Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Good Words 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.
- $945k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2024
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 28
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $19M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Good Words Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 16 | $905k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $1.1M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $1.0M | 57% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $1.1M | 43% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $1.0M | 41% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $975k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pro Publica Inc | $1,000,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Center for Public Integrity | $507,500 | 5 | 3% |
| The 19th News | $500,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Civic News Company | $500,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Capital B News Inc | $425,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church | $335,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Nebraska Journalism Trust | $300,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation | $156,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Club of Madrid Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 31% |
| Trevor Project Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Good Words Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 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: The Ford Foundation · Institute for Nonprofit News · Park Foundation Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf · The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · John S and James L Knight Foundation · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About Good Words Foundation
- How much does Good Words Foundation give?
- Good Words Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $945,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 28 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Good Words Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (42%), Public Benefit (22%), Education (10%).
- Who are Good Words Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Pro Publica Inc ($1.0M), The Center for Public Integrity ($508k), The 19th News ($500k).
- Does Good Words Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Good Words Foundation 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 Good Words Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, Institute for Nonprofit News, Park Foundation Inc.
- Where is Good Words Foundation based?
- Good Words Foundation is based in DC.
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