· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Path Forward | $25,000 |
| Arlington Food Assistance Cooperati | $25,000 |
| Arlington Free Clinic | $25,000 |
| Doorways for Women and Families | $25,000 |
| Signature Theatre | $23,162 |
| Arlington Thrive | $22,500 |
| Offender Aid and Restoration | $22,500 |
| True Ground Housing Project | $17,000 |
| Kent School | $15,000 |
| ACLU Foundation Inc | $15,000 |
| Innocence Project | $15,000 |
| Oligo Nation | $5,000 |
| Guns Down America | $5,000 |
| Arthritis Foundation | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Geary-OHara Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Geary-OHara Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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