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The Godfrey Family Foundation at a glance

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The Godfrey Family 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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$93kHealth$16kFood & Nutrition$7kEnvironment$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kAnimals$1kRecreation & Sports$1kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$300
Median grant
8
States reached
$483k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$1,500
SECOND HARVEST$1,500
STANFORD MEDICINE$500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$500
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$500
LA RINCONADA CC WILDCAT FOUNDATION$500
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$500
PALO ALTO MED FOUNDATION$300
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$300
CANCER CAREPOINT SAN JOSE$300
ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION$300
AMERICAN AUDUBON SOCIETY$300
ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION$300
AMERICAN HEART ASSOC$300
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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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 10%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

NY
CT
CA
NE
VA
TN
DC
AL
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$114k · 15 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
20

Total granted

$114k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+5%

Still filing today

40%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity 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

  • AU
    AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +51%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +145%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • JT
    JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • OC
    OCEAN CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +45%
  • RT
    Rebuilding Together Peninsulagraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +105%
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
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
2
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
3
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
4
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
5
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
6
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
7
American Lung Association

The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.

Health
8
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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9
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
10
Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech
11
The Heart Foundation

The heart foundation (thf) was created to save lives from heart disease by increasing awareness, educating the public, and supporting innovative research at smidt heart institute at cedars-sinai medical center in los angeles, california.…

Philanthropy
12
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parkinson's Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sainte Claire Historic Preservation Foun. 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

23 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. 23 of the 52 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $90,000 · EducationAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+2 more: $2,800 · EducationSECOND HARVEST: $5,100 · OtherSECOND HARVESTST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $3,500 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S RE…SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $1,900 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD B…ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $1,800 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATI…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $1,400 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIE…JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK: $1,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY - GVL: $900 · Other+29 more: $8,475 · Other+29 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · HealthSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $300 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $300 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $300 · Health+2 more: $300 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 · Human ServicesAARP FOUNDATION: $500 · Human ServicesOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $320 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $200 · EnvironmentRebuilding Together Peninsula: $500 · Housing & ShelterEASTFIELD MING QUONG JUNIOR AUXILIARY: $500 · Community Improvement
Education$92,800Other$24,075Health$6,200Human Services$1,500Environment$1,020Housing & Shelter$500Community Improvement$500

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 budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRebuilding Together Peninsula: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTFIELD MING QUONG JUNIOR AUXILIARY: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLRCC WILDCAT FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $320 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFuture Talent of Silicon Valley: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER CAREPOINT INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINTE CLAIRE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUN: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
American Endowment FoundationOH11.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Godfrey Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Godfrey Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–60%
    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.

    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 52 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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