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Frederick Gisevius 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.

$63k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$47k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$238kEducation$167kHousing & Shelter$73kHealth$17kRecreation & Sports$10kHuman Services$6kYouth Development$5kCivil Rights$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $57k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOLY NAME OF JESUS$47,000
Loyola University of New Orleans$10,000
Notre Dame Seminary$5,000
STUART HALL SCHOOL FOR BOYS$1,000
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 (FY18–22, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%HARRY TOMPSON CENTER: $60k → 23%HARRY TOMPSON CENTER: $5k → 23%Harry Thompson Center: $4k → 23%HARRY THOMPSON CENTER: $2k → 23%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.

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$400k · 12 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
20

Total granted

$400k
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+10%

Still filing today

42%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCrime & LegalHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TH
    THE HARRY TOMPSON CENTER INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $71k · revenue +279%
  • LU
    LOYOLA UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +22%
  • FF
    FOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS
    3× · 2017–2021 · $10k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • SJ
    St Joseph Abbey Rebuild Center
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue 0%
  • OL
    OUR LADY OF THE HOLY ROSARY
    one grant, 2021 · $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
St Peter Catholic

St. Peter Catholic High School empowers students to be models of faith through Catholic spiritual formation, while providing a creative and comprehensive education in career and technical pathways.

Education
2
St John's School

See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…

3
University of Holy Cross

The university of holy cross, a catholic institution of higher learning, is an inclusive student-centered learning community focused on academic excellence and innovative teaching. rooted in the traditions of the marianites of holy cross,…

4
University of St Thomas

We are the University of St. Thomas, the Catholic University in the heart of Houston. We are committed to the Catholic intellectual tradition and the dialogue between faith and reason. By pursuing excellence in teaching, scholarship and…

Education
5
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
6
South Texas College of Law Houston Inc

South texas college of law houston provides a diverse body of students the opportunity to obtain an exceptional legal education, preparing graduates to serve their community and profession with distinction.

Education
7
St Stephen's Episcopal School

St. Stephen's Episcopal School - Houston ("St. Stephen's", "the School") nurtures each child's academic, creative, and spiritual potential.

Education
8
Centenary College of Louisiana

Provide undergraduate and graduate education in a variety of programs to approximately 600 undergraduate and 100 graduate students.

9
Isidore Newman School

Newman inspires individual growth and academic excellence within an inclusive community committed to strong relationships and high expectations.

Education
10
South City Community School

SCCS exists to be an intentionally accessible Christian school in the City of St. Louis, to provide students a feast of ideas preparing them for their next academic endeavor.

Education
11
St Joseph's Catholic School Inc

St.josephs catholic school seeks academic excellence and strives to form the minds, hearts, and souls of its students in the likeness of christ.

12
St Louis Christian College

Saint louis christian college prepares biblical servant leaders for urban, suburban, rural, and global ministry.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 33 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOLY NAME OF JESUS — $130,000 · OtherHOLY NAME OF JESUSJesuit High School — $60,000 · OtherJesuit High SchoolMANRESA HOUSE OF RETREATS — $32,000 · OtherMANRESA HOUSE OF RETREATSSt Joseph Abbey Rebuild Center — $25,000 · OtherSt Joseph Abbey Rebuild CenterCABRINI HIGH SCHOOL — $25,000 · OtherCABRINI HIGH SCHOOLUrsuline Academy Scholarship Fund — $19,210 · Other+20 more — $94,795 · Other+20 moreTHE HARRY TOMPSON CENTER INC — $71,000 · Human ServicesTHE HARRY TOMPS…LOYOLA UNIVERSITY — $35,000 · EducationGOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC — $2,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC — $12,000 · HealthFOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS — $9,600 · PhilanthropySON OF A SAINT — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $2,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$386,005Human Services$71,000Education$37,000Health$12,000Philanthropy$9,600Youth Development$5,000Crime & Legal$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE HARRY TOMPSON CENTER INC — $71,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS — $9,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTUART HALL — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSON OF A SAINT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds THE HARRY TOMPSON CENTER INC
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds FOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS
  • Who funds STUART HALL
  • Who funds SON OF A SAINT
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
  • Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC
  • Who funds Catholic Charities of Central Texas

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.

J Edgar Monroe FoundationLA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Azby Fund · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Angel Wings Foundation · Ronnie & Gwen Briggs Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Frederick Gisevius 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Frederick Gisevius Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Frederick Gisevius Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 33 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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