California · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $23,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $588k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Frank and Karen Geefay Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 29 | $280k | 55% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $56k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $38k | 73% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $70k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $76k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $114k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $40k | 86% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $91k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $34,000 | 4 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Remote Area Medical | $27,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Watershed Research & Training Center | $24,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wehope | $23,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley | $23,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kqed Inc | $21,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Earthjustice | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Center for Common Ground | $18,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($176k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Frank and Karen Geefay Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
How this is measured
About Frank and Karen Geefay Foundation
- How much does Frank and Karen Geefay Foundation give?
- Frank and Karen Geefay Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $280,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Frank and Karen Geefay Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (19%), Civil Rights (13%), International (11%).
- Who are Frank and Karen Geefay Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Second Harvest of Silicon Valley ($34k), International Rescue Committee INC ($30k), Remote Area Medical ($27k).
- Does Frank and Karen Geefay Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Frank and Karen Geefay Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Frank and Karen Geefay Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
- Where is Frank and Karen Geefay Foundation based?
- Frank and Karen Geefay Foundation is based in CA.
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