· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PINE FOREST FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AZULITA PROJECT INC | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC | $45,000 |
| ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| SAN MIGUEL-CASA INC | $40,000 |
| THE SEVENTH GENERATION FUND | $35,000 |
| COLORADO PLATEAU FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Geofamily Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +139%
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
82 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
- Who funds COLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Geofamily Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Geofamily Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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