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.

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.

William N and Janice V Godfrey Family Foundation Trust

William N and Janice V Godfrey Family Foundation Trust at a glance

· 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.

$302k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$30k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% 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

02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k23 grants · $107k
$10k–50k14 grants · $195k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
INTERCHANGE FOOD PANTRY	$10,000
MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
ETHNOS 360	$10,000
YMCA OF GREATER WAUKESHA COUNTY	$10,000
OZAUKEE FOOD ALLIANCE	$10,000
BROOM TREE MINISTRY	$10,000
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER	$10,000
MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$10,000
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM	$10,000
FISHER HOUSE WISCONSIN	$7,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.1M · 39 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against -23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.1M

$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%

-23%

Still filing today

59%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic BenefitReligionEducationHealthOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

FAMILY PROMISE OF OZAUKEE COUNTY
7× · 2019–2025 · $225k · revenue +51%
CATHEDRAL CENTER INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $195k · revenue +81%
MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +5%

Funded once

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ETHNOS360 INC
one grant, 2019 · $10k
SAUKVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -38%
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STARS AND STRIPES HONOR FLIGHT INC
one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -23%

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.

04Its field

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.

Milwaukee Public Theatre Inc

Making the arts accessible to all

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Radio Milwaukee Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Artworks for Milwaukee Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

Milwaukee Excellence Inc

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.

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Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

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.

Employment

Milwaukee Ballet Company Inc

Milwaukee ballet transforms lives and connects communities through inspiring performance, community engagement, education and training.

Arts & Culture

Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

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Journey House Inc

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.

Human Services

Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Skylight Music Theatre Corp

To bring the full spectrum of music theatre works to a wide and diverse audience

Arts & Culture

Milwaukee Parks Foundation Inc

Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.

Environment

Employ Milwaukee Inc

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,…

Employment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Stage Milwaukee; 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.

04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 44 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

16/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,132,500Arts & Culture$323,000Religion$256,500Public Benefit$227,500Human Services$105,500Health$37,500Civil Rights$32,000

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization William N and Janice V Godfrey Family Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William N and Janice V Godfrey Family Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

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By state

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