· Private foundation
The Geyer 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 $10k6 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 180 DEGREES | $29,600 |
| EDINA FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION | $8,470 |
| HOME FOR LIFE | $4,000 |
| OUR LADY OF GRACE | $3,500 |
| SEARCH MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| EDINA HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| EDINA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 88% of its 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 88% of The Geyer Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 5%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- 1D180 DEGREES INC3× · 2023–2025 · $59k · revenue +30%
- EHEDINA HOCKEY ASSOCIATION3× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +18%
- YLYOUNG LIFE4× · 2019–2022 · $5k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- MAMINNEHAHA ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue +50%
- SMSEARCH MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2017 · $10k
- FBFirst Baptist Curch of Cookone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…
The mission of lakewood health system is to provide quality, personalized healthcare for a lifetime.
The mission of the YMCA of the North is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind & body for all. The Y is a cause-driven organization that strengthens communities through youth development,…
In collaboration with patients, families and partners, Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare (Gillette) redefines what is possible for children with brain, bone and movement conditions through clinical leadership, research and global…
Our mission is to enrich life and build community with older adults.
Preparing Students for the Future in Jesus' Name.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Empowering our patients to achieve their best health.
We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Our mission is to enhance the quality of life for senior adults by providing homes and services that support each individuals physical, social, and spiritual needs.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 33 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 180 DEGREES INC ↗
- Who funds MINNEHAHA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds EDINA FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EDINA HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds EDINA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds SMASHSMARD INC ↗
- Who funds N C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS MN MINNESOTANORTH DAKOTASOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY 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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Geyer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Geyer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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