Skip to content
Geo L Mesker Music Uw at a glance

· Private foundation

Geo L Mesker Music Uw

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$161kEducation$45kHuman Services$11kPhilanthropy$5kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$5,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$749k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%LAMPION CENTER INC: $2k → 15%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$206k · 9 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$206k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+6%

Still filing today

89%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • EP
    EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $59k · revenue +31%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $32k · revenue +7%
  • WO
    WOLFGANG ORCHESTRA & CHORUS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +11% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • JB
    JACOB BALL WISH FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • TA
    THE ARTS COUNCIL
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
Evansville Museum of Arts History & Science

The museum's mission is to enrich lives through preservation, exploration, enlightenment and amazement.

Arts & Culture
2
Evansville Regional Economic Partnership Foundation

Promote business growth and activities in evansville, indiana.

—
3
Evansville Regional Economic Partnership

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.

—
4
Orchestra Indiana Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Evansville Civic Theatre Inc

Promotion of the theatre arts through local volunteer productions open to the general public

Arts & Culture
6
Evansville Sports Corporation

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.

Community Improvement
7
International Violin Competition of Indianapolis Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
9
Arts Council of Southern Indiana

To encourage the involvement and education of the general public in the local area in the active participation in the arts.

—
10
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library Foundation Inc

To promote, encourage, support and aid the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library, its staff, and its programs.

Education
12
Indiana Symphony Society Inc

The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra inspires and unites our community through our music.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evsc Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAL: $58,600 · Arts & CultureEVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRALArts Council of Southwestern Indiana Inc: $15,000 · Arts & CultureArts Council of Southwestern Indiana IncWOLFGANG ORCHESTRA & CHORUS INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureWOLFGANG ORCHESTRA & CHORUS INCTHE REITZ HOME PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $7,000 · Arts & CultureTHE REITZ HOME PRESERVATION SOCIETYEVANSVILLE SYMPHONIC BAND INCORPORATED: $50,000 · OtherEVANSVILLE SYMPHONIC BAND INCORPORATEDWNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $10,000 · OtherWNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INCPatchwork Central Inc: $9,100 · OtherPatchwork Central IncIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJACOB BALL WISH FUND: $5,000 · OtherJACOB BALL WISH FUNDTHE ARTS COUNCIL: $5,000 · OtherTHE ARTS COUNCILIndividual grant recipient: $4,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $32,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF EVA…THE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · EducationTHE PUBLIC EDUCAT…EVSC FOUNDATION INC: $9,400 · PhilanthropyEVANSVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION: $4,900 · Recreation & SportsLAMPION CENTER INC: $1,800 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$95,600Other$88,600Education$35,500Philanthropy$9,400Recreation & Sports$4,900Human Services$1,800

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 budgetEVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAL: $58,600 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $32,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetArts Council of Southwestern Indiana Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetWOLFGANG ORCHESTRA & CHORUS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetWNIN TRI-STATE PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEVSC FOUNDATION INC: $9,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPatchwork Central Inc: $9,100 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTHE REITZ HOME PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $7,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetEVANSVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION: $4,900 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLAMPION CENTER INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

The Bower-Suhrheinric…Koch Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …Evansville Endowment …Cecil a and Mabel Len…Centerpoint Energy Fo…Baird Foundation IncHenry F Koch Residual…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Fifth ThirdOH26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Geo L Mesker Music Uw funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Geo L Mesker Music Uw. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 16 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.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Geo L Mesker Music Uw’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home