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Griffith Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Griffith Family Foundation Inc

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.

$916k
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.8MArts & Culture$1.1MCommunity Improvement$914kPhilanthropy$701kReligion$686kYouth Development$554kHuman Services$292kHealth$228kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $615k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $235k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITIES & SCHOOLS OF CTR GA$80,000
MOTIVATING YOUTH FOUNDATION INC$55,000
RECOVERY UNDER THE HEALER INC$50,000
HOPE FOR THE HEART OF GEORGIA INC$50,000
FORWARD MACON$45,000
VICTORY ACADEMY & OUTREACH$44,700
PROVERBS 4 MINISTRIES INC$40,000
LIGHTHOUSE RECOVERY MINISTIRES INC$40,000
STREETLINE PERCUSSIONINC$37,500
THE LIAISON GROUP INC$37,000
AWAKENING FIRES MINISTRY INC$35,000
KNGDM FOUR SEVEN EIGHT INC$30,000
TUBMAN MUSEUM$27,000
MACON ARTS ALLIANCE$26,326
THE MENTORS PROJECT OF BIBB CO$25,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $272k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE BIG HOUSE FOUNDATION: $23k → 15%GEORGIA SHERIFF'S YOUTH HOMES: $100 → 8%HOPE FOR THE HEART OF GEORGIA INC: $50k → 12%GEORGIA SHERIFF'S YOUTH HOMES: $50 → 8%HORACE HOLMES MINISTRY INC: $8k → 23%HORACE HOLMES MINISTRY INC: $5k → 23%HOPE FOR THE HEART OF GEORGIA INC: $25k → 12%COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT CENTER INC: $17k → 23%COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT CENTER INC: $10k → 23%MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GA: $13k → 12%MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GA: $10k → 12%MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GA: $3k → 12%MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GA: $3k → 12%MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GA: $2k → 12%REBUILDING MACON INC: $10k → 23%THE ARC MACON INC: $25k → 23%UNITY-N-COMMUNITY INC: $5k → 23%REBUILDING MACON INC: $4k → 23%REBUILDING MACON INC: $500 → 23%CENTENARY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $50k → 23%RESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GA: $10k → 23%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

IL
MA
PA
CA
CO
KY
MD
NC
DC
MS
AL
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.4M · 93 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

93 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

93
99

Total granted

$5.4M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+10%

Still filing today

39%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $237k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TC
    THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +34%
  • OR
    OTIS REDDING FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $530k · revenue +848% · 39% of their budget
  • MA
    MACON ARTS ALLIANCE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • OH
    OPERATION HOPE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $101k · revenue +72%
  • DA
    DREAM ACADEMY
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -20%
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
Macon Ga Chapter of the Links Inc

Volunteer community service

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2
Macon Recovers Inc

The mission is to mobilize resources within and outside the recovery community to increase the prevalence and quality of long-term recovery from alcohol and other drug dependency in georgia by increasing recovery capital, with a priority…

Human Services
3
Macon Aim Inc

Macon aim is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering families and breaking barriers through its comprehensive self-sufficiency program.

Human Services
4
Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce

To promote business, economic development, and community development within the greater macon area.

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5
Methodist Home of the South Georgia Conference Inc

The methodist home of the south georgia conference, inc. is a multi-site, multipurpose organization that provides residential placement for 165 youth in fiscal year 2025. the main campus is located in macon, georgia with youth living in…

Human Services
6
Macon Economic Development Commission Inc

To promote economic development.

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7
Literacy Council of Macon County

Education, family support

Unclassified
8
Macon County Ptsd Foundation
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9
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc

Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.

Education
10
The Fuller Center for Housing of Macon Georgia Inc

Serving the middle Georgia area with low-income housing solutions through the Fuller Center for Housings Save a House/Make a Home and Greater Blessings programs.

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11
Middle Georgia Center for Academic Excellence Inc

Middle Georgia Center for Academic Excellence, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization that seeks to bring together persons who have an active interest in broadening accessibility to and success in postsecondary education. The Center…

Education
12
Macon Pride Inc

The purpose of macon pride is to advance unity, visibility and self-esteem among lgbtqia+ persons and our allies, and to promote a positive image in the middle georgia area through community activities and service. macon pride will educate…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 100 Black Men Macon-Middle Ga Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bighouse 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

75 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. 75 of the 211 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/75
Grantees still filing
42/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITIES & SCHOOLS OF CTR GA: $170,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $155,000 · OtherMIDDLE GEORGIA ACCESS TO JUSTICE: $145,000 · Other+155 more: $3,120,341 · Other+155 moreTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $1,052,500 · EducationTHE CORPORATION OF M…FORWARD MACON INC: $117,500 · EducationFORWARD MACON INCREAL I M P A C T CENTER INC: $61,500 · Education+8 more: $90,524 · Education+8 moreOTIS REDDING FOUNDATION INC: $530,000 · Arts & CultureOTIS REDDIN…MACON ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $204,826 · Arts & CultureMACON ARTS …+7 more: $41,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC: $560,265 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY…UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…+1 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyNEWTOWN MACON INC: $515,000 · Community ImprovementNEWTOWN M…The Urban CEO: $65,190 · Community ImprovementThe Urban…567 CENTER FOR RENEWAL: $26,500 · Community Improvement+2 more: $25,000 · Community ImprovementHOPE FOR THE HEART OF GEORGIA INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesCENTENARY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC: $29,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT CENTER INC: $27,200 · Human ServicesTHE ARC MACON INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesBIGHOUSE INC: $22,500 · Human ServicesREBUILDING MACON INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesHORACE HOLMES MINISTRIES INC: $13,150 · Human ServicesRESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesMOTIVATING YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $134,000 · Recreation & SportsMACON HOPE INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $4,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,590,641Education$1,322,024Arts & Culture$775,826Philanthropy$636,765Community Improvement$631,690Human Services$271,350Recreation & Sports$148,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $1,052,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC: $560,265 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetOTIS REDDING FOUNDATION INC: $530,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetNEWTOWN MACON INC: $515,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetMACON ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $204,826 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetMOTIVATING YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $134,000 over 6y, 47% of budgetFORWARD MACON INC: $117,500 over 3y, 29% of budgetOPERATION HOPE INC: $100,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRECOVERY UNDER THE HEALER: $100,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetONE WORLD LINK: $99,999 over 2y, 30% of budgetHOPE FOR THE HEART OF GEORGIA INC: $75,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Urban CEO: $65,190 over 4y, 19% of budgetREAL I M P A C T CENTER INC: $61,500 over 5y, 29% of budgetCENTENARY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetCAMPUS CLUBS INC: $44,200 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetVision Atlanta Inc: $43,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetLighthouse Recovery Ministries Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetMIDDLE GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLoaves And Fishes Ministry: $30,500 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetFamily Advancement Ministries Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC: $29,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT CENTER INC: $27,200 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCommunities In Schools Of Central Georgia Inc: $26,500 over 2y, 17% of budget567 CENTER FOR RENEWAL: $26,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetMACON AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $26,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ARC MACON INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFIRST CHOICE PRIMARY CARE INC: $24,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRATFORD ACADEMY INC: $15,374 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEXT LEVEL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREBUILDING MACON INC: $14,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetMACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC INC: $13,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHORACE HOLMES MINISTRIES INC: $13,150 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetBRAGG JAM INC: $11,500 over 4y, 40% of budget100 BLACK MEN MACON-MIDDLE GA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetMACON HOPE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetRESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOODFIELD ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BIG HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetSPREAD THE VOTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMACON-BIBB CITIZEN ADVOCACY INC: $8,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE CHRIST CENTERED RECOV: $7,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetMACON FILM FESTIVAL INC: $7,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetIn-Fill Housing Inc: $5,596 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTUDENT NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKOLBE CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

  • Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds OTIS REDDING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEWTOWN MACON INC ↗
  • Who funds MACON ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds MOTIVATING YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FORWARD MACON INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds RECOVERY UNDER THE HEALER ↗
  • Who funds ONE WORLD LINK ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR THE HEART OF GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds The Urban CEO ↗
  • Who funds REAL I M P A C T CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTENARY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMPUS CLUBS INC ↗
  • Who funds Vision Atlanta Inc ↗
  • Who funds Lighthouse Recovery Ministries Inc ↗

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 Peyton Anderson F…Georgia Power Foundat…Ej Grassmann TrustJohn S and James L Kn…Martin Foundation IncThe Ra Bowen TrustNavicent Health Found…Robins Financial Cred…WL Amos Sr Foundation…James Hyde Porter Tes…Charles H Jones Famil…Elam Alexander Trust
The Peyton Anderson FoundationGA76.3× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Peyton Anderson Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Ej Grassmann Trust · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Martin Foundation Inc · The Ra Bowen Trust · Navicent Health Foundation Inc · Robins Financial Credit Union · WL Amos Sr Foundation Inc co William L Amos III · James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust · Charles H Jones Family Foundation · Elam Alexander Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 211 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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