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William N and Janice V Godfrey Family Foundation Trust

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.

$302k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
37
Grants FY2025
37
Organizations funded FY2024
3%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
31 to 37
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$5.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations William N and Janice V Godfrey Family Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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
FY2025still arriving37$302k3%
FY202437$292k3%
FY202337$300k3%
FY202237$335k5%
FY202135$295k14%
FY202031$290k10%
FY201931$301kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$560kReligion$524kArts & Culture$442kFood & Nutrition$104kCivil Rights$102kHuman Services$99kEducation$89kHealth$38kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Family Promise of Ozaukee County$225,00077%
Cathedral Center Inc$195,00071%
Elmbrook Church$110,0007n/a
Tippecanoe Presbyterian Church$105,0007n/a
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc$80,00070%
Basics In Milwaukee Inc$79,50075%
Milwaukee Art Museum Inc$70,00070%
Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc$70,00070%
Telling the Truth Inc$61,50061%
Fisher House Wisconsin Inc$37,50071%
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of William N and Janice V Godfrey Family Foundation Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Family Promise of Ozaukee County$225,00077%
Cathedral Center Inc$195,00071%
Elmbrook Church$110,0007n/a
Tippecanoe Presbyterian Church$105,0007n/a
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc$80,00070%
Basics In Milwaukee Inc$79,50075%
Milwaukee Art Museum Inc$70,00070%
Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc$70,00070%
Telling the Truth Inc$61,50061%
Fisher House Wisconsin Inc$37,50071%
First Stage Milwaukee$35,00070%
Our Next Generation Inc$32,00071%
Next Door Foundation Inc$32,00070%
Inner Beauty Center Inc$30,00077%
Milwaukee Public Museum Inc$27,50070%
Miami University$24,5007n/a
McPreparatory School of Wisconsin Inc$20,00040%
Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Inc$20,00020%
The Park People of Milwaukee County Inc$18,00071%
Evangelical Child and Family Agency$14,00050%
Milwaukee County War Memorial Inc$14,00070%
Artists Working in Education Inc$12,50071%
Kids Matter Inc$12,00050%
Above the Clouds Inc$11,00051%
Lighthouse Youth Center Inc$10,50050%
Discovery World Ltd$10,50050%
Ethnos360 Inc$10,0001n/a
Saukville Community Food Pantry Inc$10,00010%
Stars and Stripes Honor Flight Inc$2,50010%
Seal Inc$2,0001n/a
Next Act Theatre Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($732k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget William N and Janice V Godfrey Family Foundation Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFamily Promise of Ozaukee County: $225,000 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetCathedral Center Inc: $195,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetMilwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc: $80,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBasics In Milwaukee Inc: $79,500 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetMilwaukee Art Museum Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMilwaukee Repertory Theater Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTelling the Truth Inc: $61,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFisher House Wisconsin Inc: $37,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetFirst Stage Milwaukee: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOur Next Generation Inc: $32,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetNext Door Foundation Inc: $32,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetInner Beauty Center Inc: $30,000 over 7y, 6.7% of budgetMilwaukee Public Museum Inc: $27,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMcPreparatory School of Wisconsin Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMilwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Park People of Milwaukee County Inc: $18,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetEvangelical Child and Family Agency: $14,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMilwaukee County War Memorial Inc: $14,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetArtists Working in Education Inc: $12,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetKids Matter Inc: $12,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAbove the Clouds Inc: $11,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLighthouse Youth Center Inc: $10,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDiscovery World Ltd: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSaukville Community Food Pantry Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetStars and Stripes Honor Flight Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNext Act Theatre Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 26.

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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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI34.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation Inc · Milwaukee Jewish Federation 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.

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About William N and Janice V Godfrey Family Foundation Trust

How much does William N and Janice V Godfrey Family Foundation Trust give?
William N and Janice V Godfrey Family Foundation Trust reported 37 grants totaling $302,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 37 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does William N and Janice V Godfrey Family Foundation Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (26%), Religion (25%), Arts & Culture (21%).
Who are William N and Janice V Godfrey Family Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Family Promise of Ozaukee County ($225k), Cathedral Center Inc ($195k), Elmbrook Church ($110k).
Does William N and Janice V Godfrey Family Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does William N and Janice V Godfrey Family Foundation Trust 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 William N and Janice V Godfrey Family Foundation Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Baird Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc.
Where is William N and Janice V Godfrey Family Foundation Trust based?
William N and Janice V Godfrey Family Foundation Trust is based in WI.

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 44 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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