· Private foundation
John F and Mary a Geisse Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $398k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY | $62,500 |
| ASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY | $60,000 |
| IDE | $60,000 |
| WATER FOR GOOD | $60,000 |
| COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION | $55,000 |
| STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT | $50,000 |
| HEALING WATERS | $50,000 |
| EL PORVENIR | $40,000 |
| CONGO LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE | $35,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND | $30,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $20,000 |
| STIFEL CHARITABLE FUND | $10,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $10,000 |
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE | $10,000 |
| THE ANDY FUND | $7,880 |
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 (FY19–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 8 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
- AFASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US7× · 2019–2025 · $859k · revenue +227%
- SFSTRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT7× · 2019–2025 · $365k · revenue +82%
- CFCOOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION6× · 2019–2025 · $255k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- LILIFEWATER INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -92%
- CACOVA AGUAone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue 0%
- BTBUILDING TOMORROW INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +60%
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.
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
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.
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Water to Thrive transforms lives in rural Africa by working with partners and beneficiaries to bring the blessing of clean, safe water, connecting communities in need with supporters who have the heart and spirit to make a difference
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Yours Humanly (YH) transforms the lives of children in need around the world by providing access to quality education and equitable resources. Through its two flagship initiatives, Coloring Futures and Bridging Gaps, YH has completed 34…
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
Inclusive Development International supports communities around the world to defend their rights and resources in the face of harmful corporate activities and internationally financed development projects, and we advocate for a more just…
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…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Encouragement Inc. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 91 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 ASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds CONGO LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Educate ↗
- Who funds EL PORVENIR ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds WATER FOR PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds WATER FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds LIFEWATER INC ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COVA AGUA ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND ↗
- Who funds BUILDING TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds HORSE NATION INC DBA FREE REIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON BEACH TREE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN OF GRACE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN ↗
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: The West Foundation Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · In His Steps Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Stone Family Foundation · Give Lively Foundation Inc · McNabb Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment 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 John F and Mary a Geisse Foundation 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.
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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