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CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE

CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,837,525 to it, the largest being JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION ($8,054,632). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.8M
Revenue FY2024
32
Funders on record
$19M
Grants received
$4.6M
Net assets
21/32 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE is better cushioned than half of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−195% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve10.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.0M) Expenses 100 ($6.2M) Net assets 100 ($8.1M)2018 Revenue 141 ($4.2M) Expenses 98 ($6.1M) Net assets 77 ($6.3M)2019 Revenue 125 ($3.7M) Expenses 68 ($4.2M) Net assets 71 ($5.8M)2020 Revenue 244 ($7.3M) Expenses 78 ($4.9M) Net assets 101 ($8.2M)2021 Revenue 162 ($4.8M) Expenses 78 ($4.8M) Net assets 101 ($8.2M)2022 Revenue 177 ($5.3M) Expenses 83 ($5.1M) Net assets 102 ($8.3M)2023 Revenue 193 ($5.8M) Expenses 95 ($5.9M) Net assets 100 ($8.2M)2024 Revenue 60 ($1.8M) Expenses 86 ($5.3M) Net assets 57 ($4.6M)
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Revenue (60)Expenses (86)Net assets (57)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2021 10% · 2022 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

83% of CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,013 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.2M
17
$1.9M
18
$470k
19
$2.4M
20
$1k
21
$130k
22
$171k
23
$3.5M
24
11
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $1.3M → $991k.

11 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $10M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Civic Ventures Dba Cogenerate). These are real filings, and they are not money CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE raised.

From the IRS filings of CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

36% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE.

43%
largest funder
75%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 47% · 2019 38% · 2020 51% · 2021 57% · 2022 74% · 2023 35%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

32% of CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 7 states in all.

NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
AZ
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 32 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $306k on record.

Federal$306k
grants $306kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Corporation for National and Community Service$306k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 9%Fundraising 7%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

68%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NY
CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE?
CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,837,525 to it, the largest being JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION ($8,054,632). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE have?
IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $18,837,525 in grants to CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE?
JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,054,632 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 32funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing