· Private foundation
Herm and Shirley Geers 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $351k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSION INDIA | $75,000 |
| DWELLINGSNOW | $51,375 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BELLEVUE | $35,000 |
| WORLD RENEW | $30,000 |
| GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| GROWING HOPE GLOBALLY | $30,000 |
| THE GIDEONS INTERNATIONAL | $30,000 |
| RIVER TERRACE CHURCH | $25,000 |
| SISTER INDIA FUND | $25,000 |
| CONGO PEACE | $25,000 |
| HIAWATHA YOUTH CAMP | $20,000 |
| CHOSEN VISION | $16,000 |
| SET FREE CHURCH | $15,000 |
| PREBORN | $15,000 |
| THE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $325k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 18% of Herm and Shirley Geers Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 48% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 32%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 7 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CVCHOSEN VISION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $425k · revenue +25%
- WRWorld Renew9× · 2017–2025 · $210k · revenue +47%
- FOFriends of Agape7× · 2019–2025 · $152k · revenue +192%
Funded once
- AMALTERNATIVE MISSIONSDWELLINGSone grant, 2017 · $70k
- ECEASTSIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue +2%
- CRCITY RESCUE MISSIONone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Redeemer City to City (RCTC) exists to multiply churches and Christian leaders committed to a shared vision for gospel movements in the great cities of the world.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
World reach is a global, evangelical missions organization serving fields in east africa, central and south america, europe and the u.s. our purpose is to fulfill the the great commission of jesus christ by reaching the world with the…
Our mission is to accelerate the great commission by equipping leaders, developing networks, and catalyzing collaboration toward spiritual breakthroughs among the least reached peoples and places of the world.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.
Our mission is to go into all the world and preach the Gospel through all forms of media and broadcast. We are a Christian organization spreading the word of God to the ends of the earth.
We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.
How this is measured
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 60 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 CHOSEN VISION INC ↗
- Who funds World Renew ↗
- Who funds Friends of Agape ↗
- Who funds ABUNDANT LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GROWING HOPE GLOBALLY ↗
- Who funds GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds DWELLINGSNOW INC ↗
- Who funds THE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN MAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds HOLY CROSS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CALVIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CONGO PEACE ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND BAPTIST MISSION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
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: Barnabas Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Stewardship Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Servant Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Herm and Shirley Geers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herm and Shirley Geers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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