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Geiger Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $99k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH SHORE SAILING FDN | $43,500 |
| ST ROBERT'S SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| LA CASA DE ESPERANZA | $10,000 |
| MILW FIREFIGHTERS CHARIT FDN | $10,000 |
| ST LEO UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| HAPPY ENDING NO KILL CAT | $10,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIV LAW SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| MARQUETTE HIGH SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| CATHOLIC MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| PIUS XI HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| LUKE HOMAN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MILWAUKEE BASEBALL CLUB INC | $5,000 |
| SOABT INC | $5,000 |
| DIVINE SAVIOR HOLY ANGELS HS | $3,000 |
| NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
LA CASA DE ESPERANZA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +45%- MUMarquette University9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +46%
SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- KMKETTLE MORAINE SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $10k
- COCITY OF ST FRANCE POLICE DEPTone grant, 2021 · $10k
- MFMilwaukee Fire Bell Club Incone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -44%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Eagles Nest Projects Wisconsin is a nonprofit educational organization whose primary purpose is to inspire and educate youth through hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs focused on aviation. The…
Provide funds for the Univ. of Wis. Foundation.
To promote and perpetuate music education in the schools of wisconsin and to assist in carrying out the educational and charitable purposes of the wisconsin school music association.
Partnering in local charity events, fundraising to support local nonprofits, encouraging fire education to the public, assisting families in need and providing enthusiastic volunteers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Casa De Esperanza Inc and the most unlike its peers is Happy Endings No-Kill Cat Shelter. 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.
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 28 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
18 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. 18 of the 53 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 LA CASA DE ESPERANZA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE YACHT CLUB ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHARP LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds LUKE HOMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Honor Guard Clinics and Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN VFW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Happy Endings No-Kill Cat Shelter ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATI ↗
- Who funds Milwaukee Fire Bell Club Inc ↗
- Who funds Wisconsin State Fair Park Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Generac Foundation Inc · Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace 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 Geiger Family Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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