California · Nonprofit
CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE
CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE (California) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,847,525 to it, the largest being JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION ($8,054,632). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Civic Ventures Dba Cogenerate does
Mission
CoGenerate was founded 26 years ago to change cultural expectations for the years beyond 50 and encourage older people to apply their skills to second acts for the greater good. We now focus on what the vast and growing older population can do in collaboration with younger people to solve today's most pressing problems. We believe intergenerational collaboration -- what we call cogeneration -- is an essential and effective strategy to forge bonds across differences, combat polarization and ageism, and bring all generations skills and talents to bear on our nation's most pressing problems. Our mission today is to bring older and younger people together to solve problems, bridge divides, and co-create the future.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
We grow the pattern - by catalyzing social innovation. We support innovators bringing generations together for mutual benefit and social impact. Programs include Campus CoGenerate, Faith Across Generations, the CoGen Voices Fellowship, and a program that strengthens youth leadership and democracy through intergenerational collaboration.
$809,101 spentof which $50,000 as grants45% of program spendingWe show the pattern - to increase awareness of age segregation and lift up the benefits of age diversity. We work as a thought leader and catalyst to tell new stories about older and younger generations working together. We write books and essays, sponsor research, partner with media, speak out, and hold virtual and in-person events.
$690,215 spent39% of program spendingWe accelerate the pattern - by building the field. We identify, elevate, diversify and connect leaders of all ages working to bring generations together and advance the strategy of cogeneration.
$291,905 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,791,221.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $8.9M to $5.1M (−43%).
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.
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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Susan Gianinno
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $1.3M → $991k.
12 of 33 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 33 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.
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; 64% give in more than one year at all.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is 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.
Against its field
CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE is better cushioned than half of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- 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
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE?
- CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE (California) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,847,525 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 33 organizations giving $18,847,525 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 33 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing