· Private foundation
Godshalk Family Charitable Foundation U/Agr Dtd 12/23/2005
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS SURGERY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM | $1,500 |
| CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND | $1,500 |
| TOWER SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| GLOUCESTER ADVENTURE INC | $1,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $650 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $500 |
| BERMUDA RACE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE | $500 |
| BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS | $500 |
| BONNELL COVE FOUNDATION | $200 |
| THE ATLANTIC ROUND INC | $200 |
| BEACON ACADEMY INC | $150 |
| AKASHINGA | $150 |
| RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING | $150 |
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 (FY17–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +52% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +224%
- TGTHE GLOUCESTER ADVENTUREINC8× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +52%
- TBTHE BRAIN ANEURYSM FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $7k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- SPSEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- WCWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +64%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +44%
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.
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 open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the National Institutes of Health 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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 60 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 ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GLOUCESTER ADVENTUREINC ↗
- Who funds THE BRAIN ANEURYSM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED PAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AKASHINGA INC ↗
- Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SELECTIVE MUTISM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BONNELL COVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals International ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds PROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Godshalk Family Charitable Foundation U/Agr Dtd 12/23/2005 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Beacon Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 0% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Hope for Haiti Inc — 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.