· Private foundation
Dudley and Constance Godfrey Foundation Inc
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k75 grants · $319k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $445k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $405k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $160,000 |
| ST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $76,000 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $66,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE | $53,000 |
| MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING | $50,000 |
| LAYTON ART COLLECTION | $40,000 |
| FOREST HOME HISTORIC PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC | $40,000 |
| HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FUND INC | $30,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| PABST MANSION INC | $25,000 |
| MCC SCHOLARS FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| COMMNUITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC | $20,000 |
| LAKE PARK FRIENDS | $19,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $225k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
107 repeat relationships — 96 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 8 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $450k · revenue +45%- MAMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $376k · revenue +27%
- LALAYTON ART COLLECTION6× · 2020–2025 · $223k · revenue +131% · 40% of their budget
Funded once
THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +59%- WFWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +27%
- HDHF DUPONT WINTERTHUR MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $9k
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 wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The war memorial center's mission is to honor the dead and serve the living. we commemorate the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedom while preserving and sharing the stories, experiences, and…
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
109 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. 109 of the 131 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 WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LAYTON ART COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds FOREST HOME HISTORIC PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FLEISCHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ↗
- Who funds LAKE PARK FRIENDS LTD ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC DEERFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds STARS AND STRIPES HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds MCC SCHOLARS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds SIXTEENTH STREET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BACKSTRETCH EMPLOYEE SERVICE TEAM OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds PABST MANSION INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING INC ↗
- Who funds GATHERING OF SOUTHEAST WI INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PURPLE MARTIN CONSERVATION ASSOC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST 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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Rite-Hite Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Dorothy Inbusch 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 Dudley and Constance Godfrey Foundation Inc 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.
- Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
- Historic Deerfield Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.
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