Ohio · Private foundation
Geo L Mesker Music Uw
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $43k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 7
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $749k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Geo L Mesker Music Uw funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 5 | $41k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $45k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $39k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $52k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $22k | 80% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $34k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evansville Philharmonic Orchestral | $58,600 | 5 | 1% |
| Evansville Symphonic Band Incorporated | $50,000 | 5 | n/a |
| University of Evansville | $32,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Wolfgang Orchestra & Chorus Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 31% |
| Wnin Tri-State Public Media Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Evsc Foundation Inc | $9,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Patchwork Central Inc | $9,100 | 4 | 2% |
| The Reitz Home Preservation Society | $7,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Jacob Ball Wish Fund | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evansville Philharmonic Orchestral | $58,600 | 5 | 1% |
| Evansville Symphonic Band Incorporated | $50,000 | 5 | n/a |
| University of Evansville | $32,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Wolfgang Orchestra & Chorus Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 31% |
| Wnin Tri-State Public Media Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Evsc Foundation Inc | $9,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Patchwork Central Inc | $9,100 | 4 | 2% |
| The Reitz Home Preservation Society | $7,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Jacob Ball Wish Fund | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Public Education Foundation Inc | $3,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Lampion Center Inc | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Geo L Mesker Music Uw supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Fifth Third · Koch Foundation Inc · Community Foundation Alliance Inc · Evansville Endowment Fund Inc · Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Henry F Koch Residual Trust Co Fifth Third · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Geo L Mesker Music Uw
- How much does Geo L Mesker Music Uw give?
- Geo L Mesker Music Uw reported 6 grants totaling $43,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Geo L Mesker Music Uw fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (68%), Education (19%), Human Services (5%).
- Who are Geo L Mesker Music Uw's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Evansville Philharmonic Orchestral ($59k), Evansville Symphonic Band Incorporated ($50k), University of Evansville ($32k).
- Does Geo L Mesker Music Uw fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Geo L Mesker Music Uw accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Geo L Mesker Music Uw?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Fifth Third, Koch Foundation Inc, Community Foundation Alliance Inc.
- Where is Geo L Mesker Music Uw based?
- Geo L Mesker Music Uw is based in OH.
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