· Private foundation
Victor & Helen Geisel Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC | $3,500 |
| WOODSON YMCA FOUNDATION OF WAUSAU | $2,000 |
| FAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES INC | $2,000 |
| THE HAGAR HOUSE | $2,000 |
| CAFFE LENA INC | $1,600 |
| LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM | $1,250 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUSAU | $1,000 |
| THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST | $1,000 |
| CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA | $1,000 |
| CAROGA ARTS COLLECTIVE INC | $1,000 |
| CAMP MANITOWISH YMCA INC | $750 |
| WAUSAU CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC | $500 |
| ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC YOUTH ORCHESTRA | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PAPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +582%
- CACAROGA ARTS COLLECTIVE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $14k · revenue ×19
- RCROCHESTER COMMUNITY INCLUSIVE ROWING INC5× · 2019–2025 · $11k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- WYWoodson YMCA Foundation of Wausau - Camp Sturtevantone grant, 2017 · $2k
- SSSARA'S STORYBOOK GARDENone grant, 2021 · $2k
SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INCone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -16%
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.
Inspire artists, audiences, and our greater southern wisconsin community to celabrate the art of theatre.
The central wisconsin symphony orchestra's mission is to enrich, engage and educate through the power and performance of live music. the vision of the central wisconsin symphony orchestra serves as a center of artistic excellence; through…
Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.
The purpose of the wisconsin public radio association (wpra) is to support wisconsin public radio by engaging in cooperative fundraising, stewardship and advocacy. the wpra generates support through programs and participatory activities…
Orchestral program for communit
Inspiring individuals and communities through exceptional music education, accessible to all.
Provide young singers with a choral experience where excellence is valued. Singers have an opportunity to develop their full musical potential and increase their self- esteem through the success that comes from working together.
The kishwaukee concert band is a voluntary adult community organization dedicated to the rehearsal and performance of traditional concert band music for the cultural benefit of the dekalb county il area. the band provides a venue for…
To promote community awareness through sport activities. the organization also sponsors the badger state games (winter and summer) and other events. these events attract thousands of competitors and visitors from across the state and…
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 39 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 PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAROGA ARTS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER COMMUNITY INCLUSIVE ROWING INC ↗
- Who funds LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER CURLING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUSAU INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Heritage Military Music Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STABLE HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAGAR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WAUSAU CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON ↗
- Who funds Wausau Lyric Choir Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CAFFE LENA INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WISCONSIN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY ↗
- Who funds WAUSAU AND MARATHON COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT K9S OF WISCONSININC ↗
- Who funds PRISON EVANGELISM INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Victor & Helen Geisel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Victor & Helen Geisel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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