· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $195k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY PROMISE OF OZAUKEE COUNTY | $30,000 |
| THE CATHEDRAL CENTER | $30,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN HOMES & SERVICES FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TIPPECANOE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| OZAUKEE FOOD ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER | $10,000 |
| BROOM TREE MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| ETHNOS 360 | $10,000 |
| MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| INTERCHANGE FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER WAUKESHA COUNTY | $10,000 |
| THE CHRISTIAN BROADCAST NETWORK | $7,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +6% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
FAMILY PROMISE OF OZAUKEE COUNTY7× · 2019–2025 · $225k · revenue +51%
CATHEDRAL CENTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $195k · revenue +81%
MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- EIETHNOS360 INCone grant, 2019 · $10k
SAUKVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -38%- SASTARS AND STRIPES HONOR FLIGHT INCone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -23%
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.
Making the arts accessible to all
To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…
ArtWorks mission is preparing youth for tomorrow by providing transferable career skills through arts internships today. More than 1,450 high school students have completed ArtWorks internships since our inception.
The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.
The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.
Milwaukee ballet transforms lives and connects communities through inspiring performance, community engagement, education and training.
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
Journey house empowers families on milwaukee's near southside to move out of poverty by offering adult education, youth development, workforce readiness, and family engagement.
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
To bring the full spectrum of music theatre works to a wide and diverse audience
Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.
The mission of employ milwaukee, inc. is to build a strong workforce development system by planning, coordinating, collaborating and monitoring workforce initiatives with businesses, partners and community stakeholders at the local,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Stage Milwaukee and the most unlike its peers is Inner Beauty Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 44 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 FAMILY PROMISE OF OZAUKEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Basics In Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds TELLING THE TRUTH INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUR NEXT GENERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Inner Beauty Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARK PEOPLE OF MILWAUKEE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS WORKING IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS MATTER INC ↗
- Who funds ABOVE THE CLOUDS INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAUKVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
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: 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
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 William N and Janice V Godfrey Family Foundation Trust 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.