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Francis D & Irene D Griffin Foundation

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.

$6k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2023
13%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 22
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$991k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Francis D & Irene D Griffin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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 arriving1$6k0%
FY202316$62k13%
FY202216$62k19%
FY202116$68k25%
FY20208$60k25%
FY201922$59kn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

Education$140kReligion$68kArts & Culture$53kHuman Services$35kHealth$14kPhilanthropy$5kEnvironment$4kAnimals$2kOther$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
Corpus Christi Church$34,0005n/a
The Everychild Foundation$30,00051%
St Raphael School$20,5005n/a
Sisters of St Louis$18,0005n/a
Saint John's Health Center Foundation$10,00040%
Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of California$9,0002n/a
The Santa Monica College Foundation$9,00040%
Immaculate Conception Academy$5,0002n/a
St Anne's Family Services$5,00020%
Goucher College$5,00010%
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All grantees of Francis D & Irene D Griffin Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Corpus Christi Church$34,0005n/a
The Everychild Foundation$30,00051%
St Raphael School$20,5005n/a
Sisters of St Louis$18,0005n/a
Saint John's Health Center Foundation$10,00040%
Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of California$9,0002n/a
The Santa Monica College Foundation$9,00040%
Immaculate Conception Academy$5,0002n/a
St Anne's Family Services$5,00020%
Goucher College$5,00010%
The J Paul Getty Trust$4,00020%
Ocean Conservancy$4,00020%
Immaculate Conception School$3,5002n/a
The Library Foundation of Los Angeles$2,50020%
American Heart Association Inc$1,00010%
Roman Archbishop of Los Angeles a Corporation Sole$1,0001n/a
A Place Called Home$1,00010%

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($153k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Francis D & Irene D Griffin Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Everychild Foundation: $30,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSaint John's Health Center Foundation: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Santa Monica College Foundation: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Anne's Family Services: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGoucher College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe J Paul Getty Trust: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Conservancy: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Library Foundation of Los Angeles: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Place Called Home: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 10.

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.

California Community FoundationCA14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Francis D & Irene D Griffin Foundation

How much does Francis D & Irene D Griffin Foundation give?
Francis D & Irene D Griffin Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $6,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 22 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Francis D & Irene D Griffin Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Religion (21%), Arts & Culture (16%).
Who are Francis D & Irene D Griffin Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Corpus Christi Church ($34k), The Everychild Foundation ($30k), St Raphael School ($21k).
Does Francis D & Irene D Griffin Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Francis D & Irene D Griffin Foundation 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 Francis D & Irene D Griffin Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Francis D & Irene D Griffin Foundation based?
Francis D & Irene D Griffin Foundation is based in CA.

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 34 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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