· Private foundation
Bernice B Godine Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 |
|---|---|
| HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| WNET | $3,650 |
| MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ARTS & DESIGN | $3,000 |
| BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,000 |
| GREATER NY FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY | $500 |
| NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY | $500 |
| MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $500 |
| ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL | $400 |
| ASMONT HILL CHAMBER MUSIC | $400 |
| ST LAWRENCE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION COUNCIL | $350 |
| ADIRONDACK EXPERIENCE MUSEUM | $350 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARMOUTH COLLEGE | $300 |
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 (FY17–20, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
93 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 5 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS3× · 2017–2019 · $59k · revenue +50%- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +19%
- JSJUILLIARD SCHOOL7× · 2018–2024 · $10k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +88%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2024 · $1k
- MIMASSCREATIVE INCone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue -60%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Conservatory of Music and the most unlike its peers is Blue Mountain Center. 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 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 11% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 113 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 THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
- Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JOHN BROWN LIVES INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CAFFE LENA INC ↗
- Who funds Infact DBA Corporate Accountability ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds VITAL COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR WRITING INC ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Captain Forbes House Museum ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Cloudsplitter Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Adirondack Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation · The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation · Middlecott Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries
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 Bernice B Godine Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Captain Forbes House Museum — 100% of income from government
- Masscreative Inc — 26% of income from government
- Massachusetts Historical Society — 22% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- American Antiquarian Society — 7% of income from government
- Vital Communities Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- The New England Quarterly — 3% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Lesley University — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% of income from government
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.