· Private foundation
Katherine B Geis
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE THURSDAY MUSIC CLUB | $15,500 |
| BALDWIN WALLACE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $11,000 |
| CAPITAL UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| MARSHALL UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| PENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE | $7,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE | $7,000 |
| OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| ZANESVILLE MEMORIAL CONCERT BAND | $3,000 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $250 |
| GENESIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $30 |
| ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BWBaldwin Wallace University4× · 2022–2025 · $60k · revenue +13%
- ZCZANESVILLE CONCERT ASSOCIATION % RICK AICHELE2× · 2022–2023 · $54k · revenue +93% · 49% of their budget
- WVWEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE3× · 2023–2025 · $21k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- LHLANA HOWELL CO PENSACOLA CHRISTIANone grant, 2020 · $10k
- KTKATLYN THOMAS CO MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $10k
- ZSZANE STATE COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $8k
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.
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Westminster university is a private, independent university dedicated to student learning. we are a community of learners with a long and honored tradition of caring deeply about students and their education. we offer liberal arts and…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 25 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 Baldwin Wallace University ↗
- Who funds ZANESVILLE CONCERT ASSOCIATION % RICK AICHELE ↗
- Who funds Harding University Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Katherine B Geis funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Katherine B Geis. Bigger dots raise more.
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