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Melvin R & Ada C Greiser Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$51k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$190kHealth$55kHuman Services$32kRecreation & Sports$26kReligion$24kAnimals$21kHousing & Shelter$7kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,250
Median grant
14
States reached
$697k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACADEMY OF SACRED HEART$9,535
PEAK FOUNDATION$7,035
CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION$5,718
ANGEL AMONG US PET RESCUE$3,006
TRINE UNIVERSITY$3,000
LEBANON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,400
PEACEFUL PATHS INC$2,300
USS SWIMMING FOUNDATION$2,250
THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION$2,250
Individual grant recipient$2,200
Individual grant recipient$2,028
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$1,906
ABILITY360 INC$1,335
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION$1,300
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%Tinina Q Cade Foundation Inc: $2k → 11%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%PEACEFUL PATHS INC: $2k → 19%ABILITY360 INC: $1k → 11%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%PEACEFUL PATHS INC: $2k → 19%ABILITY360 Inc: $1k → 11%PEACEFUL PATHS INC: $2k → 19%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $4k → 9%ABILITY360 Inc: $1k → 11%PEACEFUL PATHS INC: $2k → 19%HOMES FOR YOUTH: $500 → 12%ABILITY360 Inc: $1k → 11%PEACEFUL PATHS INC: $1k → 19%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $2k → 9%PEACEFUL PATHS INC: $1k → 19%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $2k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $1k → 9%HOMES FOR YOUTH: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$359k · 41 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
14

Total granted

$359k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+34%

Still filing today

54%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

  • TU
    Trine University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +135%
  • US
    USA Swimming Inc
    5× · 2017–2023 · $23k · revenue +32%
  • GC
    Grand Canyon University
    2× · 2019–2020 · $12k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • NW
    NPHX WEEKLY PRESCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $7k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
2
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health
3
Acmg Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine

Support the american college of medical genetics and genomics' (acmg) educational mission to "translate genes into health" by raising funds to attract the next generation of medical geneticists and genetic counselors, to sponsor important…

4
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
5
Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation

To aid the alliance for clinical trials in oncology national clinical trials cooperative group and support the clinical trials and laboratory research of the alliance, as well as efforts to educate the medical community on methods of…

Health
6
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

9
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
10
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
The American Neurological Association

Advancing science, education, and careers to improve neurologic health for all.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Minutes Matter - Mcadd. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support OrganizationsAffordable Housing Developm…Animal Rescue and AdoptionDevelopmental Disabilities …Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Faith-Based Senior LivingPregnancy Support ServicesClassical Music EnsemblesYouth Ice Hockey ProgramsYmca Community CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%27%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,531

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.

04the grantee network

29 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 57 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MARIAN HIGH SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND — $33,829 · OtherMARIAN HIGH SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUNDPEAK FOUNDATION — $29,929 · OtherPEAK FOUNDATIONACADEMY OF SACRED HEART — $29,174 · OtherACADEMY OF SACRED HEARTLEBANON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $18,500 · OtherLEBANON CHRISTIAN SCHOOLMARIAN HIGH SCHOOL — $15,055 · OtherMARIAN HIGH SCHOOLPAWS FOR A CAUSE INC — $14,800 · OtherPAWS FOR A CAUSE INCIndividual grant recipient — $13,000 · OtherYMCA OF GREATER DAYTON — $11,123 · OtherST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $11,000 · Other+22 more — $75,070 · Other+22 moreTrine University — $24,000 · EducationTrine Univ…Grand Canyon University — $11,707 · EducationGrand Cany…+1 more — $653 · EducationMINUTES MATTER - MCADD — $11,463 · HealthMINUTES MA…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $3,900 · HealthALZHEIMER'…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $3,406 · HealthBLOOD CANC…PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $3,109 · HealthPANCREATIC…CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN — $3,062 · HealthCROSSNORE …LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $3,059 · HealthLEUKEMIA R…THE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $2,500 · HealthTHE ZACHAR…MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC — $2,016 · HealthMULTIPLE S…PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $1,300 · Health+2 more — $1,619 · HealthPEACEFUL PATHS INC — $10,100 · Human ServicesPEACEFUL …THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $8,875 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG…MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $7,300 · Human ServicesMARC LUST…ABILITY360 INC — $4,935 · Human ServicesABILITY36…TININA Q CADE FOUNDATION INC — $1,600 · Human ServicesHOMES FOR YOUTH INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesUSA Swimming Inc — $23,332 · Recreation & SportsUSA Swimming Foundation Inc — $2,250 · Recreation & SportsThe Mount Notre Dame SGO — $5,909 · PhilanthropyACTS LEGACY FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · PhilanthropyANGELS AMONG US PET RESCUE INC — $5,806 · AnimalsTHE HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$251,480Education$36,360Health$35,434Human Services$34,310Recreation & Sports$25,582Philanthropy$8,909Animals$5,806Arts & Culture$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTrine University — $24,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUSA Swimming Inc — $23,332 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University — $11,707 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEACEFUL PATHS INC — $10,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $8,875 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $7,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity — $6,710 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANGELS AMONG US PET RESCUE INC — $5,806 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetABILITY360 INC — $4,935 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $3,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $3,406 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $3,109 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC — $3,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN — $3,062 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $3,059 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetACTS LEGACY FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBREAD OF THE MIGHTY FOOD BANK INC — $2,858 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUSA Swimming Foundation Inc — $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC — $2,016 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTININA Q CADE FOUNDATION INC — $1,600 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOMES FOR YOUTH INC — $1,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $966 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE — $653 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FACIAL PAIN ASSOCIATION INC — $653 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 Trine University
  • Who funds USA Swimming Inc
  • Who funds Grand Canyon University
  • Who funds MINUTES MATTER - MCADD
  • Who funds PEACEFUL PATHS INC
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871)
  • Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity
  • Who funds The Mount Notre Dame SGO
  • Who funds ANGELS AMONG US PET RESCUE INC
  • Who funds ABILITY360 INC
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ACTS LEGACY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BREAD OF THE MIGHTY FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds THE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION

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.

Ge Aerospace FoundationCT12.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Melvin R & Ada C Greiser 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 39%
  • Peaceful Paths Inc39% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Melvin R & Ada C Greiser Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Melvin R & Ada C Greiser Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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