· Private foundation
Dorothy G Griffin Charitable Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k6 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $58k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION (GRATWICK SOCIETY) | $200,000 |
| ROME MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| ROME WESLEYAN CHURCH - BREAD OF LIFE COMMUNITY CENTER | $15,000 |
| CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS | $12,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| JERVIS PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| ROME RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION - CNY CHAPTER | $5,000 |
| ROME VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL FUND | $2,500 |
| MOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH STSTEM FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CURE SANFILIPPO FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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 +90% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2019, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- RMROME MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $500k · revenue +351% · 52% of their budget
- RRROME RESCUE MISSION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +160%
- CPCLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC2× · 2018–2019 · $23k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- SPST PAUL'S CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $100k
- TVTHE VARFLEX EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IIone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -86% · 95% of their budget
- SPSUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE - COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCEone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities
We, st. joseph's medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's medical is a member of st. joseph's health and trinity health.
St. camillus is a residential healthcare facility dedicated to caring for life through a broad range of healthcare services. the organization operates a 284 bed skilled nursing facility which includes a 20 bed unit dedicated to traumatic…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Flight Central Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Varflex Educational Foundation Ii. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 35 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 ROME MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VARFLEX EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION II ↗
- Who funds ROME RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE CARING PARTNERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cure Sanfilippo Foundation ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds ONEIDA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL OF ROME NY INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD ↗
- Who funds MERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL 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: The Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc · Hazen B Hinman Sr Foundation Inc · Utica National Group Foundation Inc · Indium Corporation and Macartney Family Foundation Inc · Bank of Utica Foundation Inc · Sears Family Foundation of Rome Ny · The Griffin Charitable Foundation Inc · Rome Community Foundation · Joseph and Inez E Carbone Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Dorothy G 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 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.
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