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The John N Goddard Foundation Inc

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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2024
31
Organizations funded FY2023
19%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$350,000
Organizations funded a year
26 to 31
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$21M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 19% of the organizations The John N Goddard Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyPublic BenefitEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving30$1.3M13%
FY202331$1.2M19%
FY202227$1.5M22%
FY202126$1.2M35%
FY202027$1.2Mn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$2.3MEducation$1.1MHousing & Shelter$750kArts & Culture$560kHuman Services$450kEnvironment$350kPhilanthropy$316kReligion$250kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 39 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The John N Goddard Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc: $1,940,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetOur House Inc: $525,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetThe Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia Inc: $367,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetThe Boyce L Ansley School Inc: $280,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetThe Warrior Alliance Inc: $250,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetAtlanta-Fulton Public Library Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetAngel Flight Soars Inc: $185,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetThe Trust for Public Land: $175,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHand in Hand of Glynn Inc: $175,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetSt Simons Land Trust Inc: $175,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetThe University of Georgia Foundation: $77,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHairtostay: $75,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetPath Foundation Inc: $63,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAtlanta Police Athletic Leagueinc: $60,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetHigh Point University: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetShepherd Center Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetFrederica Academy Inc: $46,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChastain Horse Park Ltd: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMill Springs Academy Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPromising Pages Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCrossroads Community Ministries Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetDavidson College: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharlotte Country Day School: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBuckhead Heritage Society Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetPace Academy Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGolden Isles Youth Orchestra Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetThe Study Hall Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWoodward Academy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Launch Pad Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetPhilanthropy Southeast Inc: $8,060 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTrinity School Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAdams Memorial Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetThe Lovett School Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRandolph-Macon Academy: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Christian University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Schenck School: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 37.

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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.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA33.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Fraser-Parker Foundation · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Imlay Foundation Inc · United Way of Bergen County

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.

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About The John N Goddard Foundation Inc

How much does The John N Goddard Foundation Inc give?
The John N Goddard Foundation Inc reported 30 grants totaling $1,330,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The John N Goddard Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (35%), Education (18%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
Who are The John N Goddard Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc ($1.9M), Our House Inc ($525k), The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia Inc ($367k).
Does The John N Goddard Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The John N Goddard Foundation Inc 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 John N Goddard Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, J Bulow Campbell Foundation, Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia.
Where is The John N Goddard Foundation Inc based?
The John N Goddard Foundation Inc is based in GA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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