· Private foundation
The John & Sally Godfrey 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $107k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $219k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCOTTY'S HOUSE - CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $218,648 |
| 12TH MAN FOUNDATION | $32,454 |
| SCOTTY'S HOUSE - RAISE THE PAW MATCH | $30,000 |
| UT AUSTIN BRISCOE CENTER FOR AMERICAN HISTORY | $25,000 |
| BRAZOS VALLEY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $10,000 |
| BRYAN CHOIR BOOSTER | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $7,500 |
| ST ANDREWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF TEXAS INC | $5,000 |
| SCOTTY'S HOUSE - WOMEN OF COURAGE | $2,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $2,500 |
| BRYAN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATexas A&M University 12th Man Foundation4× · 2019–2025 · $56k · revenue +70%
- TATexas A&M Foundation6× · 2017–2023 · $53k · revenue +90%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc5× · 2019–2025 · $42k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- BVBRAZOS VALLEY MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $10k
- UPUNLIMITED POTENTIAL BRAZOS VALLEYone grant, 2023 · $10k
- BVBRAZOS VALLEY CARES INCone grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue 0%
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.
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 community-centered prenatal care and health education to medically indigent pregnant women in the Brazos Valley. Comprehensive, accessible and affordable prenatal care and health education are the best ways to improve pregnancy…
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 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 build a memorial and educational venue that will honor all veterans of the Brazos Valley.
To provide guidance and support for persons affected by alcohol and substance abuse.
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 engage in fundraising activities in support of Brazos ISD athletics and its students.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 34 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.
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- Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
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- Who funds 40 DAYS FOR LIFE ↗
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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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The John & Sally Godfrey Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John & Sally Godfrey Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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