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Goff Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$606k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$1.6MArts & Culture$555kAnimals$450kEducation$367kHealth$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kCommunity Improvement$40kHuman Services$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation$500,000
TSCRA Disaster Relief Fund$50,000
The FWCD Fund$25,000
UNIVERSITY AVENUE BEAUTIFICATION PROJECT$20,000
Texas Business Hall of Fame$10,000
Exchange Club Christmas Fund$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 25% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Brazosport Independent School District: $5k → 10%Exchange Club Christmas Fund: $1k → 11%BAYLOR SCOTT WHITE HEALTH: $25k → 14%THE BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY: $5k → 14%Texas Business Hall of Fame: $25k → 16%National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation: $500k → 12%SHATTERPROOF: $50k → 9%Jason Witten SCORE Foundation: $10k → 4%B Sharp Youth Music Program: $536k → 11%Uplift Education: $43k → 14%Texas Business Hall of Fame: $10k → 16%B Sharp Youth Music Program: $336k → 11%Uplift Education: $40k → 14%MD ANDERSON: $30k → 16%B Sharp Youth Music Program: $314k → 11%Uplift Education: $29k → 14%B Sharp Youth Music Program: $266k → 11%Uplift Education: $15k → 14%B Sharp Youth Music Program: $115k → 11%Teach for America - DFW: $5k → 14%B Sharp Youth Music Program: $47k → 11%Performing Arts Fort Worth Inc: $25k → 11%PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH: $25k → 11%Fort Worth Chamber Development Foundation: $5k → 11%International Sister Cities Association: $2k → 11%Tarrant County College Foundation: $1k → 11%North Texas Community Foundation: $600 → 11%TCC Foundation: $500 → 11%TCC Foundation: $500 → 11%Fort Worth Zoological Association: $90k → 11%Fort Worth Zoological Association: $90k → 11%Fort Worth Zoological Association: $90k → 11%Fort Worth Zoological Association: $90k → 11%The FWCD Fund: $25k → 11%Fort Worth Zoological Association: $90k → 11%Make-a-Wish North Texas: $7k → 11%FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: $5k → 11%Fort Worth ISD Education Foundation: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 9 repeat orgs$736k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
13

Total granted

$2.4M
$160k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
-6%

Still filing today

44%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $576k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementArts & CultureAnimalsInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TF
    THE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $450k · revenue +21%
  • PA
    PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $50k · revenue +252%
  • TB
    Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • SA
    SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -6%
  • MA
    MD ANDERSON
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • BS
    BAYLOR SCOTT WHITE HEALTH
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce

To act as the voice of business, articulating a business perspective and advocating policies supported by the fort worth general business community.

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2
Downtown Fort Worth Inc

Downtown fort worth, inc. was established to foster, promote, maintain and encourage the civic, social and general welfare of the city of fort worth through the encouragement and promotion of better business and living conditions in…

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3
Downtown Fort Worth Initiatives Inc

Downtown fort worth initiatives, inc. receives funds to be used exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, literary or educational purposes that help to foster, promote, maintain, and encourage the civic, social, and general…

Community Improvement
4
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
5
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
6
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
7
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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8
Texas State University Development Foundation

To support and further the mission of texas state university through the acceptance and investment of gifts established as endowments benefiting the students, faculty and staff.

Education
9
Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Inc

To provide leadership and advocacy to the arts in fort worth and tarrant county.

Arts & Culture
10
The Real Estate Council Inc

Trec's mission is to cultivate relationships in the commercial real estate industry to catalyze community investment, influence policy, propel careers and develop the leaders of tomorrow.we believe relationships are the lifeblood of career…

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11
Texas Association of Business

As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…

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12
Fort Worth Chamber Foundation Inc

The fort worth chamber foundation, inc. was incorporated to receive and administer funds to be used exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, literary, or educational purposes relating to the city of fort worth.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Sister Cities Association of Fort Worth Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jason Witten S C O R E Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 27 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

B Sharp Youth Music Program: $1,614,248 · OtherB Sharp Youth Music ProgramNational Medal of Honor Museum Foundation: $500,000 · OtherNational Medal of Honor Museum FoundationUplift Education: $126,655 · Other+16 more: $253,612 · Other+16 moreTHE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $450,000 · AnimalsTHE FORT WORTH Z…PERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 · HealthTSCRA DISASTER RELIEF FUND: $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTexas Business Hall of Fame Foundation: $35,000 · Community ImprovementFORT WORTH CHAMBER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Community ImprovementJASON WITTEN S C O R E FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$2,494,515Animals$450,000Arts & Culture$55,000Health$50,000Public Safety & Disaster$50,000Community Improvement$40,000Crime & Legal$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetB Sharp Youth Music Program: $1,614,248 over 6y, 69% of budgetTHE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $450,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FORT WORTH INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTSCRA DISASTER RELIEF FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTexas Business Hall of Fame Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetJASON WITTEN S C O R E FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORT WORTH CHAMBER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,012 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SISTER CITIES ASSOCIATION OF FORT WORTH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Wm & Catherine Bryce …Bnsf Railway Foundati…Amon G Carter Foundat…Sid W Richardson Foun…Thomas M Helen McKee …Rainwater Charitable …Tj Brown & Ca Lupton …Robert D and Catherin…Carol J and R Denny A…Leo Potishman Foundat…James and Dorothy Dos…Mary Potishman Lard T…
Wm & Catherine Bryce Memorial Fund Xxxxx3001IL17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wm & Catherine Bryce Memorial Fund Xxxxx3001 · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundation · Robert D and Catherine R Alexander Foundation · Carol J and R Denny Alexander Foundation · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · James and Dorothy Doss Foundation Inc · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Goff Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Goff Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Goff Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Goff Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 27 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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