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Corey C Griffin Charitable Foundation

Following corey's tragic passing on august 16th, 2014, the griffin family and close friends founded the corey c.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2.6M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$4.4MHealth$2.2MYouth Development$1.5MHuman Services$200kCrime & Legal$119kPhilanthropy$15kCommunity Improvement$10k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $3,618,199 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,928,173 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $309,974 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $330k
  • $250k+3 grants · $3.2M
$80,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAWRENCE CATHOLIC ACADEMY$2,638,199
CAMPAIGN FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$295,000
RON BURTON TRAILING VILLAGE INC$280,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$200,000
MY BROTHER'S KEEPER$80,000
NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL$50,000
PAL OF MASSACHUSETTS$30,000
WOOD & CO$15,000
BOSTON WOMEN'S FUND$15,000
YELLOWSTONE CLUB$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $80k → 11%MY BROTHERS KEEPER: $30k → 11%MY BROTHERS KEEPER: $30k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $30k → 11%MY BROTHERS KEEPER: $30k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.1M · 8 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$8.1M
$233k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+122%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    6× · 2018–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +57%
  • RB
    Ron Burton Training Village Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +447%
  • Franciscan Hospital for Children
    5× · 2019–2023 · $250k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • SJ
    SAINT JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $123k
  • AL
    AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSNgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +122%
  • CI
    CHRISTMAS IN THE CITY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Children's Medical Center Corporation

To operate exclusively for the benefit of The Children's Hospital Corporation and its affiliated organizations in the conduct of their charitable, educational and scientific functions.

Health
2
Boston Foundation Inc

As Greater Boston's community foundation, the Boston Foundation devotes its resources to expanding opportunities, improving lives and strengthening communities. See Schedule OThe Foundation fulfills this mission in three principal ways:…

Philanthropy
3
Physicians Organization at Children's Hospital Inc

The Organization operates exclusively for the benefit of the charitable purposes of Boston Children's Hospital (the Hospital) and the affiliated Foundations. It works jointly with the Hospital and the Foundations in developing and…

Health
4
Boston Children's Network Specialty Physicians Inc

BCNSP supports the following three pillars of Boston Children's Hospital's four-part mission: (1) providing care to individuals in the community, (2) improving clinical care to its patients, and (3) educating and training clinicians. In…

Health
5
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Boston Community Pediatrics Inc

Boston community pediatrics (bcp) provides ambulatory pediatric and related health care services to the residents of boston, massachusetts, and surrounding communities. bcp is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses…

Health
8
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

9
Children's Orthopaedic Surgery FoundationInc

The Foundation provides orthopaedic surgery services to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The mission strives to provide care for patients with a wide range of developmental, congenital, neuromuscular, and…

Health
10
Children's Hospital League Corporation

Supports important patient services, medical research, capital improvements and promotes community awareness for boston children's hospital.

Health
11
Boston Children's Heart Foundation Inc

The Foundation provides cardiology services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the field of cardiology…

Health
12
Massachusetts High Technology Council Inc

The Massachusetts High Technology Council, Inc. is an organization of CEOs andsenior executives representing technology companies, professional services firms,and research institutions who are dedicated to creating and sustaining…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Franciscan Hospital for Children and the most unlike its peers is Pal of Massachusetts 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LAWRENCE CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF LAWRENCE MASSACHUSETTS INC — $2,838,199 · OtherLAWRENCE CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF LAWRENCE MASSACHUSETTS INCRon Burton Training Village Inc — $1,505,000 · OtherRon Burton Training Village IncFUND FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS INC — $1,230,000 · OtherFUND FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS INC+2 more — $137,550 · OtherChildren's Hospital Corporation — $1,806,500 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporati…Franciscan Hospital for Children — $250,000 · HealthFranciscan Hospital for Child…AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $100,000 · HealthMy Brothers Keeper Inc — $200,000 · Human ServicesNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL — $150,000 · EducationPAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $119,000 · Youth DevelopmentYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · PhilanthropyBOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyCHRISTMAS IN THE CITY INC — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$5,710,749Health$2,156,500Human Services$200,000Education$150,000Youth Development$119,000Philanthropy$30,000Community Improvement$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $1,806,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRon Burton Training Village Inc — $1,505,000 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetFranciscan Hospital for Children — $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMy Brothers Keeper Inc — $200,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL — $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $119,000 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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 Children's Hospital Corporation
  • Who funds Ron Burton Training Village Inc
  • Who funds Franciscan Hospital for Children
  • Who funds My Brothers Keeper Inc
  • Who funds NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL
  • Who funds PAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC
  • Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC
  • Who funds CHRISTMAS IN THE CITY 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.

The Flatley FoundationMA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Flatley Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Yawkey Foundation II · Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Corey C Griffin Charitable Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation10% of income from government
  • Franciscan Hospital for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Corey C Griffin Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Corey C Griffin Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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