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Griffin Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREENSBORO DAY SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER | $9,202 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO | $5,000 |
| ROYAL POINCIANA CHAPEL | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $4,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| SALEM COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY | $1,000 |
| WOMEN IN THE WINDOW INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| SANCTUARY HOUSE | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREENSBORO | $1,000 |
| SENIOR RESOURCES OF GUILFORD | $1,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $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 (FY17–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Griffin Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +13% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- GIGreensboro Independent School Corp9× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +71%
- WFWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL4× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +4%
- TNTHE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER4× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +245%
Funded once
- TFTHE FOUR ARTSone grant, 2021 · $11k
- UWUNITED WAY OF PALM BEACHone grant, 2021 · $10k
UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -23%
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.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Goodwill builds pathways that help people pursue the life they want to achieve. goodwill exists to help people see possibilities, seize opportunities, and prosper. we partner with individuals to identify their strengths, interests and…
Together with its diverse communities, the organization collects objects and stories, connects generations, and challenges people to explore our city's past, present and future. the museum sparks wonder through bold exhibitions and…
Greensboro opera is a community-based company dedicated to fostering the growth of opera and to presenting professional productions of the highest artistic caliber for the enjoyment, education, and enrichment of the triad region of north…
The mission of the greensboro symphony orchestra, inc. is to enrich the cultural life of greensboro, nc and surrounding areas through the development, production, and promotion of the highest quality music and music education programs.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Providing standards, guidelines, and procedures to those members engaged in practice of the real estate profession
To recruit new businesses to winston-salem and forsyth county in order to facilitate growth and economic diversification in the area.
To serve as greensboro, north carolina's principal economic and community development organization. our goal is to strategically develop a vibrant community that creates, expands, and attracts business while advancing the quality of life…
The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…
Goodwill industries of central north carolina, inc.'s mission is improving lives and enriching communities through the power of work
The greenwood genetic center is a nonprofit institute centered on clinical genetic services, diagnostic laboratory testing, educational programs and resources, and research. with a focus on compassionate patient care and innovative…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Theatre of Greensboro Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hanley Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 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. 42 of the 74 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 Greensboro Independent School Corp ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds TRIAD STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN THE WINDOW INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA Greensboro ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF GREENSBORO NC INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN HILL CENTER FOR NORTH CAROLINA ART ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds Sanctuary House Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF GREENSBORO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP ↗
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: Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Griffin Endowment · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Cemala Foundation Inc · The Hummel Family Fund Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I · The Anonymous Fund · Well-Spring Retirement Community Inc · Smith Richardson Foundation Inc · Gorrell Family Foundation Inc
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 Griffin Family 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
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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