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.

The Goad Family Foundation

The Goad Family Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$194kEducation$157kPublic Safety & Disaster$105kHealth$98kScience & Tech$90kReligion$64kHousing & Shelter$64kArts & Culture$53kOther$0

02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k46 grants · $133k
$10k–50k5 grants · $70k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$3.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DADA2 FOUNDATION	$25,000
GOLD STAR MENTORS	$15,000
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION	$10,000
THE LEGION FUND	$10,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$10,000
PERMOBIL FOUNDATION	$8,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK	$7,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT	$7,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE	$6,000
HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE	$6,000
SALVATION ARMY	$5,000
ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE	$5,000
HIGHLAND PARK CHURCH	$5,000
NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION	$5,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$4,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.1M · 63 repeat orgs$159k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+26%

Still filing today

60%

32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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

GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +75%
NR
NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION
6× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue +2%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue +392%

Funded once

CI
CARDIOVASCULAR INSTITUTE OF THE SOUTH
one grant, 2021 · $70k
Y
YMCA
one grant, 2021 · $15k
NS
NASHVILLE STEAM PRESERVATION SOCIETY
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -31%

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.

Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture

Nashville Cares

Nashville cares exists to end the hiv epidemic, promote comprehensive sexual health and end sexual health stigmatization and discrimination through prevention, education, treatment, support, advocacy, and strategic partnership.

Health

Tennessee Health Care Association

To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.

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Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health

Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition

Tirrc is a statewide, immigrant and refugee-led collaboration. our mission is to build power, amplify our voices, and organize communities to advocate for our rights. our vision is a stronger, more inclusive tennessee where people of all…

Civil Rights

Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc

Lead our community's efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter

Tennessee Pharmacists Association

The tennessee pharmacists association advances, protects, and promotes high-quality pharmacist-provided patient care in tennessee.

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The Governor's Foundation for Health and Wellness F/K/a Tn Health & Wellness Fnd

The mission of the governor's foundation for health and wellness is to encourage and enable more tennesseans to lead healthier lives.

—

The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment

Middle Tennessee Research Institute

To facilitate innovative research and education, improve healthcare programs that benefit our nation's veterans, and provide outstanding support and advocacy to the research, education, and training endeavors of the tennessee valley…

Health

Bloodwater Mission Inc

Bloodwater mission, inc. (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization registered in nashville, tennessee that operates an international nonprofit that partners with african community-driven organizations to end water and hiv/aids…

Religion

Nashville Academy of Medicine and Davidson County Medical Society

The nashville academy of medicine is dedicated to supporting physicians in greater nashville who provide quality medical care and are pledged to uphold high standards of conduct. we promote physician health, practice health, and community…

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee; the most unlike its peers is DADA2 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

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 96 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/50

Grantees still filing

35/50

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$597,300Health$196,250Education$177,750Human Services$99,000Philanthropy$69,700Arts & Culture$55,000Housing & Shelter$44,000

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

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.

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN37.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Goad Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Goad Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home