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Goff 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.

$513k
Granted FY2024still arriving
91
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$325k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Education$1.3MEnvironment$50kArts & Culture$37kHuman Services$36kScience & Tech$19kHousing & Shelter$17kYouth Development$16kReligion$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 91 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k87 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
  • $250k+1 grant · $325k
$500
Median grant
18
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORK$325,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION$80,000
LAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION$18,160
ONE HUMDRED ANGELS$15,800
FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA$7,000
SOUNDS ACADEMY$4,700
UNITARIAN UNIV CONGREG OF PHX (UUCP)$4,500
HUMANIST SOCIETY OF GREATER PHOENIX$3,500
UNION FOR CONCERNED SCIENTISTS$3,000
CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES$3,000
TONTO GRAVITY RIDERS$3,000
UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS$2,500
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK$2,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$1,800
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY$1,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER INC: $300 → 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $516 → 7%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER INC: $300 → 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER INC: $265 → 10%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER INC: $265 → 10%VALLEY OF THE SUN YMCA: $500 → 11%VALLEY OF THE SUN YMCA: $500 → 11%VALLEY OF THE SUN YMCA: $500 → 11%VALLEY OF THE SUN YMCA: $500 → 11%HUMANIST SOCIETY OF GREATER PHOENIX: $4k → 11%HUMANIST SOCIETY OF GREATER PHOENIX: $4k → 11%HUMANIST SOCIETY OF GREATER PHOENIX: $4k → 11%HUMANIST SOCIETY OF GREATER PHOENIX: $4k → 11%ONE HUMDRED ANGELS: $16k → 11%ONE HUNDRED ANGELS: $500 → 11%ONE HUMDRED ANGELS: $500 → 11%ONE HUMDRED ANGELS: $300 → 11%ARIZONA HOUSING COALITION: $400 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
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MN
IL
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NY
MA
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OH
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CA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 98 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

98 repeat relationships — 85 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

98
19

Total granted

$1.5M
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+17%

Still filing today

63%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalHealthOther

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

  • SO
    SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORK
    4× · 2021–2024 · $930k · revenue +305% · 68% of their budget
  • University of Arizona Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $170k · revenue +12%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • UO
    U OF A LAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $37k
  • NETWORK FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue -62%
  • AH
    ARIZONA HOUSING COALITIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $400 · revenue +291%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
2
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
3
American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona

The american civil liberties union of arizona is the state's premier guardian of liberty working through the arizona legislature and communities statewide to defend and preserve individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the…

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4
American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona

To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.

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5
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
6
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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8
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
9
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
10
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
11
Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce

Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.

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12
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mcdowell Sonoran Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Expect More Arizona. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyArizona Civic Justice Advoc…Arts and Cultural Organizat…Faith-Based Family & Youth …Diverse Social ServicesUtah Advocacy and Service O…Arizona Community Developme…Social Services for Vulnera…Community Foundations and G…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%2%<5yr17%6%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr10%35%35–55yr12%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr17%73%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr15%4%20–35yr10%6%35–55yr12%16%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/75
the rest of the field
16%
4,465/28,410

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.

04the grantee network

74 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. 74 of the 123 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/74
Grantees still filing
46/74
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORK — $930,000 · EducationSAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORKUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $170,000 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Foundation+9 more — $31,676 · EducationU OF A FOUNDATION — $148,000 · OtherU OF A FOUNDATIONU OF A LAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION — $36,680 · OtherU OF A LAW COLLEGE ASS…TONTO GRAVITY RIDERS — $14,300 · OtherUNITARIAN UNIV CONGREG OF PHX (UUCP) — $13,200 · Other+71 more — $104,917 · Other+71 moreFRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA — $22,000 · Arts & CultureSOUNDS ACADEMY — $8,409 · Arts & CultureARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER — $4,800 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $2,113 · Arts & CultureONE HUNDRED ANGELS — $17,100 · Human ServicesHUMANIST SOCIETY OF GREATER PHOENIX INC — $14,075 · Human ServicesValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association — $2,000 · Human Services+3 more — $2,546 · Human ServicesTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC — $4,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $2,400 · EnvironmentMCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY — $2,200 · EnvironmentNORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS — $2,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $2,000 · EnvironmentSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance — $2,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $1,400 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $1,200 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE TONTO NATIONAL FOREST INC — $1,200 · EnvironmentGRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY — $1,150 · EnvironmentGLEN CANYON INSTITUTE — $1,000 · EnvironmentMARICOPA AUDUBON SOCIETY CO EMILY THOMAS — $1,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $900 · EnvironmentTrees Matter — $800 · Environment+1 more — $523 · EnvironmentTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $10,200 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $4,900 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $4,350 · InternationalPCI-MEDIA IMPACT INC — $1,400 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $1,400 · International+1 more — $600 · InternationalCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC — $9,100 · Housing & ShelterUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC — $6,700 · Housing & Shelter
Education$1,131,676Other$317,097Arts & Culture$37,322Human Services$35,721Environment$23,773International$22,850Housing & Shelter$15,800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA NETWORK — $930,000 over 4y, 68% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $170,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PUBLIC RADIO ARIZONA — $22,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA — $20,210 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetONE HUNDRED ANGELS — $17,100 over 4y, 18% of budgetHUMANIST SOCIETY OF GREATER PHOENIX INC — $14,075 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $10,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC — $9,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUNDS ACADEMY — $8,409 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $6,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC — $6,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $5,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $4,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC — $4,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER — $4,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST — $4,610 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $4,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC — $4,025 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED — $3,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCREIGHTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOPULATION CONNECTION — $2,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC — $2,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $2,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY — $2,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $2,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Community ToolBank Inc — $1,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPCI-MEDIA IMPACT INC — $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE TONTO NATIONAL FOREST INC — $1,200 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE — $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY — $1,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMY BROTHERS KEEPER INC — $1,130 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMake Way For Books — $1,016 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator — $1,016 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLEN CANYON INSTITUTE — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARICOPA AUDUBON SOCIETY CO EMILY THOMAS — $1,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE IN POLITICS — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Arizona Community Fou…Thunderbirds CharitiesVirginia G Piper Char…John F Long Foundatio…Ellis Center for Educ…Valley of the Sun Uni…American Express Foun…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…The Steele Foundation…Helios Education Foun…Burton Family Foundat…Libra Foundation
Arizona Community FoundationAZ38.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · John F Long Foundation Inc · Ellis Center for Educational Excellence · Valley of the Sun United Way · American Express Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · The Steele Foundation Inc · Helios Education Foundation · Burton Family Foundation · Libra 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 Goff Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 123 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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