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Griffith 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.

$208k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$173kHuman Services$146kArts & Culture$56kEnvironment$51kReligion$38kHealth$11kCrime & Legal$6kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $134k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$313k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOWMAN'S HILL WILDFLOWER PRESERVE$50,000
EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES$25,000
CHILDREN FIRST$20,000
BUCKS COUNTY HERALD FOUNDATION$20,000
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK$20,000
WESTMINSTER SCHOOL$15,000
Individual grant recipient$13,500
JAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM$10,000
ARTYARD$10,000
BARNARD COLLEGE$5,000
CORINTH 13 CENTER$5,000
ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES$4,000
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOLEBURY$3,750
NEHEMIAH CENTER$2,505
NEW LONDON COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER$1,500
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 (FY17–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILDREN FIRST: $20k → 22%NEHEMIAH CENTER: $3k → 16%NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER: $2k → 9%NEHEMIAH CENTER: $3k → 16%COMMUNITY YMCA: $1k → 6%NEHEMIAH CENTER: $2k → 16%NEHEMIAH CENTER: $2k → 16%NEHEMIAH CENTER: $2k → 16%NEHEMIAH CENTER: $2k → 16%NEHEMIAH CENTER: $2k → 16%NEHEMIAH CENTER: $2k → 16%NEHEMIAH CENTER: $2k → 16%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 22%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $11k → 22%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

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VT
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
VA
MD
DC
GA
TX
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$271k · 17 repeat orgs$237k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
16

Total granted

$271k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+107%

Still filing today

76%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $62k · revenue +25%
  • EC
    Episcopal Community Services of The Diocese of Pennsylvania
    2× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +24%
  • NC
    Nehemiah Center Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • The Friends of Foundation Academy Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +107%
  • WS
    WESTNINSTER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
  • WS
    WESTMINISTER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
3
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
10
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
11
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
12
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Princeton Day School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Artyard (Formerly Sprocket Arts). 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

28 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. 28 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EPISOCPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $70,000 · OtherEPISOCPAL COMMUNITY SERVICESST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $30,000 · OtherST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCHBRYN MAWR COLLEGE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: $20,000 · OtherBRYN MAWR COLLEGE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORKIndividual grant recipient: $13,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+21 more: $46,880 · Other+21 moreTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $61,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL…The Friends of Foundation Academy Inc: $50,000 · EducationThe Friends of Foundation Acad…BARNARD COLLEGE: $19,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE+5 more: $6,000 · EducationEpiscopal Community Services of The Diocese of Pennsylvania: $35,500 · Human ServicesEpiscopal Communi…Children First PA: $20,000 · Human ServicesChildren First PANehemiah Center Inc: $19,505 · Human ServicesNehemiah Center I…+2 more: $3,100 · Human ServicesBOWMAN'S HILL WILDFLOWER PRESERVE ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · EnvironmentBOWMAN'S HI…+1 more: $200 · EnvironmentBUCKS COUNTY HERALD FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBUCKS COUN…SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN V…JAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureJAMES A MI…ARTYARD (FORMERLY SPROCKET ARTS): $10,000 · PhilanthropyHMS SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY: $6,000 · HealthALS UNITED MID-ATLANTIC: $1,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 · Health
Other$180,380Education$136,500Human Services$78,105Environment$50,200Arts & Culture$45,000Philanthropy$10,000Health$7,500

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $61,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Friends of Foundation Academy Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetEpiscopal Community Services of The Diocese of Pennsylvania: $35,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChildren First PA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNehemiah Center Inc: $19,505 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $19,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617: $15,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHMS SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY: $6,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER MONMOUTH COUNTY INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS UNITED MID-ATLANTIC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORKIDS INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWP-THE YOUTH MOVEMENT: $600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 2y, 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.

United Way of Greater…The Philadelphia Foun…The McEwen Family Sch…The Neubauer Family F…The Gordon Charter Fo…The Robert Wood Johns…Independence Foundati…The William Penn Foun…Princeton Area Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…The Ayco Charitable F…Chubb Charitable Foun…
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New JerseyPA21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Philadelphia Foundation · The McEwen Family Scholarship Fund at Modern Group Ltd · The Neubauer Family Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Independence Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • New London Homeless Hospitality Center: 47% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Griffith Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Griffith Family Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home