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The Goddard 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k54 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $47,500 |
| MERCER UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| WESLEYAN COLLEGE | $17,500 |
| PEACHTREE ROAD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $14,000 |
| ZOO ATLANTA | $8,530 |
| UGA COLLEGE VETINARY MEDICINE WILSON PHARMACY BUILDING | $2,500 |
| CAMP TWIN LAKES | $2,500 |
| GEORGIA FOR GEORGIA INC | $2,190 |
| GEORGIAN STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| VAIL VETERANS PROGRAM | $1,500 |
| ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDENS | $1,080 |
| THE LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| CAMP SUNSHINE | $1,000 |
| ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER | $1,000 |
| COASTAL GEORGIA HONOR FLIGHT | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +20% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- EUEmory University6× · 2020–2025 · $516k · revenue +54%
- TCTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $163k · revenue +19%
- WCWESLEYAN COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- TSTHE SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +52%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +27%
- DCDEVON C RUBENSTEIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -95%
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.
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.
The mission of the grady health foundation is to grow both philanthropic support and broad-based understanding of the critical role that grady health system plays in the metro atlanta region. our focus is to ensure grady health system has…
The georgia veterinary medical association is committed to advancing the veterinary medical profession and supporting the veterinarian's role in improving animal and public health.
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.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
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.
The georgia hospital association (gha) serves approximately 150 hospitals throughout georgia. its purpose is to promote the health and welfare of the public through the development of better health care for all of georgia's citizens. gha…
Navicent health's mission is to elevate health and well-being through compassionate care for all. our values are integrity, respect, ownership, and caring. navicent health, inc. is a nonprofit corporation whose primary purpose is to serve…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Show Safe Corporation. 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 46 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 122 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 Emory University ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds Cherokee County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA FOR GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE INC ↗
- Who funds Coastal Georgia Historical Society ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds DEVON C RUBENSTEIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GATEWAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Back the Blue Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fernbank Inc ↗
- Who funds ST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Purposity Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA 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: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Kelin Foundation · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · The Correll Family Foundation · The John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Colleen & Sam Nunn Family Foundation · Fraser-Parker Foundation · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · The Shearon and Taylor Glover Foundation Inc · Hertz Douglas J Family 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 The Goddard 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.
- Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% 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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