· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| GATEWAY CENTER | $1,000 |
| COASTAL GEORGIA HONOR FLIGHT | $1,000 |
| CAMP SUNSHINE | $1,000 |
| ZOE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
77 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. 77 of the 122 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Coastal Georgia Historical Society ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds DEVON C RUBENSTEIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GATEWAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Back the Blue Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fernbank Inc ↗
- Who funds Purposity Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds ST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Goddard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Goddard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cape Ann Museum Inc: 38% of income from government
How this is measured
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