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Griffith Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$210k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
46
Grants FY2024
46
Organizations funded FY2023
9%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$22,500
Organizations funded a year
46 to 52
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$3.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Griffith Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving45$209k13%
FY202346$200k9%
FY202250$186k10%
FY202146$149k9%
FY202047$137k13%
FY201952$130k27%
FY201850$138kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$360kHealth$145kHuman Services$141kEducation$90kEnvironment$86kRecreation & Sports$50kPhilanthropy$39kAnimals$33kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People$65,00072%
Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc$61,00070%
Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc$57,00071%
Anderson Ranch Arts Center$54,00060%
Indianapolis First Baptist Church$50,0003n/a
Newfields Inc$47,50070%
Indianapolis Film Project Inc$40,00061%
Park Tudor Foundation Inc$32,00070%
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc$31,00070%
Keep Indianapolis Beautiful Inc$30,50070%
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All grantees of Griffith Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People$65,00072%
Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc$61,00070%
Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc$57,00071%
Anderson Ranch Arts Center$54,00060%
Indianapolis First Baptist Church$50,0003n/a
Newfields Inc$47,50070%
Indianapolis Film Project Inc$40,00061%
Park Tudor Foundation Inc$32,00070%
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc$31,00070%
Keep Indianapolis Beautiful Inc$30,50070%
Big Car Media Inc$29,00070%
Village of Merici Inc$27,50071%
Jazz at Aspen-Snowmass$26,35060%
Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc$23,00070%
Lake Maxinkuckee Environmental Fund Inc$22,50072%
Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc$22,00060%
The Indiana Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$21,00070%
Washington Township Schools Foundation Inc$18,00071%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis$17,00070%
Iyg Inc$16,50060%
American Cabaret Theatre Inc$15,00060%
Fairbanks Hospital Inc$13,50030%
Pattern Inc$12,50071%
Indiana Humanities Council Inc$11,50070%
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Inc$10,50070%
Damar Services Inc$10,00020%
Marian University$10,00020%
United States Fund for Unicef$10,00010%
Second Presbyterian Church$10,0001n/a
Progress House$10,00014%
Lake Maxinkuckee Association Inc$8,00071%
Indianapolis Private Industry Council$8,00010%
Indiana State Museum Foundation Inc$7,00070%
Overdose Lifeline Inc$7,00070%
Wheeler Mission Ministries Inc$7,00070%
Indianapolis - Marion County Public Library Foundation Inc$7,00070%
Humane Society of Indianapolis$7,00070%
Central Indiana Land Trust Incorporated$7,00070%
St Vincent Hospital Foundation Inc$7,00070%
Hoosier Environmental Council Inc$6,00060%
Second Helpings Inc$5,00010%
Jameson Inc$5,0001n/a
Greater Chicago Food Depository$5,00030%
The Garden Conservancy Inc$5,00020%
Indianapolis Cultural Trail Inc$5,00010%
The Josselyn Center Nfp$3,00030%
Young Audiences of Indiana Inc$3,00030%
Indiana University Foundation$3,00020%
The Hope Academy Inc$2,5001n/a
Paws & Think Inc$2,50011%
Heartland Film Inc$2,50010%
The Athenaeum Foundation Inc$2,5001n/a
Center for Leadership Development Inc$2,50010%
The Julian Center Inc$2,50010%
Building Tomorrow Inc$2,00020%
Outrun the Sun Inc$2,00011%
Harrison Center for the Arts Inc$2,00020%
Indianapolis Urban League Inc$2,00020%
Radical Generosity Chicago$2,0001n/a
Random Acts of Flowers$2,00020%
Indianapolis Jazz Foundation Inc$1,50020%
Landmark Columbus Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Brightlane Learning Corp$1,00010%
Christamore House Inc$1,00010%
The 24 Group Inc$1,00013%
Indiana Historical Society$1,00010%
Indianapolis Public Schools Education Foundation Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($206k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Griffith Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBrooke's Place for Grieving Young People: $65,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetEskenazi Health Foundation Inc: $61,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCrown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc: $57,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetAnderson Ranch Arts Center: $54,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNewfields Inc: $47,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIndianapolis Film Project Inc: $40,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPark Tudor Foundation Inc: $32,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc: $31,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKeep Indianapolis Beautiful Inc: $30,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBig Car Media Inc: $29,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetVillage of Merici Inc: $27,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetJazz at Aspen-Snowmass: $26,350 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc: $23,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLake Maxinkuckee Environmental Fund Inc: $22,500 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetGleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc: $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Indiana Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $21,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWashington Township Schools Foundation Inc: $18,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis: $17,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIyg Inc: $16,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Cabaret Theatre Inc: $15,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFairbanks Hospital Inc: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPattern Inc: $12,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetIndiana Humanities Council Inc: $11,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Inc: $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDamar Services Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarian University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProgress House: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetLake Maxinkuckee Association Inc: $8,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetIndianapolis Private Industry Council: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana State Museum Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOverdose Lifeline Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWheeler Mission Ministries Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIndianapolis - Marion County Public Library Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Indianapolis: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Indiana Land Trust Incorporated: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSt Vincent Hospital Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHoosier Environmental Council Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Helpings Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Garden Conservancy Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIndianapolis Cultural Trail Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Josselyn Center Nfp: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Audiences of Indiana Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPaws & Think Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHeartland Film Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Leadership Development Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 61.

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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.

The Indianapolis Foundation IncIN74.3× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Dorsey 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.

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About Griffith Family Foundation Inc

How much does Griffith Family Foundation Inc give?
Griffith Family Foundation Inc reported 46 grants totaling $210,350 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 52 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Griffith Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Health (12%), Human Services (12%).
Who are Griffith Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People ($65k), Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc ($61k), Crown Hill Heritage Foundation Inc ($57k).
Does Griffith Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Griffith Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Griffith Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc, Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation.
Where is Griffith Family Foundation Inc based?
Griffith Family Foundation Inc is based in IN.

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 92 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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