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Bernice B Godine Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$119kEnvironment$75kArts & Culture$72kHuman Services$42kHealth$15kFood & Nutrition$7kCivil Rights$5kInternational$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300
Median grant
9
States reached
$263k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE$4,000
WNET$3,650
MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ARTS & DESIGN$3,000
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC$1,000
BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$1,000
GREATER NY FOOD BANK$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$1,000
NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY$500
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY$500
AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY$500
ASMONT HILL CHAMBER MUSIC$400
ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL$400
ST LAWRENCE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION COUNCIL$350
ADIRONDACK EXPERIENCE MUSEUM$350
ADIRONDACK HISTORY MUSEUM$300
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JCC GREATER BOSTON: $10k → 8%JCC GREATER BOSTON: $10k → 8%JCC GREATER BOSTON: $10k → 8%JCC GREATER BOSTON: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MT
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
AZ
DC
AL
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$341k · 93 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

93
11

Total granted

$341k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+66%

Still filing today

59%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentInternationalHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 RESERVATIONS
    3× · 2017–2019 · $59k · revenue +50%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON
    4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +19%
  • JS
    JUILLIARD SCHOOL
    7× · 2018–2024 · $10k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +88%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • CC
    COMPASSION & CHOICESgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +157%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
5
Dickinson College

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

Education
6
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
8
Bard College

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.

Education
9
Western New England University

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…

Education
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
11
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
12
University of New Haven

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Conservatory of Music; 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.
04the grantee network

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/69
Grantees still filing
53/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $56,000 · EducationHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEESJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationJUILLIARD SCHOOLTHE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $9,000 · EducationTHE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL I…NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $4,500 · EducationTHE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL: $4,350 · Education+9 more: $15,450 · Education+9 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $59,300 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERV…Infact DBA Corporate Accountability: $2,800 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $2,450 · Environment+5 more: $5,700 · Environment+5 moreMASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $12,500 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF …MASS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,350 · OtherASHMONT HILL CHAMBER MUSIC INC: $3,200 · OtherJOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY: $3,050 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ARTS & DESIGN: $3,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $3,000 · OtherUnited States Association for UNHCR: $4,000 · OtherTHE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION: $3,050 · Other+54 more: $44,725 · Other+54 moreTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONI…BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE …NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY B…JOHN BROWN LIVES INC: $4,150 · Arts & CultureJOHN BROWN LIVE…WNET: $3,650 · Arts & CultureWNETBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY…CAFFE LENA INC: $2,950 · Arts & CultureCAFFE LENA INCMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $2,500 · Arts & CultureADIRONDACK CENTER FOR WRITING INC: $2,000 · Arts & CulturePEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL: $1,850 · Arts & CultureBOYLSTON PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $1,650 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $5,450 · Arts & Culture+11 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $40,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMU…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $8,150 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $2,000 · HealthFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $4,000 · Community ImprovementVITAL COMMUNITIES INC: $2,500 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY: $500 · Community Improvement
Education$99,300Environment$70,250Other$79,875Arts & Culture$49,200Human Services$40,000Health$10,150Community Improvement$7,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $59,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $56,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $8,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL: $4,350 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN BROWN LIVES INC: $4,150 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $3,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY: $3,150 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION: $3,050 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $3,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCAFFE LENA INC: $2,950 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetInfact DBA Corporate Accountability: $2,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVITAL COMMUNITIES INC: $2,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $2,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $2,450 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $2,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY: $2,300 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $2,200 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetADIRONDACK CENTER FOR WRITING INC: $2,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $2,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCaptain Forbes House Museum: $1,900 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLESLEY UNIVERSITY: $1,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL: $1,850 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE MOUNTAIN CENTER: $1,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSUSTAINABLE SARATOGA: $1,750 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBOYLSTON PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $1,650 over 6y, 0.4% of budget350ORG: $1,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Bennet Street School: $1,450 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART INC: $1,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWELLS COLLEGE: $1,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPITNEY MEADOWS COMMUNITY FARM INC: $1,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $1,150 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARATOGA PLAN INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUBLIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $900 over 8y, 0.4% of budget
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 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 FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
  • Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
  • 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 VITAL COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
  • 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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Captain Forbes House Museum ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncCloudsplitter Foundat…JM McDonald Foundatio…Ibm International Fou…Adirondack FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…Combined Jewish Phila…Fidelity Non-Profit M…The Gladys Krieble De…Middlecott FoundationEastern Bank Foundati…Highland Street Conne…
Boston Foundation IncMA22.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bernice B Godine Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernice B Godine Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 113 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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