· Private foundation
The Geisser 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK WOMEN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES | $25,000 |
| GO2 FOUNDATION FOR LUNG CANCER | $25,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $20,000 |
| CORNWALL LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| CORNWALL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $15,000 |
| WINSTON PREP SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| CORNWALL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CORNWALL CONSERVATION TRUST | $10,000 |
| CORNWALL FOOD AND FUEL FUND | $10,000 |
| MITRAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CONNECTICUT FOREST AND PARK ASSOCIATION | $7,000 |
| TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES | $7,000 |
| SPREAD THE VOTE | $7,000 |
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, $143k) 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 its grants land in higher-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.
41 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +10%
- LCLung Cancer Alliance3× · 2017–2019 · $42k · revenue +14%
- SSSPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- UIUCC IN CORNWALL PRESone grant, 2021 · $25k
- CWCORNWALL WOMEN SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
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.
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…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
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 goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…
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.
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…
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…
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 47 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 MARIA I NEW CHILDRENS HORMONE FOUNDATION INC CO R TUCKER TUCKER & LATIFI LLP ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GO2 For Lung Cancer ↗
- Who funds The Cornwall Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOREST & PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Lung Cancer Alliance ↗
- 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 NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE CORNWALL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Kucetekela Foundation ↗
- Who funds 122 EAST 66TH STREET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VALLEY HOUSING FUND ↗
- Who funds MITRAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORNWALL HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds STREETSQUASH 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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Geisser Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Geisser Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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