· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $538k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN GIFT FUND | $830,000 |
| FIREBIRD COMMUNITY ARTS | $650,000 |
| PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING | $300,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND | $250,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND | $200,000 |
| PROPUBLICA INC | $150,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $140,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO | $80,000 |
| THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC | $75,000 |
| THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $75,000 |
| FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC | $75,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
| FIREBIRD COMMUNITY ARTS | $50,000 |
| FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $326k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 29% of The IV Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
53 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
Northwestern University9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +41%- FCFIREBIRD COMMUNITY ARTS9× · 2017–2025 · $950k · revenue +461%
- TMTHE MANAGEMENT CENTER7× · 2017–2023 · $653k · revenue +121%
Funded once
The Trustees of Princeton Universityone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +5%- NUNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY STUDENT ENRICHMENT SERVICESone grant, 2018 · $20k
- PUPRINCETON UNIVERSITY-LEWIS CENTER OF THE ARTSone grant, 2018 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pro Publica Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nassau Cooperative Nursery School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 86 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds FIREBIRD COMMUNITY ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE MANAGEMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds Penland School Of Craft ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LAND TOGETHER DBA INSIGHT GARDEN PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BAIL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVE SENTENCING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds TOWN HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEMA CHODRON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM READS INC ↗
- Who funds Kidpower of Colorado Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The IV Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Petey Greene Program Inc — 29% of income from government
- Isles Inc — 21% of income from government
- Freedom Reads Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Watershed Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.