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Griffin Phoenix Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$302k
Granted FY2024still arriving
76
Grants FY2024still arriving
23
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$103kInternational$65kAnimals$52kHuman Services$47kEnvironment$29kHousing & Shelter$18kFood & Nutrition$16kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 76 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k75 grants · $252k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$4,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIVITY OF CHRIST GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH$50,000
THE SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$8,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF MARIN$8,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$8,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$8,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$6,000
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION NATIONAL OFFICER$4,000
PEACEFUL VALLEY DONKEY RESCUE$4,000
SMILE TRAIN$4,000
PROJECT OPEN HAND$4,000
FEED THE CHILDREN$4,000
FEED THE HUNGRY INC$4,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$4,000
BIDEAWEE INC$4,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED$4,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $2k → 12%WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE: $2k → 22%BAY AREA RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $300 → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%BOYS TOWN: $200 → 12%WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE: $450 → 22%BAY AREA RESCUE MISSION: $400 → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $200 → 12%WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE: $300 → 22%BAY AREA RESCUE MISSION: $300 → 9%WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE: $300 → 22%BAY AREA RESCUE MISSION: $300 → 9%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $300 → 8%COVENANT HOUSE: $4k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $400 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $300 → 17%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF MARIN: $8k → 8%COVENANT HOUSE: $300 → 17%FEED THE HUNGRY INC: $4k → 7%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF MARIN: $400 → 8%WHISTLESTOP: $400 → 8%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF MARIN: $300 → 8%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF MARIN: $300 → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
SD
IA
IN
PA
CA
UT
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$203k · 56 repeat orgs$152k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
16

Total granted

$203k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+19%

Still filing today

71%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsInternationalPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +78%
  • SV
    ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +54%
  • INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITY OF NORTHERN CA
    one grant, 2020 · $700
  • SA
    SENIOR ACCESS TX
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue -48%
  • SC
    SIERRA CLUB (JOHN MUIR SOCIETY)
    one grant, 2020 · $400
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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
3
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
4
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
5
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
6
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
7
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
8
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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9
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
10
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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11
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
12
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

69 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. 69 of the 104 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/69
Grantees still filing
47/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIVITY OF CHRIST GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherNATIVITY OF CHRIST GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCHHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $9,000 · Other+55 more: $129,050 · Other+55 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $11,200 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN…THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $8,000 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HO…American Diabetes Association: $5,400 · HealthAmerican Diabete…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $4,800 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISE…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $4,400 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPL…PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $4,400 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUN…MAYO CLINIC: $4,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICAmerican Heart Association Inc: $4,000 · HealthAmerican Heart A…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $2,800 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITA…Macular Degeneration Association: $2,000 · Health+2 more: $1,100 · HealthST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY: $9,400 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DE…COVENANT HOUSE: $5,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUS…CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $4,000 · Human ServicesCAL FARLEY'S …FEED THE HUNGRY INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesFEED THE HUNG…CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN APP…WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC: $3,550 · Human ServicesWOMEN AGAINST…BAY AREA RESCUE MISSION: $3,400 · Human ServicesBAY AREA RESC…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,200 · Human ServicesAmerican Nati…GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,800 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FO…Father Flanagan's Boys' Home: $2,400 · Human ServicesFather Flanag…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,400 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRI…+1 more: $400 · Human ServicesPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $5,400 · AnimalsPEOPLE FOR…NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $5,200 · AnimalsNATIONAL W…BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $4,100 · AnimalsBEST FRIEN…BIDEAWEE INC: $4,100 · AnimalsBIDEAWEE I…JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $4,000 · AnimalsJANE GOODA…Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc: $4,000 · AnimalsPeaceful V…MUTTVILLE: $4,000 · AnimalsMUTTVILLEMUTTS WITH A MISSION: $2,100 · AnimalsMUTTS WITH…+2 more: $1,300 · AnimalsINT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC: $5,700 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $5,200 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,400 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $2,000 · International+1 more: $400 · InternationalCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $5,000 · PhilanthropyMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $2,800 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $2,400 · PhilanthropyWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $5,200 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $2,000 · Environment
Other$188,050Health$52,100Human Services$44,550Animals$34,200International$16,700Philanthropy$14,200Environment$12,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $11,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY: $9,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC: $5,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $5,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $5,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $5,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $5,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGLIDE FOUNDATION: $5,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $5,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $4,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $4,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $4,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $4,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE INC: $4,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $4,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIDEAWEE INC: $4,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE HUNGRY INC: $4,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Open Hand: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUTTVILLE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC: $3,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA RESCUE MISSION: $3,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA: $3,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEHOUSE INC: $3,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $2,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $2,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $2,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $2,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $2,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $2,400 over 3y, 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.

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.

Leonard & Beryl Buck …McNabb FoundationMarin Community Found…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…
Leonard & Beryl Buck FoundationMO13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Griffin Phoenix Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Griffin Phoenix Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 104 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home