· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| ROYAL POINCIANA CHAPEL | $5,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $4,000 |
| SALEM COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREENSBORO | $1,000 |
| WOMEN IN THE WINDOW INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF GREENSBORO | $1,000 |
| STEPUP GREENSBORO | $1,000 |
| GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY | $1,000 |
| SANCTUARY HOUSE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Griffin Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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
How this is measured
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
UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -23%- UWUNITED WAY OF PALM BEACHone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
42 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. 42 of the 74 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 YWCA Greensboro ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN THE WINDOW INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- 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 ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Griffin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Griffin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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