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Francis D & Irene D Griffin Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
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01What it funds
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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
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$991k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PBS SOCAL$6,000
02The need
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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 (FY19–23, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ST ANNE'S: $3k → 14%ST ANNE'S: $3k → 14%THE EVERYCHILD FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%THE EVERYCHILD FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%THE EVERYCHILD FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%THE EVERYCHILD FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%THE EVERYCHILD FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$289k · 21 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
12

Total granted

$289k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+26%

Still filing today

33%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • TS
    THE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $9k · revenue +85%
  • SA
    St Anne's Family Services
    2× · 2019–2021 · $5k · revenue +63%
  • TL
    THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES
    2× · 2019–2022 · $3k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • HF
    HOSPITALLER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • PR
    PACIFIC RESIDENT THEATRE
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • GC
    GOUCHER COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +26%
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.

1
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
2
St Catherine University

We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…

Education
3
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
6
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
7
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
8
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
9
The Heart Foundation

The heart foundation (thf) was created to save lives from heart disease by increasing awareness, educating the public, and supporting innovative research at smidt heart institute at cedars-sinai medical center in los angeles, california.…

Philanthropy
10
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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11
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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12
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The J Paul Getty Trust. 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

11 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. 11 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL: $70,250 · OtherLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOLCORPUS CHRISTI CHURCH: $34,000 · OtherCORPUS CHRISTI CHURCHST RAPHAEL SCHOOL: $20,500 · OtherST RAPHAEL SCHOOLSISTERS OF ST LOUIS: $18,000 · OtherSISTERS OF ST LOUISPACIFIC RSIDENT THEATRE: $15,000 · OtherPACIFIC RSIDENT THEATREKCET: $11,500 · OtherPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF CALIFORNIA: $9,000 · OtherPACIFIC PALISADES LIBRARY: $9,000 · OtherLACMA: $8,750 · OtherPBS SOCAL: $8,500 · OtherCATHEDRAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS: $8,500 · Other+13 more: $32,000 · Other+13 moreThe Everychild Foundation: $30,000 · Human ServicesThe Everychi…St Anne's Family Services: $5,000 · Human ServicesSt Anne's Fa…THE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $9,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $7,000 · EducationGOUCHER COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $2,500 · EducationSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 · HealthTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $4,000 · PhilanthropyOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $4,000 · Environment
Other$245,000Human Services$35,000Education$23,500Health$11,000Philanthropy$4,000Environment$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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
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.

  • Who funds The Everychild Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds St Anne's Family Services ↗
  • Who funds GOUCHER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗

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 …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Francis D & Irene D Griffin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Francis D & Irene D Griffin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Goucher College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–20%
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.

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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