How much does Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn give?

Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn reported 18 grants totaling $305,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (63%), Education (30%), Environment (6%).

Who are Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Uc Santa Barbara Foundation ($202k), Opera Santa Barbara ($100k), Santa Barbara Historical Museum ($100k).

Does Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ann Jackson Family Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation.

Where is Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn based?

Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn is based in MN.

Foundation Dossiers

Minnesota · Private foundation

Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$305k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 18
Grants FY2025: 17
Organizations funded FY2024: 24%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $40,000
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 17; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $4.4M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	18	$305k	17%
FY2024	17	$263k	24%
FY2023	15	$250k	40%
FY2022	13	$273k	0%
FY2021	13	$244k	8%
FY2020	13	$241k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$994kEducation$473kEnvironment$91kCommunity Improvement$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation	$201,850	3	0%
Opera Santa Barbara	$100,250	6	1%
Santa Barbara Historical Museum	$100,250	6	2%
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum	$100,250	6	1%
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra Association	$100,250	6	0%
Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara Inc	$90,000	6	2%
Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts Inc	$90,000	6	0%
University of California Santa Barbara	$85,000	2	n/a
Lobero Theatre Foundation	$75,000	6	1%
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden	$71,000	6	0%

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All grantees of Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation	$201,850	3	0%
Opera Santa Barbara	$100,250	6	1%
Santa Barbara Historical Museum	$100,250	6	2%
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum	$100,250	6	1%
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra Association	$100,250	6	0%
Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara Inc	$90,000	6	2%
Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts Inc	$90,000	6	0%
University of California Santa Barbara	$85,000	2	n/a
Lobero Theatre Foundation	$75,000	6	1%
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden	$71,000	6	0%
Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara	$55,000	3	0%
Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation	$50,000	3	1%
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History	$50,000	3	0%
Ganna Walska Lotusland	$20,000	2	0%
Performing Arts Center	$17,500	2	n/a
Casa del Herrero	$15,000	1	1%
Santa Cruz Island Foundation	$15,000	1	2%
The Santa Barbara Choral Society	$5,000	1	2%
State Street Ballet	$5,000	1	n/a
Santa Barbara Chamber Players	$5,000	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($324k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn supplied at peak.

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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 16.

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.

Ann Jackson Family FoundationCA30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Schlinger Chrisman Foundation Northern Trust Company Trustee · Mosher Foundation · Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable · Oshay Family Foundation · Www Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Godric Foundation · The Leslie S and Philip L Bernstein Family Fund · Elizabeth and John Moller 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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About Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn

How much does Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn give?: Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn reported 18 grants totaling $305,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (63%), Education (30%), Environment (6%).
Who are Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Uc Santa Barbara Foundation ($202k), Opera Santa Barbara ($100k), Santa Barbara Historical Museum ($100k).
Does Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ann Jackson Family Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation.
Where is Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn based?: Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn is based in MN.