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Frank and Karen Geefay Foundation

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.

$280k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Environment$145kCivil Rights$101kInternational$83kHealth$55kFood & Nutrition$50kArts & Culture$46kPublic Benefit$40kReligion$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $89k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $191k
$8,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$588k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIAN HEALTH CENTER OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY$23,000
REMOTE AREA MEDICAL$23,000
EVERYTOWN SUPPORT FUND$20,000
SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY$20,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$20,000
THE WATERSHED RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTER$15,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$10,000
OUR CITY FOREST$10,000
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO$10,000
KQED$10,000
WE HOPE$10,000
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC MEDIA$10,000
THE OTHERING & BELONGING INSTITUTE OF UC BERKELEY$10,000
FREEDOM HUNTERS$8,000
THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP$8,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FREEDOM HUNTERS: $8k → 6%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $5k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $5k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $3k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$467k · 30 repeat orgs$298k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
26

Total granted

$467k
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
0%

Still filing today

77%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentInternationalCivil RightsEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY
    4× · 2019–2025 · $34k · revenue +128%
  • RA
    REMOTE AREA MEDICAL
    2× · 2023–2025 · $27k · revenue +109%
  • TW
    THE WATERSHED RESEARCH & TRAINING CENTER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $24k · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • WV
    WEST VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +56%
  • AL
    Asian Law Caucus
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -9%
  • IR
    INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAM- PUERTO RICO RELIEF
    one grant, 2018 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
3
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
4
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…

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5
Valley Vision

Valley vision is a civic leadership organization dedicated to improving the livability of the sacramento region. through research and action, we collaborate on bold, long-term solutions that improve people's lives.

Community Improvement
6
CalWild

The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.

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7
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
8
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
9
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
10
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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11
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
12
Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California State Parks Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Cost of Courage Foundation Org. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHospital Support and Commun…Homeless & At-Risk Support …Affordable Housing Developm…Nonprofit Capacity & Advoca…Industry & Professional Ass…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr12%27%35–55yr12%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr12%26%35–55yr12%25%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/49
the rest of the field
13%
14,757/110,110

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.

04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
26/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EVERYTOWN SUPPORT FUND — $20,000 · OtherHSINCHU IMMACULATE HEART CATHEDRAL — $19,525 · OtherCenter for Common Ground — $18,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY — $13,000 · OtherINDIAN HEALTH CENTER OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY — $23,000 · OtherINDIAN HEALTH CENTER OF SANTA CLARA VALLEYWEHOPE — $23,000 · OtherWEHOPETransformca dba Transform — $18,000 · Other+37 more — $252,180 · Other+37 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC — $30,000 · InternationalInternational Re…REMOTE AREA MEDICAL — $27,000 · InternationalREMOTE AREA MEDI…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $17,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FR…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KI…LOVE OF ORPHANS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · InternationalLOVE OF ORPHANS …HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC — $10,000 · InternationalHEART TO HEART I…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $6,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FU…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIV…ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC — $18,500 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERIC…VOTERIDERS — $17,000 · Civil RightsVOTERIDERSSPREAD THE VOTE INC — $17,000 · Civil RightsSPREAD THE V…COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS — $8,500 · Civil RightsCOALITION FO…LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF CALIFORNIA EDUCATION FUND — $3,000 · Civil RightsEARTHJUSTICE — $20,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTIC…Asian Pacific Environmental Network — $14,000 · EnvironmentAsian Pacif…PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST — $10,000 · EnvironmentPENINSULA O…SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE — $10,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE RE…OUR CITY FOREST — $10,000 · EnvironmentOUR CITY FO…SILICON VALLEY YOUTH CLIMATE ACTION — $8,000 · EnvironmentSILICON VAL…SEMPERVIRENS FUND — $5,000 · EnvironmentSEMPERVIREN…West Harlem Environmental Action Inc — $3,000 · EnvironmentKQED INC — $21,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMUWEKMA OHLONE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $34,000 · Food & NutritionTHE WATERSHED RESEARCH & TRAINING CENTER — $24,000 · EducationTHE COST OF COURAGE FOUNDATION ORG — $6,000 · EducationCUPERTINO EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Education
Other$387,205International$110,000Civil Rights$84,000Environment$80,000Arts & Culture$36,000Food & Nutrition$34,000Education$33,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $34,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREMOTE AREA MEDICAL — $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WATERSHED RESEARCH & TRAINING CENTER — $24,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN HEALTH CENTER OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY — $23,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEHOPE — $23,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKQED INC — $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC — $18,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Common Ground — $18,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTransformca dba Transform — $18,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVOTERIDERS — $17,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSPREAD THE VOTE INC — $17,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network — $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY — $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSilicon Valley Bicycle Coalition — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAsian Law Caucus — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE OF ORPHANS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetOUR CITY FOREST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INDIAN MANPOWER CONSORTIUM INC — $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND — $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS — $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSILICON VALLEY YOUTH CLIMATE ACTION — $8,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPERVIRENS FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA CLARA COUNTY ASIAN LAW ALLIANCE — $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCUPERTINO EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF CALIFORNIA EDUCATION FUND — $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBAY AREA LEGAL AID — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Harlem Environmental Action Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The David and Lucile …The William & Flora H…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The Sobrato Family Fo…The San Francisco Fou…Sunlight GivingUnited Way of the Bay…East Bay Community Fo…Tides FoundationElla Gayle Hamlin Fou…The Applied Materials…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA23.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Sunlight Giving · United Way of the Bay Area · East Bay Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Ella Gayle Hamlin Foundation Inc · The Applied Materials Foundation

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 Frank and Karen Geefay Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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