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The Geist 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $87k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JERUSALEM FELLOWSHIPS | $35,000 |
| GEMACH ZICHRON MOSHE | $30,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE TRAVEL | $11,124 |
| JEWISH FED OF GREATER METROWEST NJ | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,558 |
| JCC METROWEST | $4,500 |
| ALZHEIMERS DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATIO | $2,500 |
| CHABAD AT SHORT HILLS | $2,500 |
| COOPERMAN BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER | $1,100 |
| JEWISH SERVICE FOR DEV DISABLED | $1,030 |
| SAINT BARNABAS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM F | $900 |
| CROHNS AND COLITIS FOUNDATION | $700 |
| ELKS LODGE NO 1246 - SUMMIT | $543 |
| RWJ BARNABAS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $268 |
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 (FY23–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- TJTHE JERUSALEM FELLOWSHIPS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $112k · revenue +84%
- CSCHEVRAS SHABBOS KODESH PODCAST FELLOWSHIP2× · 2022–2023 · $48k · revenue +3%
- CFCOMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- TRTHE RONES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $688k · revenue -87% · 96% of their budget
- AGAISH GLOBAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +65%
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $36k · revenue +63%
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.
To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aish Global Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship. 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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 70 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 THE RONES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JERUSALEM FELLOWSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds AISH GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHEVRAS SHABBOS KODESH PODCAST FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds GEMACH ZICHRON MOSHE INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAYS ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE TRAVEL ↗
- Who funds AISH HATORAH OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds The New Jersey Golf Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF P'TACHINC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds Bonei Olam Inc ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA KTANA OF PASSAIC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CURE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Chevrah Lomdei Mishnah Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GIANTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH RENEWAL FUND ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Ojc Fund · The Jmg Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Geist 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.
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 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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