· 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 $10k6 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OTHER SMALL MISC GRANTS | $16,000 |
| ST JOHNS PREP | $13,568 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINA LAW FOUNDATIO | $5,000 |
| ADVENT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,100 |
| PAGE ROBBINS ADULT CARE | $2,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| ST JUDE | $1,000 |
| JONES CHAPEL MB CHURCH | $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 (FY20–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 1 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $12k · revenue +188%
- MFMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +7%
- MRMothers Refuge2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +179%
Funded once
- UVUnivof Virginia Law School Foundationone grant, 2020 · $5k
- DFDREAM FACTORYone grant, 2024 · $3k
- HCHutchinson Collegeone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient and family-centered care. services will be…
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.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is one of the nation's longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers. Through its historic bond with Vanderbilt University, VUMC cultivates distinguished research and educational…
Children's Mercy is a leading independent children's health organization dedicated to holistic care, translational research, breakthrough innovation, and educating the next generation of caregivers. Together, we transform the health,…
See Disclosure Above.
Fort Sanders Regional 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.
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
To provide common management of the existing and future healthcare delivery operations (the "joint healthcare operations") of the board of trustees of the university of alabama and the university of alabama health services foundation, p.c.
The howard university was established by an act of congress in 1867. the university is an institution that educates students, develops professionals, conducts research, and serves patients through 12 schools of higher education and an…
Mississippi college is a private, co-educational, comprehensive university of liberal arts and sciences and professional studies dedicated to the pursuit of academic excellence. founded in 1826, mississippi college is the oldest…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 67 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 UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS & DEMENTIA SERVICES OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Mothers Refuge ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BBQ RELIEF ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds OLD WEST SPECIAL TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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.
How this is measured
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