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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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Environment$1.8MEducation$937kHuman Services$595kInternational$545kFood & Nutrition$506kPhilanthropy$394kCommunity Improvement$365kHealth$349kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

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
$25,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 97% of reported assets are held in W L Gore & Associat.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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.

area typical 9%HOPI TUTSKWA PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE: $15k → 26%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $15k → 18%SISTER SONG INC: $5k → 13%CHILD HELP INC: $10k → 11%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $10k → 12%AZULITA PROJECT INC: $66k → 16%TRIBAL LINK FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%AZULITA PROJECT INC: $60k → 16%AZULITA PROJECT INC: $50k → 16%AZULITA PROJECT INC: $50k → 16%AZULITA PROJECT INC: $46k → 16%AZULITA PROJECT INC: $45k → 16%AZULITA PROJECT INC: $40k → 16%VICTIM WITNESS SERVICES FOR COCONINO COUNTY: $5k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ID
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
SD
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL
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.
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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.

Geofamily Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$6.1M · 52 repeat orgs$719k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
33

Total granted

$6.1M
$473k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+30%

Still filing today

77%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $246k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • HW
    HERO WOMEN RISING INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $532k · revenue +227% · 35% of their budget
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CAMP COLTON INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $449k · revenue +168% · 29% of their budget
  • TG
    THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $353k · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -22%
  • ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -30%
  • TL
    TRIBAL LINK FOUNDATION INC
    one 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.

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
Water Protector Legal Collective

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.

Crime & Legal
2
Rainforest Foundation Inc

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.

Environment
3
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
4
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
5
Amazon Watch Inc

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…

Environment
6
Nia Tero Foundation

Nia tero works alongside indigenous peoples to secure their guardianship of vital ecosystems. indigenous peoples are guardians of earth.(see schedule o)

Environment
7
Native Renewables Inc

To grow indigenous-led solar knowledge and solutions with hopi and din (navajo) families and communities.

Arts & Culture
8
Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initative

Empowering indigenous communities to reconnect with, regenerate, and conserve their sacred peyote medicine.

Religion
9
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
10
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians

The affiliated tribes of northwest indians is founded on the principles of unity and cooperation among indian governments and people.

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11
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
12
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Northern Arizona Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/82
Grantees still filing
55/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF CAMP COLTON INC: $448,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF CAMP COLTON…THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC: $353,000 · EnvironmentTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST…WILD ARIZONA: $186,000 · EnvironmentWILD ARIZONAEarth Guardians: $105,000 · EnvironmentEarth GuardiansOCEANA INC: $94,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA INCWILDCOAST: $85,000 · EnvironmentWILDCOASTAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $67,500 · Environment+5 more: $79,900 · Environment+5 moreFLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER: $308,450 · OtherFLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTERNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $130,000 · OtherAMERICAN LEGACY ACADEMY: $100,000 · OtherTHE POORE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $130,000 · OtherA NEW DAWN AZ: $117,000 · OtherJUBILEE JUSTICE INC: $175,000 · OtherJUBILEE JUSTICE INCTerra BIRDS: $168,000 · OtherTerra BIRDSRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $115,000 · OtherGRAND CANYON YOUTH INC: $128,000 · OtherUJIMA ADULT AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $135,000 · OtherFLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC: $135,000 · Other+46 more: $1,285,390 · Other+46 morePINE FOREST FOUNDATION INC: $209,500 · EducationPINE FOREST F…COLORADO PLATEAU FOUNDATION: $170,000 · EducationCOLORADO PLAT…FLAGSTAFF JUNIOR ACADEMY INC: $148,500 · EducationFLAGSTAFF JUN…SPIRET FOUNDATION: $85,000 · EducationSPIRET FOUNDA…HAVEN MONTESSORI CHILDRENS HOUSE INC: $60,000 · EducationHAVEN MONTESS…SAN MIGUEL-CASA INC: $50,000 · EducationSAN MIGUEL-CA…NORTHLAND PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $47,500 · EducationNORTHLAND PRE…+5 more: $74,000 · Education+5 moreHERO WOMEN RISING INC: $532,000 · InternationalHERO WOMEN…ELEVATE NEPAL INC: $120,000 · InternationalELEVATE NE…+2 more: $12,700 · InternationalAZULITA PROJECT INC: $357,000 · Human ServicesAZULITA PR…SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $198,000 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GE…TRIBAL LINK FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTEWA WOMEN UNITED: $25,000 · Human Services+4 more: $35,000 · Human Services+4 moreUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $147,000 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $57,000 · PhilanthropyLampStand Incorporated: $15,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $7,000 · PhilanthropyLOWELL OBSERVATORY: $296,971 · Science & Tech
Environment$1,418,900Other$2,926,840Education$844,500International$664,700Human Services$640,000Philanthropy$376,000Science & Tech$296,971

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 budgetHERO WOMEN RISING INC: $532,000 over 7y, 35% of budgetFRIENDS OF CAMP COLTON INC: $448,500 over 7y, 29% of budgetAZULITA PROJECT INC: $357,000 over 7y, 94% of budgetTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC: $353,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetFLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER: $308,450 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetLOWELL OBSERVATORY: $296,971 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetPINE FOREST FOUNDATION INC: $209,500 over 7y, 71% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $198,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetWILD ARIZONA: $186,000 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetJUBILEE JUSTICE INC: $175,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCOLORADO PLATEAU FOUNDATION: $170,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetTerra BIRDS: $168,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA INC: $150,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFLAGSTAFF JUNIOR ACADEMY INC: $148,500 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $147,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUJIMA ADULT AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $135,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetFLAGSTAFF SHELTER SERVICES INC: $135,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHE POORE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $130,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetGRAND CANYON YOUTH INC: $128,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetELEVATE NEPAL INC: $120,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetA NEW DAWN AZ: $117,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $115,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEarth Guardians: $105,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetFRIENDS OF FLAGSTAFFS FUTURE: $95,000 over 7y, 23% of budgetOCEANA INC: $94,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSPIRET FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 3y, 67% of budgetWILDCOAST: $85,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN ARIZONA: $75,500 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetSPRUCE ROOT INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $74,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $68,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $67,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAVEN MONTESSORI CHILDRENS HOUSE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $59,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $57,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSAN MIGUEL-CASA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetNORTHLAND PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $47,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY HEALTHCARE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN WESLEY POWELL RIVER HISTORY MUSEUM INC: $26,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetTRIBAL LINK FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFLAGSTAFF ARTS COUNCIL INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTEWA WOMEN UNITED: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPINE FOREST EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $22,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTynkertopia Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetTOLANI LAKE ENTERPRISES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBlack Mesa Trust inc: $20,000 over 3y, 2.7% 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.

  • 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.

Molly and Joseph Herman FoundationAZ53.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Geofamily Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Geofamily Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 99 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.

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