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The Geisser Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $136k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK WOMEN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $20,000 |
| CORNWALL LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $15,000 |
| GO2 FOUNDATION FOR LUNG CANCER | $12,000 |
| CORNWALL FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| WINSTON PREP SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| CONNECTICUT FOREST AND PARK ASSOCIATION | $9,500 |
| TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES | $7,000 |
| SPREAD THE VOTE | $7,000 |
| CORNWALL CONSERVATION TRUST | $6,000 |
| NY COMMON PANTRY | $6,000 |
| CORNWALL FOOD AND FUEL FUND | $6,000 |
| CORNWALL HOUSING CORPORATION | $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 (FY17–24, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
37 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +10%
- LCLung Cancer Alliance3× · 2017–2019 · $42k · revenue +14%
- SSSPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN8× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- UIUCC IN CORNWALL PRESone grant, 2021 · $25k
- CWCORNWALL WOMEN SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…
Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
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.
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The foundation, a subsidiary of new york university, fosters legal education and research at new york university's school of law by awarding scholarships, making grants for educational purposes related to law, and supporting programs of…
To provide accountable, responsive quality care with the highest degree of sensitivity to the needs of our diverse, multilingual population while fulfilling the professional and educational needs of our members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Women's Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Maria I New Childrens Hormone Foundation Inc Co R Tucker Tucker & Latifi Llp. 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 38 years old; the field is 16. 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 — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 44 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 MARIA I NEW CHILDRENS HORMONE FOUNDATION INC CO R TUCKER TUCKER & LATIFI LLP ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Cornwall Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GO2 For Lung Cancer ↗
- Who funds Lung Cancer Alliance ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOREST & PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SPREAD THE VOTE INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Cornwall Conservation Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Kucetekela Foundation ↗
- Who funds 122 EAST 66TH STREET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY HOUSING FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CORNWALL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds CORNWALL HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RIVER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds STREETSQUASH 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 Harriet F Dickenson Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Joseph and Barbara Ellis Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Geisser 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cornwall Conservation Trust Inc — 30% of income from government
- Connecticut Forest & Park Association — 16% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% 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.
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