Wisconsin · Private foundation
Victor & Helen Geisel Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $23k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $384k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Victor & Helen Geisel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $23k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $21k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $24k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $19k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $29k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $20k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $20k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $17k | 14% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Performing Arts Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Caroga Arts Collective Inc | $14,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Rochester Community Inclusive Rowing Inc | $10,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Inc | $10,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Inc | $8,750 | 9 | 0% |
| Marathon County Historical Society | $7,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Camp Manito-Wish YMCA Inc | $6,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Center for the Visual Arts | $5,750 | 7 | 1% |
| Rochester Curling Club Inc | $5,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Wausau Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($65k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Victor & Helen Geisel Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 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: Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Dudley Foundation Inc · Dan Storey Foundation Inc · Judd S Alexander Foundation · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Harvey Nelson Char Tr · Walter Alexander Foundation Inc · Bell Family Charitable Foundation I · Abbybank Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Victor & Helen Geisel Foundation
- How much does Victor & Helen Geisel Foundation give?
- Victor & Helen Geisel Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $23,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Victor & Helen Geisel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Human Services (15%), Recreation & Sports (14%).
- Who are Victor & Helen Geisel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Performing Arts Foundation Inc ($15k), Caroga Arts Collective Inc ($14k), Rochester Community Inclusive Rowing Inc ($11k).
- Does Victor & Helen Geisel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Victor & Helen Geisel Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Victor & Helen Geisel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation, Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc, Dudley Foundation Inc.
- Where is Victor & Helen Geisel Foundation based?
- Victor & Helen Geisel Foundation is based in WI.
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