Skip to content

Pennsylvania · Private foundation

Germeshausen Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
32
Grants FY2024
35
Organizations funded FY2023
23%
First-time grantees FY2023
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2024
$21,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$185,000
Organizations funded a year
34 to 35
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
12
Total assets, FY2024
$24M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Germeshausen Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $223k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Food & NutritionEnvironmentHealthEducationPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving31$1.4M10%
FY202335$1.2M23%
FY202235$1.5M17%
FY202135$1.3M31%
FY202034$1.2Mn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Youth Development$1.3MArts & Culture$1.1MEnvironment$853kFood & Nutrition$809kReligion$488kEducation$402kInternational$337kScience & Tech$165kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
NC
SC
DC
LA
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Peace First Inc$1,260,000522%
Grist Magazine Inc$695,00054%
The Thomas Berry Foundation$465,000557%
Foodcorps Inc$375,00050%
The Full Frame Initiative Inc$315,00054%
Yale University$250,0002n/a
Gateway Horseworks$123,000315%
The Fund for Women and Girls$105,00054%
Yale University$100,0001n/a
Upstander Project Inc$100,000111%
Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Germeshausen Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPeace First Inc: $1,260,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetGrist Magazine Inc: $695,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetThe Thomas Berry Foundation: $465,000 over 5y, 57% of budgetFoodcorps Inc: $375,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Full Frame Initiative Inc: $315,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetGateway Horseworks: $123,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetThe Fund for Women and Girls: $105,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetUpstander Project Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetThe Charlie Cart Project: $90,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetFood Connect Co: $60,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetResource Renewal Institute: $60,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetRiverbend Environmental Education Center: $41,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetNature Sacred: $41,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCollege for Social Innovation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSoul Fire Farm Institute Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVital Voices Global Partnership Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPhilabundance: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWhyy Inc: $16,040 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Museum of Art: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDocumentary Educational Resources Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Parent-Infant Center: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWillistown Conservation Trust Inc: $7,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Documentary Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEcoHealth Alliance Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Orion Society Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cell Theatre Company Ltd: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCrs Learning Center: $2,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmnesty International of the USA Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Winsor School: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

Claneil Foundation IncPA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

Compare Germeshausen Foundation Inc with peer funders

About Germeshausen Foundation Inc

How much does Germeshausen Foundation Inc give?
Germeshausen Foundation Inc reported 32 grants totaling $1,555,430 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 35 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Germeshausen Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (19%), Arts & Culture (16%), Environment (13%).
Who are Germeshausen Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Peace First Inc ($1.3M), Grist Magazine Inc ($695k), The Thomas Berry Foundation ($465k).
Does Germeshausen Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Germeshausen Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Germeshausen Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Claneil Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is Germeshausen Foundation Inc based?
Germeshausen Foundation Inc is based in PA.

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 64 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Germeshausen’s filings →

More from the funding graph