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Geofamily Foundation
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $806k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $765k
Anchored by a single position — about 97% of reported assets are held in W L Gore & Associat.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HERO WOMEN RISING | $125,000 |
| GRAND CANYON TRUST INC | $120,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGACY ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| LOWELL OBSERVATORY | $87,500 |
| FRIENDS OF CAMP COLTON | $65,000 |
| AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $60,000 |
| JUBILEE JUSTICE INC | $55,000 |
| FLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER | $52,500 |
| AZULITA PROJECT INC | $50,000 |
| PINE FOREST FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC | $45,000 |
| SAN MIGUEL-CASA INC | $40,000 |
| ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| GRAND CANYON YOUTH | $35,000 |
| THE SEVENTH GENERATION FUND | $35,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $442k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Geofamily Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +59% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 9 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $246k 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
- HWHERO WOMEN RISING INC7× · 2019–2025 · $532k · revenue +227% · 35% of their budget
- FOFRIENDS OF CAMP COLTON INC7× · 2019–2025 · $449k · revenue +168% · 29% of their budget
- TGTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC7× · 2019–2025 · $353k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INCone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -22%
ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INCone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -30%- TLTRIBAL LINK FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -78%
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 water protector legal collective is an indigenous-led legal nonprofit that provides support and advocacy for indigenous peoples and original nations, the earth, and climate justice movements.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…
Nia tero works alongside indigenous peoples to secure their guardianship of vital ecosystems. indigenous peoples are guardians of earth.(see schedule o)
To grow indigenous-led solar knowledge and solutions with hopi and din (navajo) families and communities.
Empowering indigenous communities to reconnect with, regenerate, and conserve their sacred peyote medicine.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
The affiliated tribes of northwest indians is founded on the principles of unity and cooperation among indian governments and people.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Northern Arizona Inc and the most unlike its peers is Conch Republic Marine Army. 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 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
82 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. 82 of the 99 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 HERO WOMEN RISING INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CAMP COLTON INC ↗
- Who funds AZULITA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOWELL OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds PINE FOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC ↗
- Who funds WILD ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO PLATEAU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Terra BIRDS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds FLAGSTAFF JUNIOR ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UJIMA ADULT AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE POORE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND CANYON YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE NEPAL INC ↗
- Who funds A NEW DAWN AZ ↗
- Who funds RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Earth Guardians ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FLAGSTAFFS FUTURE ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds SPIRET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDCOAST ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds SPRUCE ROOT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN MONTESSORI CHILDRENS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NDN COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY 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: Molly and Joseph Herman Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Geile Charitable Foundation · United Way of Northern Arizona Inc · Patagoniaorg · The Narbha Institute Inc · Impactassetsinc · Hartzell Family Foundation · Forest Highlands Foundation · Health First Foundation-Northern Arizona · Wend II Inc
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 Geofamily Foundation 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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