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Fred and Mary Godley Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$800k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
18
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$40M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Fred and Mary Godley Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentInternationalAnimalsReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$800k24%
FY202318$700k0%
FY202218$740k17%
FY202118$760k17%
FY202019$670k11%
FY201920$685k20%
FY201817$600k12%
FY201715$690kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$1.1MInternational$735kCivil Rights$435kHealth$390kYouth Development$370kHuman Services$370kAnimals$295kEducation$280kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WI
NY
OR
CT
CA
WV
MD
DC
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of Fred and Mary Godley Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Crosby Fund for Haitian Educ Inc$735,000817%
Lyme Land Conservation Trust Inc$415,000811%
Earthjustice$325,00070%
MacCurdy Salisbury Educational Foundation Inc$275,000319%
Connecticut Audubon Society Inc$260,00081%
Friends Center for Children Inc$200,00013%
Camp Claire Inc$165,000417%
Generation West Virginia Inc$160,00048%
Sierra Club Foundation$110,00070%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$110,00070%
World Central Kitchen Inc$80,00030%
Butternut Valley Alliance$50,000518%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$50,00050%
National Network of Abortion Funds Inc$40,00020%
Alliance for Youth Organizing$40,00020%
A Place Called Hope Inc$35,00073%
Equal Justice Initiative$35,00010%
Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc$20,00010%
Creative Arts Workshop Inc$10,00011%
Gun Owners for Responsible Ownership$10,0001n/a
Cornell University$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fred and Mary Godley Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCrosby Fund for Haitian Educ Inc: $735,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetLyme Land Conservation Trust Inc: $415,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetEarthjustice: $325,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMacCurdy Salisbury Educational Foundation Inc: $275,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetConnecticut Audubon Society Inc: $260,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetFriends Center for Children Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCamp Claire Inc: $165,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetGeneration West Virginia Inc: $160,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $110,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $110,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetButternut Valley Alliance: $50,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Network of Abortion Funds Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for Youth Organizing: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetA Place Called Hope Inc: $35,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom From Religion Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCreative Arts Workshop Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCornell University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

The Pfizer Foundation IncNY9.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Fred and Mary Godley Family Foundation

How much does Fred and Mary Godley Family Foundation give?
Fred and Mary Godley Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $800,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Fred and Mary Godley Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (19%), International (13%), Civil Rights (8%).
Who are Fred and Mary Godley Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Crosby Fund for Haitian Educ Inc ($735k), Lyme Land Conservation Trust Inc ($415k), Earthjustice ($325k).
Does Fred and Mary Godley Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fred and Mary Godley 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 Fred and Mary Godley Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Fred and Mary Godley Family Foundation based?
Fred and Mary Godley Family Foundation is based in VA.

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 33 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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