Tennessee · Private foundation
The Goad Family Foundation
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.
- $203k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 50
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations The Goad Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 51 | $203k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $195k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $203k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $235k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $227k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $175k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| DADA2 Foundation | $115,000 | 4 | 23% |
| Gold Star Mentors INC | $102,000 | 6 | 26% |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $50,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Nashville Rescue Mission | $44,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $44,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hospital Hospitality House Corporation | $36,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Peace Power and Purpose Ministry Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 61% |
| St Luke's Community House Inc | $27,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Graceworks Ministries Inc | $25,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Highland Park Church | $25,000 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($362k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Goad Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 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 Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Ebs Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation · The Frist Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Enchiridion Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation
How this is measured
About The Goad Family Foundation
- How much does The Goad Family Foundation give?
- The Goad Family Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $203,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 50 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Goad Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Education (15%), Public Safety & Disaster (10%).
- Who are The Goad Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: DADA2 Foundation ($115k), Gold Star Mentors INC ($102k), Gary Sinise Foundation ($50k).
- Does The Goad Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Goad Family 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 The Goad Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Hca Healthcare Foundation, Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation.
- Where is The Goad Family Foundation based?
- The Goad Family Foundation is based in TN.
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