· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $84k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $286k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION | $123,866 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $59,375 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY | $53,125 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $50,000 |
| STARTING RIGHT NOW | $40,625 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $12,500 |
| ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS | $10,500 |
| UNITED WAY SUNCOAST | $10,250 |
| YELLOW MOUNTAIN ENTERPRISES | $10,000 |
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $9,375 |
| 1ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $8,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL INC | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $6,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE | $6,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 24% of Godbold Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
46 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 9 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +116%- SRSTARTING RIGHT NOW3× · 2023–2025 · $128k · revenue +33%
- THThe High Country Charitable Foundation4× · 2017–2020 · $45k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINAone grant, 2023 · $6k
- FFFOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +57%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICSone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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.
To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
The organization's mission is to support uf health promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the…
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
The tampa general hospital foundation exclusively operates for the purpose of raising funds to support the research, education and service mission of florida health sciences center, inc. dba tampa general hospital. tampa general is a 981…
As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…
As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…
As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…
To secure the financial future of services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities served by the arc tampa bay, inc. (continued on schedule o)this mission is accomplished through a comprehensive plan of building…
The mission of heart of florida united way is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities. this is accomplished by standing up for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in central florida.
How this is measured
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 90 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY TIMES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds STARTING RIGHT NOW ↗
- Who funds The High Country Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds AVERY ASSOCIATION FOR EXCEPTIONAL CITIZENS ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BILL EDWARDS FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds READY FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
- Who funds POLYWOGS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF ST PETERSBURG FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Achilles International Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Godbold Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Godbold Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services Inc: 15% of income from government
- United Way of Martin County Inc: 4% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc: 1% of income from government
- Seaside Seabird Sanctuary: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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