· Private foundation
Griffin Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k47 grants · $152k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $184k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEXICO RECREATION CORP | $25,000 |
| AUDRAIN COUNTY SHELTER RESOURCE | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA | $20,000 |
| HANDI-SHOP INC | $20,000 |
| MOBERLY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| PRESSER HALL RESTORATION SOCIETY | $14,000 |
| HANDI-SHOP INC | $12,500 |
| HISTORICAL & PRESERVATION SOCIETY | $12,000 |
| LAURA MILLER GEORGE HELP CENTER | $10,000 |
| MOBERLY AREA COMM COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| AUDRAIN COUNTY SHELTER RESOURCES | $10,000 |
| MOBERLY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| STATE FAIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $8,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH MINISTRY TEAM | $8,000 |
| COLUMBIA COLLEGE | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- ACAUDRAIN COUNTY SHELTER RESOURCE COALITION8× · 2017–2024 · $72k · revenue +408%
- HIHandi-Shop Inc3× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +352%
- MRMEXICO RECREATION CORPORATION2× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +240%
Funded once
- NHNOBLE HEALTHone grant, 2021 · $25k
- UMUNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF MEXICOone grant, 2023 · $22k
- SSSIMMONS STABLE PRESERVATION FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +229%
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.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Midamerica nazarene university (mnu) is a transformative university that nurtures christlike community, pursues academic excellence, and cultivates a passion to serve. (continued on schedule o)mnu is a comprehensive liberal arts university…
Shaped by christian principles, mcmurry university challenges students to examine our complex world from multiple perspectives in preparation for lives of leadership, service and professional success.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
As a catholic university, mount st. mary's graduates ethical leaders who are inspired by a passion for learning and lead lives of significance in service to god and others.
Mid-america christian university prepares students through a wesleyan perspective to create, collaborate, and innovate to solve local and global problems for the glory of god through jesus christ and the good of society.
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
Lourdes university, rooted in catholic and franciscan traditions, provides a values-centered education that enriches lives and advances academic excellence through the integration of the liberal arts and professional studies.
The morningside university experience cultivates a passion for life-long learning and a dedication to ethical leadership and civic responsibility.
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
Mississippi college is a private, co-educational, comprehensive university of liberal arts and sciences and professional studies dedicated to the pursuit of academic excellence. founded in 1826, mississippi college is the oldest…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Baptist University and the most unlike its peers is Williams Family Support Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 174 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 AUDRAIN COUNTY SHELTER RESOURCE COALITION ↗
- Who funds Handi-Shop Inc ↗
- Who funds MEXICO RECREATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MEXICO SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Historical and Preservation Society ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT MID-MO ↗
- Who funds VANDALIA RECREATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Mexico Area Family YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds Audrain County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds SIMMONS STABLE PRESERVATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PRESSER ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEXICO PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
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: Miriam a Edmonston Charitable Foundation · Allen P and Josephine B Green · Consolidated Cares · W Basil & Nina Leach Charitable Trust · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · T Michal Flottman Scholarship Trust · Jack J Isgur Foundation · Missouri Colleges Fund Inc · Orscheln Industries Foundation Inc · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Hardin Memorial Scholarship Foundation · Virginia Thomas Charitable 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 Griffin Family Foundation Inc 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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