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The Goddard Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$625k
Granted FY2020
15
Grants FY2020
5
States reached
$325k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Philanthropy$526kEducation$148kHealth$83kAnimals$12kFood & Nutrition$11kHousing & Shelter$1kInternational$325Environment$300Other$0
02FY2020 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k10 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $57k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $191k
  • $250k+1 grant · $325k
$6,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDIN$325,392
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDIN$191,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$35,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED$12,000
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$10,000
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDIN$9,532
UCSF FOUNDATION$8,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF CONTRA COSTA$6,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTHERN CALIFOR$5,000
HEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000
DANVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION$5,000
FEEDING AMERICA$4,000
NATIONAL HEMOPHILIA FOUNDATION$4,000
THE TLC FOUNDATION FOR BFRDS$4,000
FOOD BANK OF NEW YORK CITY$1,000
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%STANFORD HEALTH CARE: $15k → 8%COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES: $100 → 9%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTHERN CALIFOR: $5k → 10%THE TLC FOUNDATION FOR BFRDS: $4k → 13%HEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $100 → 14%DUCKS UNLIMITED: $12k → 17%BEST FRIENDS: $250 → 9%MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDIN: $325k → 16%FEEDING AMERICA: $4k → 14%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $35k → 8%CONTRA COSTA HUMANE SOCIETY: $100 → 9%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTHERN CALIFOR: $250 → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $1k → 17%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $100 → 14%MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDIN: $191k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $35k → 8%DANVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%CALIFORNIA STATE PARK FOUNDATION: $100 → 10%NATIONAL HEMOPHILIA FOUNDATION: $4k → 17%FINCA: $225 → 14%MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDIN: $10k → 16%STANFORD FUND: $28k → 8%DANVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%FOOD BANK OF NEW YORK CITY: $1k → 17%THE WILDERNESS FOUNDATION: $100 → 14%STANFORD HEALTH CARE-: $15k → 8%MEALS ON WHEELS OF CONTRA COSTA: $6k → 9%THE ANEURYXM AND AVM FOUNDATION TAA: $3k → 10%WOMEN FOR WOMEN: $100 → 14%STANFORD FUND: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IL
NY
IN
CA
UT
VA
MD
TN
DC
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.

16%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$105k · 6 repeat orgs$568k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +96% since the first grant, against +47% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
14

Total granted

$105k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%
+47%

Still filing today

67%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $562k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
HealthFood & NutritionInternationalAnimalsEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • SH
    STANFORD HEALTH CARE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +96%
  • UB
    UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $30k
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2020 · $23k · revenue -9%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ANEURYXM AND AVM FOUNDATION TAA
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • BA
    BAY AREA RESCUE MISSIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +29%
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.

1
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.

Food & Nutrition
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
4
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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5
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
6
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
7
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
8
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
9
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
10
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
11
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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12
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels Contra Costa Inc. 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

19 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. 19 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDIN: $525,924 · OtherMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDINUC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Other+16 more: $40,300 · Other+16 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $108,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUST…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $23,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALI…STANFORD HEALTH CARE: $30,000 · HealthALS Network: $7,000 · HealthHEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthMEALS ON WHEELS CONTRA COSTA INC: $6,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $4,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $1,000 · Community ImprovementBAY AREA RESCUE MISSION: $1,000 · Human ServicesFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $225 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100 · International
Other$596,224Education$131,000Health$42,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Community Improvement$1,000Human Services$1,000International$325

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $108,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTANFORD HEALTH CARE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDANVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetALS Network: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS CONTRA COSTA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL BLEEDING DISORDERS FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA RESCUE MISSION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONTRA COSTA HUMANE SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Goddard Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Goddard Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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