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Judith Whitney Godwin Foundation for the Arts Inc at a glance

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Judith Whitney Godwin Foundation for the Arts Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$152k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$225kPhilanthropy$73kEducation$27k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $142k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMARGO FOUNDATION$30,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE DECCAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION$27,000
LOWER EAST SIDE PRINTSHOP$25,000
PLAINS ART MUSEUM$25,000
CATALOGUE RAISONNE SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION$20,000
THE AAMC FOUNDATION$15,000
BOMB MAGAZINE$5,000
APPRAISERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA$5,000
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.

US giving: 80% of grant dollars ($260k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 20% that went abroad ($65k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%FROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONS: $11k → 10%CATALOGUE RAISONNE SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 16%THE AAMC FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%BOMB MAGAZINE: $5k → 20%ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART: $22k → 14%PLAINS ART MUSEUM: $25k → 12%LOWER EAST SIDE PRINTSHOP: $25k → 17%BOMB MAGAZINE: $5k → 20%LOWER EAST SIDE PRINTSHOP: $20k → 17%ELIZABETH FOUNDATION: $8k → 17%APPRAISERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $10k → 17%APPRAISERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $5k → 17%HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7k → 17%THE FEMINIST INSTITUTE: $15k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE DECCAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $40k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE DECCAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $27k → 17%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.

Beyond the US: 20% of all-years giving ($65k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
France$65k · 2 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$202k · 5 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$202k
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
+31%

Still filing today

80%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’24’25
Arts & CultureSocial ScienceEducationOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE DECCAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $67k · revenue -19% · 34% of their budget
  • CF
    CAMARGO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $65k
  • LE
    LOWER EAST SIDE PRINTSHOP INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $45k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • AO
    ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART
    one grant, 2024 · $22k
  • TD
    TFI DIGITAL ARCHIVE
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • From The Heart Productionsgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +132%
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
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
2
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
3
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
4
The American Federation of Arts Inc

The american federation of arts initiates and organizes a national and international program of art exhibitions, publications, and educational activities to benefit the museum community and enrich the public's experience and understanding…

Arts & Culture
5
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
6
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
7
Berggruen Institute
Education
8
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
9
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
10
New Art Association
Arts & Culture
11
Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies

The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) is dedicated to enhancing the United States' image abroad through American Art. Founded as a public-private, non-partisan partnership in 1986, FAPE works with the U.S. Department…

Arts & Culture
12
International Print Center New York

A non-profit organization, print center new york champions printmaking as an art form that drives invention, collaboration, and access, and plays a vital role in society. through exhibitions, public programs, education, and artistic…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aamc Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Friends of the Deccan Heritage Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAMARGO FOUNDATION: $65,000 · OtherCAMARGO FOUNDATIONLOWER EAST SIDE PRINTSHOP INC: $45,000 · OtherLOWER EAST SIDE PRINTSHOP INCARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART: $22,000 · OtherARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ARTCATALOGUE RAISONNE SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION LTD: $20,000 · OtherCATALOGUE RAISONNE SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION LTDAPPRAISERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 · OtherAPPRAISERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INCNEW ART PUBLICATIONS INC: $10,000 · OtherNEW ART PUBLICATIONS INCELIZABETH FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE DECCAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $67,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE DECCAN HERITAGE F…PLAINS ART MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePLAINS ART MUSEUMTHE AAMC FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AAMC FOUNDATIONFrom The Heart Productions: $11,000 · Arts & CultureFrom The Heart ProductionsTFI DIGITAL ARCHIVE: $15,000 · Social ScienceTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · Education
Other$184,500Arts & Culture$118,000Social Science$15,000Education$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE DECCAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $67,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetLOWER EAST SIDE PRINTSHOP INC: $45,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetPLAINS ART MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTFI DIGITAL ARCHIVE: $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetAPPRAISERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE AAMC FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions: $11,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW ART PUBLICATIONS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 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.

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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 Judith Whitney Godwin Foundation for the Arts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Judith Whitney Godwin Foundation for the Arts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Judith Whitney Godwin Foundation for the Arts Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Judith Whitney Godwin Foundation for the Arts Inc 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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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