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Victor & Helen Geisel Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC | $3,500 |
| THE HAGAR HOUSE | $2,000 |
| FAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES INC | $2,000 |
| WOODSON YMCA FOUNDATION OF WAUSAU | $2,000 |
| CAFFE LENA INC | $1,600 |
| LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM | $1,250 |
| CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS | $1,000 |
| CAROGA ARTS COLLECTIVE INC | $1,000 |
| THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUSAU | $1,000 |
| CAMP MANITOWISH YMCA INC | $750 |
| GOOD NEWS PROJECT INC | $500 |
| WAUSAU CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC | $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 (FY17–25, $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 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.
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
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
- 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
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Inc Diocese of Madison and the most unlike its peers is Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 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. 26 of the 39 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 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 THE HAGAR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds STABLE HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WAUSAU CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Wausau Lyric Choir Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON ↗
- Who funds CAFFE LENA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WISCONSIN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Victor & Helen Geisel 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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