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The John & Sally Godfrey Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of THE JOHN & SALLY GODFREY FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $206k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCOTTY'S HOUSE - CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $205,880 |
| SCOTTY'S HOUSE - RAISE THE PAW MATCH | $30,000 |
| 12TH MAN FOUNDATION | $16,307 |
| BRAZOS VALLEY CARES | $9,000 |
| ST ANDREWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $2,500 |
| TAMU CANCELLOR'S CENTURY COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY | $2,500 |
| SCOTTY'S HOUSE - WOMEN OF COURAGE | $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 (FY18–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% 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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $222k 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
- TATexas A&M Foundation6× · 2017–2023 · $53k · revenue +90%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc4× · 2019–2023 · $34k · revenue +43%
- TATexas A&M University 12th Man Foundation3× · 2019–2024 · $24k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- BVBRAZOS VALLEY MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $10k
- UPUNLIMITED POTENTIAL BRAZOS VALLEYone grant, 2023 · $10k
- BVBRAZOS VALLEY COMMUNITY RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2020 · $6k
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.
To share Christ with others through serving those in need in the brazos valley and surrounding areas or wherever God leads and to bridge the gap by joining churches and other groups in serving together.
To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).
To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health, to encourage broad-based public support of the health care system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…
To engage in fundraising activities in support of Brazos ISD athletics and its students.
To provide financial support for the charitable programs and activities of Voices for Children, Inc. a nonprofit corporation 501(c)(3) that provides advocacy services to children in the child welfare system due to abuse and/or neglect.
To provide quality services and products to the residents and businesses of our community in such a way as to maximize the affordability of safe and decent housing, especially for the low income; and to serve as a vehicle and assist in any…
To build a memorial and educational venue that will honor all veterans of the Brazos Valley.
To deliver the highest value patient experience through quality, safety, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness, enhanced by medical education and research in collaboration with Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).
To stimulate understanding of natural and cultural history, and to encourage responsible stewardship of all natural resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bryan Choir Booster. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 31 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 Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation ↗
- Who funds Twin City Mission ↗
- Who funds Bryan Choir Booster ↗
- Who funds Hospice Brazos Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY CARES INC ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Bryan ISD Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds United Way of the Brazos Valley ↗
- Who funds Aggieland Humane Society ↗
- Who funds 40 DAYS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds PINK 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: Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust · The Donald and Donna Adam Family Foundation · Orr Waldon H and Adele Charitable Trust · Lucille and John B Dougherty Trust · Winkler Nina Astin Trust · Edge Eugene III Charitable Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · Orr James Donald Charitable Trust · Bubba Moore Memorial Group Inc · Mervin and Annete Peters Family Foundation · M Bookman Peters Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Brazos Valley
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 John & Sally Godfrey 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.
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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