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The Gerald & Elizabeth Geiger Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Gerald & Elizabeth Geiger Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$82k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$422kHousing & Shelter$324kHuman Services$231kReligion$101kHealth$80kPublic Safety & Disaster$33kRecreation & Sports$21kMembership Benefit$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COOPERATIVE HOUSING CORP$8,850
Individual grant recipient$6,500
COOPERATIVE HOUSING CORP$5,900
COOPERATIVE HOUSING CORP$5,900
COOPERATIVE HOUSING CORP$5,900
MILITARY ORDER OF PURPLE HEART$5,000
VFW POST 8371$5,000
DIABLED AMERICAN VETS CHAP 16$5,000
INDEPENDENCE FOR VETERANS$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE CARPENTER$5,000
US NAVAL SEA CADETS CORP$3,500
VIETNAM VETS OF AMERICA CHAPTER 223$3,500
Individual grant recipient$3,000
COOPERATIVE HOUSING CORP$2,950
COOPERATIVE HOUSING CORP$2,950
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OPERATION JERSEY CARES: $5k → 5%ATRION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $975 → 5%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
IN
NJ
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 28 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
28

Total granted

$1.2M
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
0%

Still filing today

29%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BR
    BRANCHBURG ROTARY FOUNDATION-A NJ NONPROFIT CORP
    7× · 2018–2024 · $422k · revenue +110% · 57% of their budget
  • CH
    COOPERATIVE HOUSING CORPORATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $307k · revenue +3%
  • IF
    INDEPENDENCE FOR VETERANS INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • MC
    MARINE CORP LAW ENFORCEMENT
    one grant, 2017 · $31k
  • SM
    ST MARY BYZANTINE CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
  • PF
    PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -2%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
New Jersey Veterans Network Inc

Assit disabled veterans and their families with resources including jobs, housing, clothing, therapy and food

Public Benefit
2
Disabled American Veterans - Dept of Nj

Assistance to disabled american veterans including assistance with claims, information and literature and assist local chapters and coordinate state convention

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3
Amvets Service Foundation of Nj

Providing free services to american veterans and their families to secure their benefits. also perform community and memorial services for veterans.

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4
Hoboken World War Veterans Holding

The organization provides assistance to united states military veterans. including housing

Housing & Shelter
5
A Soldier's Journey Home

The mission is to build homes for soldiers injured during the line of duty.

Human Services
6
Post 911 Veterans Corp

Charitable - providing assitance to veterans

Human Services
7
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the Us

To serve living veterans through community service, national security and a strong national defense.

—
8
Veteran Alliance Usa Inc

Assist veterans in need

Health
9
Philadelphia Veterans Comfort House Corp

Philadelphia veterans comfort house was established to give homeless veterans a chance to start over and become productive members of society while providing the foundation on which veterans can begin to rebuild and maintain a support for…

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10
American Soldier

To give assistance to discharged military veterans and their families.

Human Services
11
Homes 4 Vets Cooperative Corporatio

Provides Homes for Veterans

Public Benefit
12
Shelter Our Soldiers Inc

Shelter our Soldiers mission is to raise awareness and support for American homeless veterans and their families. The organization seeks to meet its mission through fundraising events and campaigns whereby the monies are used to fund…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Independence for Veterans Inc; the most unlike its peers is Green Village Fire Department. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 59 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MILITARY ORDER OF PURPLE HEART: $51,750 · OtherMILITARY ORDER OF PURPLE HEARTDIABLED AMERICAN VETS CHAP 16: $50,600 · OtherDIABLED AMERICAN VETS CHAP 16FOUNDATION OF MORRISTOWN MED CTR: $50,000 · OtherFOUNDATION OF MORRISTOWN MED CTRBOUND BROOK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $44,000 · OtherBOUND BROOK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $43,930 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMARINE CORP LAW ENFORCEMENT: $30,500 · OtherMARINE CORP LAW ENFORCEMENTVIETNAM VETS OF AMERICA CHAPTER 223: $30,200 · OtherVIETNAM VETS OF AMERICA CHAPTER 223INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NET SOM CTY: $20,000 · OtherLYONS COMBAT VETERANS AFFAIRS: $19,000 · Other+38 more: $190,192 · Other+38 moreBRANCHBURG ROTARY FOUNDATION-A NJ NONPROFIT CORP: $421,500 · PhilanthropyBRANCHBURG ROTARY FOUNDATION-A NJ N…COOPERATIVE HOUSING CORPORATION: $306,750 · Housing & ShelterCOOPERATIVE HOUSING CORPOR…+1 more: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterINDEPENDENCE FOR VETERANS INC: $28,000 · Public BenefitPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $5,500 · Public BenefitROLLING THUNDER CHARITIES INC: $2,500 · Public BenefitTHE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC: $12,500 · Food & NutritionHOME OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC FORMERLY INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF: $12,500 · ReligionFLAGLER COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC: $5,000 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $4,500 · HealthFREEDOM HOUSE INC: $1,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · Health
Other$530,172Philanthropy$421,500Housing & Shelter$311,750Public Benefit$36,000Food & Nutrition$12,500Religion$12,500Health$11,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRANCHBURG ROTARY FOUNDATION-A NJ NONPROFIT CORP: $421,500 over 7y, 57% of budgetCOOPERATIVE HOUSING CORPORATION: $306,750 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetINDEPENDENCE FOR VETERANS INC: $28,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOME OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC FORMERLY INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF: $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION JERSEY CARES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCAMP MILLHOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFLAGLER COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of the Carpenter: $5,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW CITY KIDS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUS Naval Sea Cadet Corps: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF NEW JERSEY: $2,500 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetFOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROLLING THUNDER CHARITIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGreen Village Fire Department: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATRION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $975 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

  • Who funds BRANCHBURG ROTARY FOUNDATION-A NJ NONPROFIT CORP ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds INDEPENDENCE FOR VETERANS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD BANK NETWORK OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOME OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC FORMERLY INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF ↗
  • Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION JERSEY CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP MILLHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds FLAGLER COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of the Carpenter ↗
  • Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
  • Who funds NEW CITY KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds US Naval Sea Cadet Corps ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Bristol-Myers Squibb …The Pfizer Foundation…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Gerald & Elizabeth Geiger Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gerald & Elizabeth Geiger Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Freedom House Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Independence for Veterans Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Flagler County Free Clinic Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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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Find your warmest path to The Gerald & Elizabeth Geiger Charitable Foundation Inc 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 59 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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