Hawaii · Private foundation
The Victoria S and Bradley L Geist Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 152
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 84%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $2.5M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 56 to 68
- FY2020 to FY2023
- Total assets, FY2024
- $38M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 84% of the organizations The Victoria S and Bradley L Geist Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 73 | $2.5M | 81% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $1.9M | 84% |
| FY2021 | 68 | $904k | 69% |
| FY2020 | 62 | $2.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Effective Planning & Innovative Communication Inc | $808,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Family Programs Hawaii | $427,935 | 3 | 7% |
| Punahou School | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ho'Ola Na Pua | $200,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Honolulu Museum of Art | $150,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Hale Kipa Inc | $135,502 | 3 | 1% |
| University of Hawaii System | $112,499 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of the Children's Justice Center of East Hawaii | $110,337 | 2 | 28% |
| Family Hui Hawaii | $108,499 | 2 | 8% |
| Friends of Childrens Justice Center | $94,100 | 2 | 14% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 176 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Victoria S and Bradley L Geist Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Atherton Family Foundation · Aloha United Way Inc · J Watumull Fund · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Cooke Foundation Limited · Tradewind Group Foundation · Teresa Hughes Trust · Locations Foundation · The Queen's Medical Center · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Victoria S and Bradley L Geist Foundation with peer funders
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About The Victoria S and Bradley L Geist Foundation
- How much does The Victoria S and Bradley L Geist Foundation give?
- The Victoria S and Bradley L Geist Foundation reported 152 itemized grants totaling $2,467,350, out of $2,558,519 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 68 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Victoria S and Bradley L Geist Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (16%), Education (10%), Youth Development (8%).
- Who are The Victoria S and Bradley L Geist Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Effective Planning & Innovative Communication Inc ($808k), Family Programs Hawaii ($428k), Punahou School ($300k).
- Does The Victoria S and Bradley L Geist Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 84% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Victoria S and Bradley L Geist Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Victoria S and Bradley L Geist Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Atherton Family Foundation, Aloha United Way Inc, J Watumull Fund.
- Where is The Victoria S and Bradley L Geist Foundation based?
- The Victoria S and Bradley L Geist Foundation is based in HI.
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