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Wynn and Mary Geiger Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$889k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$800k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Human Services$897kHealth$78kHousing & Shelter$66kFood & Nutrition$30kEducation$25kYouth Development$12kArts & Culture$11kCrime & Legal$2kOther$0
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
  • $250k+1 grant · $800k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FORT BEND WOMEN'S CENTER$800,000
FORT BEND SENIOR MEALS ON WHEELS$20,000
SAN JOSE CLINIC OF FORT BEND COUNTY$20,000
FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE$20,000
SECOND MILE MISSION CENTER$20,000
FORT BEND BOYS CHOIR$8,534
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $864k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%FORT BEND WOMEN'S CENTER: $800k → 8%FORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 8%FORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 8%FORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 8%FORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 8%FORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 8%FORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 8%SECOND MILE MISSION CENTER: $20k → 8%SECOND MILE MISSION CENTER: $10k → 8%SECOND MILE MISSION CENTER: $5k → 8%SECOND MILE MISSION CENTER: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 13 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
5

Total granted

$1.1M
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+40%

Still filing today

38%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthCivil RightsOther

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

  • FB
    FORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER INC SOS/SHELTER-OUTREACH-SOLUTIONS
    7× · 2017–2023 · $827k · revenue +124%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC FORT BEND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    5× · 2017–2022 · $46k · revenue +27%
  • SM
    SECOND MILE MISSION CENTER
    4× · 2019–2023 · $37k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • BB
    Blessed Be Hope for Three Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +40%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MUSUEM OF HOUSTON
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • LC
    LITERARY COUNCIL OF FORT BEND
    one grant, 2017 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More

See Schedule OFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels provides comprehensive services, including Meals on Wheels, congregate meals, transportation, case management, health screenings, information and referral services, recreation, and more. Our…

Human Services
2
Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce

The advocate for business excellence in fort bend county.

3
Fort Bend Care Center

To transform community wellness through literacy, health, spiritual and wellness programs

Human Services
4
Fort Bend Forward Inc

The mission of fort bend forward is to provide resources to meet the literary, cultural, educational and health needs of the greater fort bend community.

Education
5
Family Abuse Center Inc

The family abuse center exists to eliminate domestic violence in central texas by sheltering victims of domestic violence and by preventing abuse from occurring through intervention and education.

Human Services
6
Fort Bend Christian Academy

Fort Bend Christian Academy exists to glorify God through excellence in college preparatory Christian education. FBCA strives to equip students with the ability to thrive spiritually, academically, socially, and physically.

Education
7
Fostering Family

Fostering family dba the riverside project is a 501(c)(3) public charity that on behalf of houston's children and their families, brings together organizations and passionate people working as one to help families heal and children thrive.

Community Improvement
8
Abigail's Place

Committed to supporting displaced single mothers in Fort Bend County by providing housing assistance and wraparound services.

Housing & Shelter
9
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…

Human Services
10
Big Bend Habitat for Humanity Inc

Big bend habitat for humanity is dedicated to creating lasting change by helping families in the big bend region achieve the dream of homeownership. as part of the global habitat for humanity network, we work to eliminate barriers to…

Housing & Shelter
11
East Fort Bend Human Needs Ministry

Our mission is to address the basic human needs of families facing food insecurity and/or temporary financial crisis in east fort bend county.

Human Services
12
Family Promise of Bryan-College Station

To assist homeless families in securing stable housing

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Bend County Women's Center Inc Sos/Shelter-Outreach-Solutions and the most unlike its peers is Blessed Be Hope for Three Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER INC SOS/SHELTER-OUTREACH-SOLUTIONS — $827,000 · Human ServicesFORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER INC SOS/SHELTER-OUTREACH-SOLUTIONSSECOND MILE MISSION CENTER — $37,000 · Human ServicesHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC FORT BEND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $46,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INT…SAN JOSE CLINIC OF FORT BEND COUNTY — $30,000 · OtherSAN JOSE CLINIC OF FORT …FORT BEND SENIOR MEALS ON WHEELS — $30,000 · OtherFORT BEND SENIOR MEALS O…FORT BEND SENIOR CITIZENS INC — $28,000 · OtherFORT BEND SENIOR CITIZEN…FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE — $20,000 · OtherFORT BEND FAMILY PROMISESAN JOSE CLINIC — $19,500 · OtherSAN JOSE CLINICHOPE FOR THREE AUTISM ADVOCATES — $13,000 · OtherLITERACY COUNCIL OF FORT BEND — $13,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,500 · OtherTHE ARC OF FORT BEND COUNTY — $10,000 · OtherFORT BEND BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $10,000 · OtherFORT BEND BOYS CHOIR — $8,534 · Other+3 more — $9,000 · OtherFort Bend ISD Education Foundation — $12,000 · PhilanthropyBlessed Be Hope for Three Inc — $5,220 · HealthFt Bend County Child Advocates Inc — $2,000 · Civil Rights
Human Services$864,000Other$247,534Philanthropy$12,000Health$5,220Civil Rights$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER INC SOS/SHELTER-OUTREACH-SOLUTIONS — $827,000 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC FORT BEND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $46,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSECOND MILE MISSION CENTER — $37,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE — $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFort Bend ISD Education Foundation — $12,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARC OF FORT BEND COUNTY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBlessed Be Hope for Three Inc — $5,220 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFt Bend County Child Advocates Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 FORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER INC SOS/SHELTER-OUTREACH-SOLUTIONS
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC FORT BEND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
  • Who funds SECOND MILE MISSION CENTER
  • Who funds FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE
  • Who funds Fort Bend ISD Education Foundation
  • Who funds THE ARC OF FORT BEND COUNTY
  • Who funds Blessed Be Hope for Three Inc
  • Who funds Ft Bend County Child Advocates 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.

The George FoundationTX24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The George Foundation · The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Fluor Cares · Fort Bend Junior Service League · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gulf Coast Medical Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund 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 Wynn and Mary Geiger 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Wynn and Mary Geiger Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Wynn and Mary Geiger Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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