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Griffin White Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$219k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$1.0MFood & Nutrition$187kHealth$166kHousing & Shelter$128kEmployment$63kReligion$43kArts & Culture$6k
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETHANY COMMUNITY SERVICE$50,250
SARAH'S PLACE$25,500
AGESPAN$21,000
REBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER HAVERHI$18,000
BREAKFAST EXCHANGE CLUB OF GREATER$10,000
WAYSTONE HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES$9,000
RUTH'S HOUSE$9,000
HAVERHILL YMCA$8,800
ALL SAINTS PARISH PANTRY$8,400
OPEN HEART MINISTRIES$7,000
ST GABRIEL PARISH$7,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF SACRED HEARTS$6,000
COMMUNITY ACTION INC$6,000
EMMAUS HOUSE$6,000
OPPORTUNITY WORKS$6,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AGESPAN: $21k → 10%AGESPAN: $21k → 10%AGESPAN: $20k → 10%WAYSTONE HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES: $9k → 10%WAYSTONE HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES: $8k → 10%WAYSTONE HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES: $8k → 10%NORTHERN ESSEX ELDER TRANSPORT: $6k → 10%NORTHERN ESSEX ELDER TRANSPORT: $5k → 10%NORTHERN ESSEX ELDER TRANSPORT: $3k → 10%RUTH'S HOUSE: $11k → 10%RUTH'S HOUSE: $11k → 10%RUTH'S HOUSE: $9k → 10%RUTH'S HOUSE: $9k → 10%RUTH'S HOUSE: $9k → 10%RUTH'S HOUSE: $9k → 10%RUTH'S HOUSE: $9k → 10%RUTH'S HOUSE: $8k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 29 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
5

Total granted

$1.6M
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+117%

Still filing today

38%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEmploymentCommunity ImprovementHealthReligionOther

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

  • RH
    RUTHS HOUSE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +175%
  • AGESPAN INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $62k · revenue +32%
  • OW
    Opportunity Works Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JAMES PARISH
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • CG
    COMMON GROUND MINISTRIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +117%
  • LM
    LIZ MURPHY OPEN HAND PANTRY
    one grant, 2018 · $4k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Lowell Area Housing Inc Dba Schneider Manor
2
Visiting Nurse & Community Health Inc

We are committed to providing the highest quality, compassionate home care to the patients entrusted to us. We are also steadfast in our pledge to be a responsive and innovative advocate for the communities we serve, focusing on health…

3
Boston Neighborhood Support Inc
Housing & Shelter
4
Fulfillment House Inc
Health
5
People Services Inc

The Organization networks within the community as an advocate for people with disabilities, focusing on community access, consumer rights, fostering independence and economic self-sufficiency.

6
Helping Hands Outreach Ministries Inc

Transitional and permanent supportive housing - provides shelter in the greater Manchester NH area. Services include housing, counseling (including substance abuse counseling), job search assistance, etc.

Housing & Shelter
7
New Ability Health Center Incorporated

NAHC is dedicated to transforming lives and restoring hope for individuals living in poverty. We deliver high-quality mental and physical healthcare, education, housing, and economic opportunities so that every person has a fair chance to…

Philanthropy
8
Out of the Storm Senior Services Inc

Out of the Storm Senior Housing's mission is to provide seniors with a family-like affordable, and stable living arrangement. Our mission has expanded to include survivors of elder abuse and domestic violence, as well as prevention of…

Housing & Shelter
9
The Cambridge Homes
10
Lifepath Inc

Lifepath, inc. is a private non-profit organization, designated aging services access point and an area agency on aging. its mission is to help elders live at home safely and independently for as long as possible by providing assistance…

Human Services
11
Coastline Elderly Services Inc

Enhance the lives of seniors, caregivers and those with similar needs by assisting them to remain independent through a range of quality services.

Human Services
12
Housing Options and Geriatric Association Resources Inc

To assist societys most disenfranchised; the elderly, seriously mentally ill adults, the homeless, people living with AIDS and the physically challenged by promoting, fostering and providing the highest quality of housing and services in a…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Career Resources Corp and the most unlike its peers is Northern Essex Elder Transport Inc. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BETHANY COMMUNITY SERVICE — $491,517 · OtherBETHANY COMMUNITY SERVICESARAHS PLACE INC — $123,941 · OtherSARAHS PLACE INCELDER SERVICES — $108,974 · OtherELDER SERVICESHAVERHILL YMCA — $108,061 · OtherHAVERHILL YMCAREBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER HAVERHILL INC — $52,500 · OtherREBUILDING TOGETHER — $50,565 · OtherEMMAUS HOUSE — $43,315 · Other+20 more — $295,497 · Other+20 moreRUTHS HOUSE INC — $74,948 · Human ServicesRUTHS HOUSE …AGESPAN INC — $62,175 · Human ServicesAGESPAN INCFIDELITY HOUSE INC — $25,150 · Human ServicesFIDELITY HOU…Northern Essex Elder Transport Inc — $13,275 · Human ServicesNorthern Ess…OPEN HEARTS MINISTRIES INC — $54,965 · Food & NutritionSOMEBODY CARES NEW ENGLAND INC — $15,622 · Food & NutritionOpportunity Works Inc — $53,390 · EmploymentCommunity Action Inc — $37,501 · Community ImprovementHOME HEALTH VNA INC — $15,036 · HealthCOMMON GROUND MINISTRIES INC — $5,000 · Religion
Other$1,274,370Human Services$175,548Food & Nutrition$70,587Employment$53,390Community Improvement$37,501Health$15,036Religion$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRUTHS HOUSE INC — $74,948 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetAGESPAN INC — $62,175 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN HEARTS MINISTRIES INC — $54,965 over 8y, 15% of budgetOpportunity Works Inc — $53,390 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER HAVERHILL INC — $52,500 over 4y, 45% of budgetCommunity Action Inc — $37,501 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY HOUSE INC — $25,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $24,150 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSOMEBODY CARES NEW ENGLAND INC — $15,622 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetHOME HEALTH VNA INC — $15,036 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Essex Elder Transport Inc — $13,275 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCareer Resources Corp — $9,536 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON GROUND MINISTRIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budget
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 RUTHS HOUSE INC
  • Who funds AGESPAN INC
  • Who funds OPEN HEARTS MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds Opportunity Works Inc
  • Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER HAVERHILL INC
  • Who funds Community Action Inc
  • Who funds FIDELITY HOUSE INC
  • Who funds YWCA NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC
  • Who funds SOMEBODY CARES NEW ENGLAND INC
  • Who funds HOME HEALTH VNA INC
  • Who funds Northern Essex Elder Transport Inc
  • Who funds Career Resources Corp
  • Who funds COMMON GROUND MINISTRIES INC

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.

George C Wadleigh Foundation IncMA34.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George C Wadleigh Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Stevens-Bennett Foundation Inc · Rogers Family Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 White 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 52%
  • Fidelity House Inc91% of income from government
  • Opportunity Works Inc77% of income from government
  • Agespan Inc57% of income from government
  • Community Action Inc52% of income from government
  • Northern Essex Elder Transport Inc16% of income from government
  • Ywca Northeastern Massachusetts Inc5% of income from government
  • Somebody Cares New England Inc4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Griffin White Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Griffin White Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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