· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of its 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 34% of The Goodfriend Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 64%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +92%
Funded once
- TWTN WESLEYAN COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $400k
- VLVOLUNTEER LEGACY INCone grant, 2024 · $85k · revenue +1%
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museumgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +25%
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.
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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…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
To be a successful physician led, professionally managed medical practice that benefits our patients and our community, while supporting the UT Health Science Center's mission through clinical excellence, financial responsibility and a…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 53 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 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 US ISRAEL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLASSICS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Goodfriend Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Goodfriend Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Autism Society of America Inc: 8% of income from government
How this is measured
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