Florida · Private foundation
Godbold 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.
- $455k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,125
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $123,866
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Godbold Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 | 37 | $455k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $733k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $509k | 59% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $572k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $663k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $404k | 20% |
| FY2017 | 28 | $241k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Tech Foundation Inc | $2,021,906 | 7 | 0% |
| Tampa Bay Times Fund Inc | $207,600 | 4 | 63% |
| University of Florida | $200,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Florida State University | $175,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Starting Right Now | $127,851 | 3 | 1% |
| The High Country Charitable Foundation | $45,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Elk River Helping Hands | $35,500 | 2 | 1% |
| United Way Suncoast Inc | $30,250 | 3 | 0% |
| St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc | $30,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Avery Association for Exceptional Citizens | $20,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($571k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Godbold Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Pinellas Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Wood Family Foundation Inc · Westphal Family Foundation Inc · Alvah H & Wyline P Chapman Foundation · Vinik Family Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Milkey Family Foundation Inc · Thomas A & Mary S James Foundation
How this is measured
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About Godbold Foundation Inc
- How much does Godbold Foundation Inc give?
- Godbold Foundation Inc reported 37 grants totaling $455,016 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Godbold Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (58%), Philanthropy (24%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Who are Godbold Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Georgia Tech Foundation Inc ($2.0M), Tampa Bay Times Fund Inc ($208k), University of Florida ($200k).
- Does Godbold Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Godbold Foundation Inc 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 Godbold Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, Pinellas Community Foundation.
- Where is Godbold Foundation Inc based?
- Godbold Foundation Inc is based in FL.
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