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.

John F and Mary a Geisse Foundation

John F and Mary a Geisse Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

John F and Mary a Geisse Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$581k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$63k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

International$2.5MPhilanthropy$1.6MEnvironment$497kReligion$133kScience & Tech$95kEducation$87kHuman Services$49kArts & Culture$36kOther$0

02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k14 grants · $29k
$10k–50k7 grants · $155k
$50k–250k7 grants · $398k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
VANGUARD CHARITABLE	$10,000
STIFEL CHARITABLE FUND	$10,000
MERCY SHIPS	$10,000
THE ANDY FUND	$7,880

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.9M · 36 repeat orgs$266k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.9M

$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+28%

Still filing today

56%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalEducationReligionHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

AF
ASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US
7× · 2019–2025 · $859k · revenue +227%
SF
STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
7× · 2019–2025 · $365k · revenue +82%
CF
COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION
6× · 2019–2025 · $255k · revenue +3%

Funded once

LI
LIFEWATER INC
one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -92%
CA
COVA AGUA
one grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue 0%
BT
BUILDING TOMORROW INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +60%

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.

04Its field

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.

Devworks International

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.

Human Services

Christianity Today International

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.

Religion

International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International

International Leadership Institute

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…

Religion

Water to Thrive

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

International

Fielding Graduate University

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.

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Yours Humanly

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…

Education

Counterpart International Inc

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…

International

Inclusive Development International

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…

International

Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science

International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International

Accion International

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…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; 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.

04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 91 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

57/58

Grantees still filing

42/58

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,591,318International$2,073,160Philanthropy$323,770Education$308,274Religion$130,595Community Improvement$100,000Environment$61,000

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.

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.

The West Foundation IncIN20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John F and Mary a Geisse Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John F and Mary a Geisse Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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