· Private foundation
The Geary-OHara Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Path Forward | $25,000 |
| Arlington Free Clinic | $25,000 |
| Doorways for Women and Families | $25,000 |
| Arlington Food Assistance Cooperati | $25,000 |
| Signature Theatre | $23,162 |
| Offender Aid and Restoration | $22,500 |
| Arlington Thrive | $22,500 |
| True Ground Housing Project | $17,000 |
| Innocence Project | $15,000 |
| ACLU Foundation Inc | $15,000 |
| Kent School | $15,000 |
| Arthritis Foundation | $5,000 |
| Oligo Nation | $5,000 |
| Guns Down America | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- DFDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $275k · revenue +31%
- AFARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $241k · revenue +43%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC6× · 2017–2022 · $200k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- BBAJCDCone grant, 2017 · $20k
- MSMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +39%
- NMNational MS Societyone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
The alliance for aging research is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the narrative to achieve healthy aging and equitable access to care.
To provide initial research funding to brilliant, investigative scientists with new ideas to cure arthritis and related autoimmune diseases.
Amplify the work of our community by bringing people and resources together.
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,…
Acrp promotes excellence in clinical research. we support clinical research professionals through training and development, the exchange of ideas and expertise, and certification. we serve as the preferred source for quality tools,…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
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…
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
The alliance for regenerative medicine (arm) is the preeminent global advocate for regenerative and advanced therapies. arm fosters research, development, investment and commercialization of transformational treatments and cures for…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
To promote, support and further the interests and purposes of the arc of the united states, inc.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arlington Free Clinic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alliance for Housing Solutions. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 25 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 DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON THRIVE ↗
- Who funds PathForward Inc ↗
- Who funds Alliance For Housing Solutions ↗
- Who funds OLIGO NATION ↗
- Who funds THE CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION OF MD & DC ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GUNSDOWN INC ↗
- Who funds KENT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
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 Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Washington Forrest Foundation · Reinsch Pierce Family Foundation Inc · Arlington Community Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Bergstrom Foundation Inc · Act for Alexandria · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable 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 The Geary-OHara Family 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.