· Private foundation
Germeshausen Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WGBH | $185,000 |
| PEACE FIRST | $180,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $165,000 |
| GRIST | $160,000 |
| THOMAS BERRY FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| FOOD CORPS INC | $100,000 |
| UPSTANDER PROJECT INC | $100,000 |
| GATEWAY HORSEWORKS | $91,000 |
| FULL FRAME INITIATIVE | $85,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| FOOD TANK | $60,000 |
| CHARLIE CART PROJECT | $55,000 |
| RESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| FOOD CONNECT CO | $30,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY FUND FOR WOMEN & GIRLS | $26,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
41 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k 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
Grist Magazine Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $695k · revenue +196%
FOODCORPS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $375k · revenue +11%- GHGATEWAY HORSEWORKS3× · 2022–2024 · $123k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $50k
COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +41%
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.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
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 foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
As an organization, the institute of food technologists is focusing its work in four main areas, or "roles and goals." each is wide-reaching and helps to advance our mission.steward for the profession and its community - provide learning,…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nature Sacred. 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 29 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 64 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 PEACE FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds Grist Magazine Inc ↗
- Who funds THE THOMAS BERRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOODCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FULL FRAME INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HORSEWORKS ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS ↗
- Who funds UPSTANDER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Charlie Cart Project ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE RENEWAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FOOD CONNECT CO ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATURE SACRED ↗
- Who funds RIVERBEND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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: Claneil Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Network for Good · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Germeshausen 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Upstander Project Inc — 33% of income from government
- College for Social Innovation Inc — 30% of income from government
- EcoHealth Alliance Inc — 24% of income from government
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- The Orion Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- Documentary Educational Resources Inc — 1% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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.