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Geomar Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $238k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA | $110,000 |
| BAR HARBOR MUSIC FESTIVAL | $25,000 |
| ALAMEDA COUNTY FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| PENINSULA COMMITTEE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UDAR | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $15,000 |
| PROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN | $12,500 |
| ANDERSON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO RICHMOND DISTRICT YMCA | $10,000 |
| RAPHAEL HOUSE | $10,000 |
| BONE MARROW AND CANCER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NATURE IN THE CITY | $10,000 |
| MANES FOR MOVEMENT | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $265k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% 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.
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.
56 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 10 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC4× · 2022–2025 · $145k · revenue +4%- PCPENINSULA COMMITTEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +18%
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK2× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- STSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +47%
- LALOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -28%
- RIRENO INITIATIVE FOR SHELTERone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the World Food Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Peninsula Committee Children's Hospital. 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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 94 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 FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA COMMITTEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds JustWorld International Inc ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
- Who funds BONE MARROW & CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Manes for Movement Inc ↗
- Who funds Anderson Valley Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds BROOKE USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE LITTLE COMPANY OF MARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT 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: California Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Geomar Foundation Inc 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.
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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