How much does The James and Geraldine Godfrey Foundation give?

The James and Geraldine Godfrey Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $258,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The James and Geraldine Godfrey Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (22%), Education (18%), Public Benefit (16%).

Who are The James and Geraldine Godfrey Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Washington Women in Need ($127k), Mercy Ships International ($75k), Shriners Hospitals for Children ($70k).

Does The James and Geraldine Godfrey Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The James and Geraldine Godfrey Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The James and Geraldine Godfrey Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Farrell Family Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation.

Where is The James and Geraldine Godfrey Foundation based?

The James and Geraldine Godfrey Foundation is based in WA.

The James and Geraldine Godfrey Foundation

The James and Geraldine Godfrey Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The James and Geraldine Godfrey 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.

$259k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$40k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$321kEducation$253kPublic Benefit$233kYouth Development$146kHuman Services$119kInternational$81kHousing & Shelter$55kPublic Safety & Disaster$55kOther$0

02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k14 grants · $54k
$10k–50k14 grants · $205k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER	$40,000
WASHINGTON WOMEN IN NEED	$30,000
TREEHOUSE OF WA	$15,000
FRIENDS OF YOUTH	$15,000
TURNING POINT USA	$15,000
BOOKS AND BRICKS GLOBAL	$10,000
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES	$10,000
TUNNELS TO TOWERS	$10,000
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	$10,000
CHILD HAVEN	$10,000
CATO INSTITUE	$10,000
FULCRUM FOUNDATION	$10,000
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION	$10,000
SHRINER'S HOSPITAL	$10,000
JUDICIAL WATCH	$7,500

02The need

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 (FY19–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 41 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+23%

Still filing today

54%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther

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

Mercy Ships International
7× · 2018–2024 · $75k · revenue +114%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +126%
CI
CATO INSTITUTE
7× · 2019–2025 · $60k · revenue +108%

Funded once

FF
FREEDOM FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $10k
SC
SEATTLE CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOLgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +192%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +98%

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.

United States Naval Institute

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.

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Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

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Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

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Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International

People Inc

People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…

Human Services

The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education

Liberty Justice Center

To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…

Crime & Legal

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture

National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

39 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. 39 of the 63 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/39

Grantees still filing

26/39

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$886,065Health$187,250Public Benefit$152,750International$80,000Youth Development$50,000Human Services$44,200Education$41,000

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.

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.

Seattle FoundationWA14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home