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Geismar 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $435k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT ANNE'S BELFIELD SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| VIRGINIA ATHLETIC FOUNDATION | $93,480 |
| UVA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $81,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VA | $60,000 |
| CACF | $50,000 |
| CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION | $32,000 |
| CAV FUTURES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| UVA HEALTH | $5,000 |
| RELEAF CVILLE | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–19, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- SAST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC4× · 2017–2021 · $200k · revenue +35%
- CHCHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +7%
- LHLIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INC3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- BFBROOKS FAMILY YMCAone grant, 2017 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- LFLOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +52%
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.
Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
To establish an effective, long-term and resilient political infrastructure that advocates for and delivers public policy victories which reflect the values held in common by our members.
Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.
Village school is a warm and welcoming place for girls to discover their strengths, find their own voices, and grow into confident, self-reliant, and intellectually curious learners. by providing the skills and support necessary to engage…
Promoting literacy by providing one-on-one confidential tutoring in basic literacy, citizenship, and english for speakers of other languages to adults living/working in charlottesville, albemarle, contiguous counties
New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
The Children's Advocacy Centers of Virginia (CACVA) promotes and supports the development, growth and continuation of child advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams across the state in their service to child victims of abuse and…
To advance programs, practices, and policies that nurture children, empower families, and support communities.
The mission of CHSVA is to build strong permanent families and lifelong relationships for Virginia's at risk children and youth.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cav Futures Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Big Brothers Big Sisters Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 24 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 CAV FUTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Cultivate Charlottesville ↗
- Who funds Madison House ↗
- Who funds LOCAL FOOD HUB INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT CASA INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN VOICES ↗
- Who funds RELEAF CVILLE ↗
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Rimora Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · The Genan Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · Manning Family Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · The Oak Hill Fund · Caplin Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund
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 Geismar Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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