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The Goodall 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| On the Rock a Goodall Homes Foundation | $65,000 |
| St Joseph's School | $25,773 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| Safe Place for Animals | $10,000 |
| Elevate Ethiopia | $10,000 |
| Dismas House | $5,630 |
| MBRC Foundation | $5,500 |
| On The Avenue Foundation of TN Inc | $5,500 |
| Grace Place Ministry | $5,000 |
| Living Sent Ministries | $2,500 |
| Welch College | $2,500 |
| Wreaths Across America | $2,000 |
| Recovery Court of Sumner County Inc | $2,000 |
| Unlimited Potential | $1,000 |
| Gallatin Day Care Center | $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 (FY17–25, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 11 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; $11k 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
- EEELEVATE ETHIOPIA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $43k · revenue +326%
- CACHILDREN ARE PEOPLE RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $41k · revenue +14%
- DADAVIDSON ACADEMY5× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- BUBelmont Universityone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +25%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- PCPREGNANCY CARE CENTERone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +18%
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.
Biblical counseling
The sanctuary counseling center provides affordable counseling to full-time vocational ministry workers and their families in memphis.
To restore lives to wholeness - mentally, emotionally, & spiritually.
We are a christ-centered intensive outpatient treatment center located in knoxville tn. our iop model follows a 12-week program that is christ-centered and clinically informed.
Door of hope discipleship ministry is a biblical counseling ministry located in columbus, north carolina, offering discipleship both in group settings at various conferences and teaching ministries and on a personal level through…
To teach individuals how to apply the wisdom and depth of the bible's grace-centered message to the problems of daily living; and through various means, work to restore chirst to counseling and christ-centered counseling to the church.
Through relational discipleship, soul care counseling, and much more we teach men to establish their identity in christ, their life around scripture, and their emotional and spiritually health in the promises of god. helping them to…
Making Biblical counseling from licensed mental health professionals accessible to anyone who has need regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
To serve the body of christ by restoring the saints, growing the church and supporting leadership. our desire is to bring emotional, relational and spiritual health to those inside and outside the body of christ.
To provide quality care, facilities and supportive services for adults with a developmental disability, traumatic brain injury or mental illness. being enabled by god, we strive to provide an intentionally christian environment and program…
At lifegate counseling center at peachtree, our vision is to foster an environment in which lives are transformed, relationships are reconciled and hope is found. we offer a vast array of faith-sensitive physotherapeutic services and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Life Connectors Inc. 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 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 22% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 146 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 ON THE ROCK A GOODALL HOMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Safe Place for Animals ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE ETHIOPIA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN ARE PEOPLE RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIDSON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds DISMAS INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING SENT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MBRC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND MILE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
- Who funds ON THE AVENUE FOUNDATION OF TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Power of Pink Inc ↗
- Who funds WELCH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds GRACE PLACE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY COURT OF SUMNER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN SHALOM ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLICAL CONCEPTS GROUP HOME ↗
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: Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation · Jc Garrett III Family Foundation · Bruce Family Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Andrea Waitt Carlton Family Foundation · Dettwiller Foundation · Tennessee Health Foundation Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist 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 Goodall Family 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.
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% 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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