Ohio · Private foundation
John F and Mary a Geisse Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $581k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $62,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 37
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations John F and Mary a Geisse Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $520k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $977k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $655k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $918k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $838k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $713k | 65% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $527k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Association for a More Just Society -Us | $858,960 | 7 | 15% |
| Strategies for International Development | $365,000 | 7 | 24% |
| Cooperative for Education | $255,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Congo Leadership Initiative Inc | $210,000 | 7 | 12% |
| Educate | $200,000 | 4 | 1% |
| El Porvenir | $151,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Building Hope in the City | $128,895 | 7 | 1% |
| Water for People | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Water for Good | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lifewater Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John F and Mary a Geisse Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About John F and Mary a Geisse Foundation
- How much does John F and Mary a Geisse Foundation give?
- John F and Mary a Geisse Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $581,480 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 37 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does John F and Mary a Geisse Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (45%), Philanthropy (29%), Environment (9%).
- Who are John F and Mary a Geisse Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Association for a More Just Society -Us ($859k), Strategies for International Development ($365k), Cooperative for Education ($255k).
- Does John F and Mary a Geisse Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John F and Mary a Geisse Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John F and Mary a Geisse Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The West Foundation Inc, Marin Community Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
- Where is John F and Mary a Geisse Foundation based?
- John F and Mary a Geisse Foundation is based in OH.
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