Ohio · Private foundation
Katherine B Geis
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $80k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Katherine B Geis funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 13 | $80k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $70k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $117k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $67k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $74k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $40k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baldwin Wallace University | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Zanesville Concert Association % Rick Aichele | $53,500 | 2 | 49% |
| Zanesville Memorial Concert Band | $47,480 | 5 | n/a |
| The Thursday Music Club | $45,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Harding University Inc | $26,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Capital University | $23,500 | 3 | 0% |
| West Virginia Wesleyan College | $20,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Muskingum University | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Florida State University | $17,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ohio Wesleyan University | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baldwin Wallace University | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Zanesville Concert Association % Rick Aichele | $53,500 | 2 | 49% |
| Zanesville Memorial Concert Band | $47,480 | 5 | n/a |
| The Thursday Music Club | $45,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Harding University Inc | $26,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Capital University | $23,500 | 3 | 0% |
| West Virginia Wesleyan College | $20,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Muskingum University | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Florida State University | $17,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ohio Wesleyan University | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Muskingum Valley Symphonic Winds | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bethesda Hospital Association | $30 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($130k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Katherine B Geis supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
Open a dossier: Taylor-McHenry Memorial Fund · The Muskingum County Community Foundation · J William & Mary Straker Charitable Fdn
How this is measured
About Katherine B Geis
- How much does Katherine B Geis give?
- Katherine B Geis reported 13 grants totaling $80,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Katherine B Geis fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (67%), Arts & Culture (33%), Religion (0%).
- Who are Katherine B Geis's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Baldwin Wallace University ($60k), Zanesville Concert Association % Rick Aichele ($54k), Zanesville Memorial Concert Band ($47k).
- Does Katherine B Geis fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Katherine B Geis accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Katherine B Geis?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Taylor-McHenry Memorial Fund, The Muskingum County Community Foundation, J William & Mary Straker Charitable Fdn.
- Where is Katherine B Geis based?
- Katherine B Geis is based in OH.
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