 | 8% |
| The Marshall Project Inc | $475,000 | 9 | 1% |
| American Foundation for Suicide Prevention | $393,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Penland School Of Craft | $326,000 | 3 | 4% |
| The Innocence Project Inc | $284,400 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 60 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The IV 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: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Frank J Ryan and Jane E Ryan Family Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Tides Foundation · Sipprelle Charitable Corp
How this is measured
About The IV Fund
- How much does The IV Fund give?
- The IV Fund reported 56 grants totaling $4,078,550 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The IV Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (33%), Arts & Culture (14%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
- Who are The IV Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northwestern University ($1.7M), Firebird Community Arts ($950k), The Management Center ($653k).
- Does The IV Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The IV 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 IV Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc, The Hyde and Watson Foundation.
- Where is The IV Fund based?
- The IV Fund is based in CA.
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