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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.

$156k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$44k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$474kPublic Benefit$223kPublic Safety & Disaster$196kHuman Services$186kRecreation & Sports$106kYouth Development$40kHousing & Shelter$25kHealth$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $99k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%NICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%SHARP LITERACY: $11k → 17%SHARP LITERACY: $10k → 17%SHARP LITERACY: $5k → 17%JOURNEY HOUSE: $5k → 17%JOURNEY HOUSE: $5k → 17%JOURNEY HOUSE: $5k → 17%JOURNEY HOUSE: $3k → 17%JOURNEY HOUSE INC: $2k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CTR: $5k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CTR: $5k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CTR: $5k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CTR: $5k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CTR: $5k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CTR: $4k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CTR: $3k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CTR: $3k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CTR: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 29 repeat orgs$131k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
22

Total granted

$1.2M
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+23%

Still filing today

41%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +45%
  • MU
    Marquette University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +46%
  • SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF ST FRANCE POLICE DEPT
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • KM
    KETTLE MORAINE SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • MF
    Milwaukee Fire Bell Club Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -44%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Milwaukee Yacht Club Foundation Inc
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2
Medical Society of Milwaukee Foundation Inc
Health
3
Mathematics Institute of Wisconsin Co Kathryn Leverenz
Education
4
The Wausaukee Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Milwaukee Jazz Festival Inc
Arts & Culture
6
Fund for Wisconsin Scholars Inc
Philanthropy
7
Eagles Nest Projects Wisconsin

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…

Education
8
Wisconsin World Affairs Council Inc
—
9
Monroe Badger Foundation Inc

Provide funds for the Univ. of Wis. Foundation.

—
10
United Seniors of Wisconsin Inc Co Cheryl McPherson
Recreation & Sports
11
Wisconsin Foundation for School Music Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
12
Milwaukee Firefighter Charitable Foundation

Partnering in local charity events, fundraising to support local nonprofits, encouraging fire education to the public, assisting families in need and providing enthusiastic volunteers.

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Casa De Esperanza Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FBI MILW CITIZENS ACADEMY: $168,900 · OtherFBI MILW CITIZENS ACADEMYST ROBERT'S SCHOOL: $163,800 · OtherST ROBERT'S SCHOOLLA CASA DE ESPERANZA INC: $125,000 · OtherLA CASA DE ESPERANZA INCMARQUETTE HIGH SCHOOL: $69,000 · OtherMARQUETTE HIGH SCHOOLCITY OF ST FRANCIS FIRE DEPT: $55,500 · OtherST LEO UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherSOUTH SHORE YACHT CLUB: $45,000 · OtherSOUTH SHORE SAILING FOUNDATION: $43,500 · OtherSOABT INC: $40,000 · OtherPIUS XI HIGH SCHOOL: $40,000 · OtherMILW FIREFIGHTERS CHARIT FDN: $37,500 · Other+30 more: $237,700 · Other+30 moreSILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $36,000 · Human ServicesSHARP LITERACY INC: $26,000 · Human ServicesNICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesJOURNEY HOUSE INC: $19,500 · Human ServicesMarquette University: $39,000 · EducationLUKE HOMAN FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · EducationWISCONSIN VFW FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Public BenefitHonor Guard Clinics and Schools Inc: $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHappy Endings No-Kill Cat Shelter: $15,500 · AnimalsWISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATI: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentWisconsin State Fair Park Foundation: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,120,900Human Services$101,500Education$61,500Public Benefit$20,000Public Safety & Disaster$20,000Animals$15,500Youth Development$12,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLA CASA DE ESPERANZA INC: $125,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH SHORE YACHT CLUB: $45,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMarquette University: $39,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $36,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSHARP LITERACY INC: $26,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLUKE HOMAN FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetWISCONSIN VFW FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNICOLE ELLIS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetJOURNEY HOUSE INC: $19,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHappy Endings No-Kill Cat Shelter: $15,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetWISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATI: $7,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMilwaukee Fire Bell Club Inc: $6,750 over 1y, 20% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACACIA THEATRE COMPANY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHEATRE OF OCONOMOWOC LTD: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 WISCONSIN VFW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Honor Guard Clinics and Schools Inc ↗
  • Who funds NICOLE ELLIS 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 ↗

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.

Herbert H Kohl Charit…Green Bay Packers Fou…United Way of Greater…Greater Milwaukee Fou…Waukesha County Commu…Baird Foundation IncGenerac Foundation IncArchdiocese of Milwau…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…Ralph Evinrude Founda…Harley-Davidson Found…Ge Aerospace Foundati…
Herbert H Kohl Charities IncWI23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Geiger Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Geiger Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Geiger Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Geiger Family Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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