· Private foundation
The Goodfriend 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 $10k3 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $124k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
- $250k+1 grant · $388k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TENNESSEE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $387,500 |
| UNIV OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLE | $50,000 |
| EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| KNOXVILLE JEWISH ALLIANCE | $36,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE DESERT | $25,250 |
| RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MCMINNMEIGS COUNTIES | $17,500 |
| TEMPLE BETH-EL | $15,000 |
| LADY VOL BOOSTER CLUB INC | $10,000 |
| RANCHO HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| SINATRA CHILDREN'S CHARITY | $2,000 |
| THE KOINONIA FOUNDATION | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 34% of The Goodfriend Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in TN; read by stated purpose it is 64% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- TWTENNESSEE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +45%
- ETEAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $700k · revenue +105%
- KJKNOXVILLE JEWISH ALLIANCE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $318k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- TWTN WESLEYAN COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $400k
- VLVOLUNTEER LEGACY INCone grant, 2024 · $85k · revenue +1%
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museumone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +9%
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.
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Roane County 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helen Ross Mcnabb Foundation and the most unlike its peers is East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 53 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 TENNESSEE WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE JEWISH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER LEGACY INC ↗
- Who funds RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MCMINN AND MEIGS COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds EMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CLASSICS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds US ISRAEL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
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: East Tennessee Foundation · The Clayton Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Pya Foundation · Food City Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Goodfriend 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.
- Autism Society of America Inc — 8% 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.