Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
GENERATIONS UNITED INC
GENERATIONS UNITED INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,109,794 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,100,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $7.1M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Generations United Inc does
Mission
To improve the lives of children, youth and older people through intergenerational collaboration, public policies and programs for the enduring benefit for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grandfamilies projects: the organization's national center on grandfamilies works to promote policies and programs to help grandfamilies address the range of challenges they face including those related to housing, legal, education, health and mental health, family relationships, and financial issues.the grandfamilies & kinship support network is a national technical assistance center that helps government agencies and nonprofit organizations in states, tribes, and territories to collaborate and work across jurisdictional and systemic boundaries to improve supports and services for families in which grandparents, other relatives, or close family friends are raising children. Technical assistance is provided through individual, targeted help to government and nonprofit agencies; professional development programming; learning collaboratives; in-depth technical assistance; and through resources, tipsheets, toolkits, and videos which are housed in an expansive resource library on the network's website. The technical assistance center is funded through a five-year cooperative agreement with the u.s. Department of health and human services' administration for community living (acl).
$3,021,352 spentof which $721,414 as grants$646,084 earned by the program76% of program spendingPublic education: the program includes identifying best intergenerational practices, producing reports, speaking and writing, working with the media, and sharing information about the benefits of intergenerational programs, the importance of vaccinations across generations, and the need for support for grandparents raising grandchildren. In addition, the organization hosts a biennial conference that features new releases in intergenerational research, policies and practices.
$459,091 spent$34,612 earned by the program12% of program spendingIntergenerational programs: the organization supports the development and expansion of intergenerational programs bringing children, youth, and older adults together, acts as a clearinghouse for information on different types of intergenerational programs, provides technical assistance, and makes a case for local programs across the country and around the world.
$397,877 spent$74,992 earned by the program10% of program spendingSpecial projects: the organization is committed to increasing intergenerational programs and strategies to connect, support, and promote understanding across generations and often does this through special projects.
$13,105 spent$2,472 earned by the program0% of program spendingMembership services: the organization's members help promote the mission to serve all generations while elevating their visibility as an organization that impacts all ages.
$74,556 spent$65,927 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,965,981.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.7M to $3.7M (+115%).
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: 2021 21% · 2022 38% · 2023 47% · 2024 55% · 2025 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of GENERATIONS UNITED INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Joseph P Cuticelli
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $561k → $1.0M.
3 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of GENERATIONS UNITED INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
GENERATIONS UNITED INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
26% 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 GENERATIONS UNITED INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 57% · 2019 44% · 2020 30% · 2021 25% · 2022 23% · 2023 29% — 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
40% of GENERATIONS UNITED INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
GENERATIONS UNITED INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $191k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
GENERATIONS UNITED INC has grown faster than half of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GENERATIONS UNITED INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$9.9M
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 GENERATIONS UNITED INC
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GENERATIONS UNITED INC: 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 GENERATIONS UNITED INC?
- GENERATIONS UNITED INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,109,794 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,100,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GENERATIONS UNITED INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $7,109,794 in grants to GENERATIONS UNITED INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GENERATIONS UNITED INC?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GENERATIONS UNITED INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 34 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing