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The Geo Global Foundation at a glance

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The Geo Global 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.

$712k
Granted FY2023
33
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$983kEducation$14kCivil Rights$4k
02FY2023 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k6 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $671k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets

Largely a single collection: about 100% of reported assets are Art Collection Held For Academic Research And Exhibition Purposes.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO$35,000
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO$35,000
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO$35,000
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO$35,000
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO$35,000
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO$35,000
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO$35,000
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO$35,000
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO$35,000
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO$35,000
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO$35,000
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO$35,000
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO$25,000
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART$20,000
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO$20,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 75% of grant dollars ($746k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 25% that went abroad ($255k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HAMMER MUSEUM: $5k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $14k → 17%DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART: $20k → 14%THE ASPEN INSTITUE: $4k → 7%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS: $11k → 17%NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $88 → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $35k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $35k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $35k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $35k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $35k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $35k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $35k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $35k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $35k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $35k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $35k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $35k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $25k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $20k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $20k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $20k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $20k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $18k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $18k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $15k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $15k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $15k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $15k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $10k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $10k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $10k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $8k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $8k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $8k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $7k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $5k → 17%EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Beyond the US: 25% of all-years giving ($255k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Argentina$235k · 3 grants
Netherlands$20k · 1 grant
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its field
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
4/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $692,000 · Arts & CultureAMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO+3 more: $25,088 · Arts & CultureCENTRO DE ESTUDIOS ESPIGAS: $150,000 · OtherCENTRO DE ESTUDIOS ESPIGASINVESTIGACION EN DISENO ARGENTINO: $85,000 · OtherINVESTIGACION EN DISENO ARGENT…WITTE DE WITH CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $20,000 · OtherWITTE DE WITH CENTER FOR CONTE…NEW YORK UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS: $11,400 · Other+1 more: $4,000 · OtherTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $13,500 · Education
Arts & Culture$717,088Other$270,400Education$13,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $692,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $13,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $88 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Geo Global Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Geo Global Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to The Geo Global Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Geo Global Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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