· Private foundation
Geo L Mesker Music Uw
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| EVANSVILLE SYMPHONIC BAND INC | $10,000 |
| EVSC FOUNDATION INC | $5,500 |
| WNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INC | $5,000 |
| PATCHWORK CENTRAL | $5,000 |
| EVANSVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION INC | $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 (FY21–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- EPEVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAL5× · 2021–2025 · $59k · revenue +31%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE5× · 2020–2024 · $32k · revenue +7%
- WOWOLFGANG ORCHESTRA & CHORUS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +11% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- TATHE ARTS COUNCILone grant, 2020 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- JBJACOB BALL WISH FUNDone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
The museum's mission is to enrich lives through preservation, exploration, enlightenment and amazement.
Promote business growth and activities in evansville, indiana.
The evansville regional economic partnership serves its members and leads the region by fostering an innovative business, educational, cultural and entrepreneurial environment that excels in a global economy.
To stimulate, educate, and entertain audiences in east central indiana and to provide a meaningful musical experience for professional, community, and student musicians through the performance of quality music, education, and community…
Promotion of the theatre arts through local volunteer productions open to the general public
To help enhance southwestern indiana's culture, image, economy & quality of life through the attraction, promotion and development of family oriented and national sporting events.
The international violin competition of indianapolis (ivci) recognizes, rewards and promotes the world's finest young classical violinists and encourages understanding, appreciation and support of the violin repertoire by a large and…
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
To encourage the involvement and education of the general public in the local area in the active participation in the arts.
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra's mission as a professional orchestra is to utilize the universal expression of music to create profound, inspiring, and personal connections between the people and communities of Chicagos Southland.
To promote, encourage, support and aid the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library, its staff, and its programs.
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra inspires and unites our community through our music.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evsc Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wolfgang Orchestra & Chorus Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 16 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 EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE ↗
- Who funds Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds WOLFGANG ORCHESTRA & CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds WNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds EVSC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Patchwork Central Inc ↗
- Who funds THE REITZ HOME PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EVANSVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAMPION CENTER INC ↗
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: 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
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 Geo L Mesker Music Uw 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.