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Griffiths Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$130k
Granted FY2022
14
Grants FY2022
14
Organizations funded FY2022
7%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 14
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 7% of the organizations Griffiths Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
EducationHealthPublic BenefitOther
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
FY202214$130k7%
FY202113$115k8%
FY202012$110k0%
FY201913$110k0%
FY201813$110k15%
FY201713$115kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$180kHealth$135kFood & Nutrition$120kHuman Services$120kArts & Culture$60kYouth Development$30kHousing & Shelter$25kReligion$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Park Nicollet Foundation$60,00060%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$60,00060%
Sharing and Caring Hands Inc$60,00060%
Food for the Poor Inc$60,00060%
Feed My Starving Children Inc$60,00060%
Dunwoody College of Technology$45,00020%
Risen Christ School$30,0006n/a
Dinomights$30,00061%
Elevate Life$25,00052%
Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans$25,00050%
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All grantees of Griffiths Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Park Nicollet Foundation$60,00060%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$60,00060%
Sharing and Caring Hands Inc$60,00060%
Food for the Poor Inc$60,00060%
Feed My Starving Children Inc$60,00060%
Dunwoody College of Technology$45,00020%
Risen Christ School$30,0006n/a
Dinomights$30,00061%
Elevate Life$25,00052%
Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans$25,00050%
Judicial Watch Inc$10,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($225k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Griffiths Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPark Nicollet Foundation: $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSharing and Caring Hands Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFood for the Poor Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDunwoody College of Technology: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDinomights: $30,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetElevate Life: $25,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetMinnesota Assistance Council for Veterans: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 10.

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.

Harold F Griffiths FoundationMN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Harold F Griffiths Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Griffiths Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Griffiths 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.

About Griffiths Foundation

How much does Griffiths Foundation give?
Griffiths Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $130,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Griffiths Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (25%), Health (19%), Food & Nutrition (17%).
Who are Griffiths Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Park Nicollet Foundation ($60k), Wounded Warrior Project Inc ($60k), Sharing and Caring Hands Inc ($60k).
Does Griffiths Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Griffiths Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Griffiths Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Harold F Griffiths Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Griffiths Foundation based?
Griffiths Foundation is based in MN.

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 18 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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