Massachusetts · 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.
- $27k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 52
- Grants FY2025
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 66
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $263k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Bernice B Godine Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 51 | $27k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 54 | $26k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $27k | 2% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $27k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $34k | 2% |
| FY2020 | 66 | $44k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $56k | 28% |
| FY2018 | 44 | $55k | 18% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Trustees of Reservations | $59,300 | 3 | 0% |
| Hampshire College Trustees | $56,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Juilliard School | $10,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc | $10,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Beaver Country Day School Inc | $9,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $8,150 | 5 | 0% |
| Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| New York City Ballet Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| New England Conservatory of Music | $4,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bernice B Godine Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
Compare Bernice B Godine Family Foundation with peer funders
About Bernice B Godine Family Foundation
- How much does Bernice B Godine Family Foundation give?
- Bernice B Godine Family Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $27,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 66 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bernice B Godine Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Environment (21%), Arts & Culture (20%).
- Who are Bernice B Godine Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Trustees of Reservations ($59k), Hampshire College Trustees ($56k), Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston ($40k).
- Does Bernice B Godine Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bernice B Godine Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bernice B Godine Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Cloudsplitter Foundation, JM McDonald Foundation Inc.
- Where is Bernice B Godine Family Foundation based?
- Bernice B Godine Family Foundation is based in MA.
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