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Goddard Family Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k25 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY | $10,000 |
| THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR GUN RIGHTS | $10,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| MIDDLE CREEK CHURCH | $5,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $5,000 |
| ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| AMERICA FIRST LEGAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WESLEY WILLOWS | $5,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH | $3,000 |
| UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–26, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2026, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- IPILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE8× · 2019–2026 · $72k · revenue +2%
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION10× · 2017–2026 · $61k · revenue +63%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC8× · 2019–2026 · $37k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- AHAUBURN HIGH SCHOOL JROTCone grant, 2018 · $15k
- FRFOX RIVER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $10k
- TPTEA PARTY PATRIOTSone grant, 2025 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Rockhurst is a comprehensive university and a supportive community that forms lifelong learners in the catholic, jesuit, liberal arts tradition who engage with the complexities of our world and serve others as compassionate, thoughtful…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Foundation for Gun Rights Inc. 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.
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 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 54 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR GUN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds SHATTUCK-ST MARY'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S-SEWANEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK HOUSE KIDS ↗
- Who funds America First Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEY WILLOWS ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER CARE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD AREA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds EL HOGAR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON GARDENS ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern IL · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable Foundation · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Sjostrom & Sons Foundation · Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation · Blazer Foundation · Guy Reno Family Foundation · Ralph J Baudhuin Foundation · John & Linda Anderson Charitable 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 Goddard 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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