· Private foundation
The Geaton and Joann Decesaris Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of THE GEATON AND JOANN DECESARIS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $471k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GO2 FOUNDATION LUNG CANCER | $300,000 |
| ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| METAVIVOR | $25,000 |
| SARAH'S HOUSE | $25,000 |
| ST MARY'S ANNAPOLIS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $22,600 |
| CHRYSALIS HOUSE | $20,000 |
| THE LIGHT HOUSE INC | $20,000 |
| JH KIMMEL CANCER CENTER | $20,000 |
| ANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| HOUSE OF RUTH | $20,000 |
| WELLNESS HOUSE OF ANNAPOLIS | $20,000 |
| DYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| DECESARISPROUT CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $15,500 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL MD | $15,000 |
| THE SUMMIT SCHOOL | $13,450 |
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 (FY17–24, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 28% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
- AWANNAPOLIS WELLNESS CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $282k · revenue +163%
- MRMETAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +114%
- HDHUMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TA THE SU5× · 2020–2024 · $173k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MD2× · 2018–2019 · $30k
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED2× · 2018–2019 · $25k
- MCMCNAMARA CAPITAL CAMPAIGN2× · 2018–2019 · $20k
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.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc. is to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world's most promising research.
The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.
Our mission is to help people make sense of the complex medical and personal information about breast health and breast cancer, so they can make the best decisions for their lives.
The mesothelioma applied research foundation, inc. mission is to offer hope and support to patients and families dealing with mesothelioma. this is accomplished by educating patients and families about the disease, helping them obtain the…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Metavivor Research and Support Inc and the most unlike its peers is Morgans Message Inc. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
60 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. 60 of the 115 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 ANNAPOLIS WELLNESS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds METAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds DYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TA THE SU ↗
- Who funds ULMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT MEADE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SARAHS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DECESARISPROUT CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR EVENTS INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Lung Cancer Alliance ↗
- Who funds LESLIES WEEK ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE FLIGHTS ↗
- Who funds DIVINE MERCY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
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: Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · William J and Dorothy K O'Neill Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Koch Family Foundation Inc · Edward St John Foundation Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Allegis Group Foundation Inc · The James M and Margaret V Stine Foundation Inc · John Vos Family Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Northrop Grumman 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 Geaton and Joann Decesaris Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital — 0% of income from government
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.