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Gryphon Assistance Fund

The purpose of GRYPHON ASSISTANCE FUND (the 'fund') is to provide support for employees of gryphon advisors ii, llc ('gryphon advisors') or portfolio companies of gryphon advisors, their dependents and spouses, and others affected by disasters or emergency hardships.

$610k
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$190k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Human Services$425kInternational$340kHealth$250kPublic Safety & Disaster$225kEmployment$215kPhilanthropy$150kAnimals$100k
02FY2022 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $560,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $610,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $50,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$190,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$21k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS$190,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$190,000
POTTER ELECTRIC SIGNAL CO LLC$180,000
02The need
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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 (FY22–22, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $190k → 14%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

MN
IL
OH
CA
MO
MD
SC
DC
GA
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 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
Ge Employee Relief Fund

The ge employee relief fund will be primarily engaged in providing short-term emergency assistance for ge employees impacted by disasters.

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2
Smart Td Disaster Relief Fund

Disaster relief

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Sei Disaster Relief Fund
Public Safety & Disaster
4
Assurant Cares Employee Support Fund
Human Services
5
Brewnited
Philanthropy
6
One to One Fund

Assistance of employees of one gas, inc. and their immediate family members in need and providing financial help for such employees and/ or their dependent children in crisis situations (such as natural disasters or medical emergencies).

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Emergency Assistance Fund for Horizon Air Employees

To provide financial support to qualifying horizon air employees who need assistance due to catastrophic or medical reasons.

Membership Benefit
8
Cardinal Health Associates Foundation

To provide aid and assistance to employees of cardinal health, inc. and its subsidiaries and members of their immediate household in case of natural or civil disaster emergency hardship, severe economic hardship in the family due to…

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9
Admiral Beverage Employee Relief Fund

Admiral Beverage Employee Relief Fund has been established for the benefit of employees and families of the Admiral Beverage family of companies

Human Services
10
United We Care Fund

Fund will seek to support united supermarkets employees who need emergency financial assistance due to unexpected crisis, hardship, or disaster.

Philanthropy
11
First Horizon Employee Relief Fund Inc

Emergency grant - fhb employee assistance

Human Services
12
Mcfa Assistance Foundation

The Foundation is intended to provide basic necessities to eligible employees who have encountered financial harship for reasons beyond their control and/or provide temporary relief to meet the necessities of life of eligible employees who…

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waters Edge Dermatology Assistance Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dessert Holdings Covid-19 Employee Assistance Fund. 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

8 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. 8 of the 14 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POTTER ELECTRIC SIGNAL CO LLC: $180,000 · OtherPOTTER ELECTRIC SIGNAL CO LLCLEARN BEHAVIORAL ASSISTANCE FUND INC: $150,000 · OtherLEARN BEHAVIORAL ASSISTANCE FUND INCCORA PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSISTANCE FUND: $150,000 · OtherCORA PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSISTANCE FUNDHVP ASSISTANCE FUND: $100,000 · OtherHVP ASSISTANCE FUNDMILANI COSMETIC ASSISTANCE FUND: $100,000 · OtherMILANI COSMETIC ASSISTANCE FUNDDESSERT HOLDINGS COVID-19 EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE FUND: $35,000 · OtherMECHANIX WEAR ASSISTANCE FUND: $25,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $190,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL …SMILES FOR EVERYONE FOUNDATION: $150,000 · InternationalSMILES FOR EVERYONE FO…JENSEN HUGHES ASSISTANCE FUND INC: $150,000 · Public Safety & DisasterJENSEN HUGHES ASSI…WATERS EDGE DERMATOLOGY ASSISTANCE FUND INC: $100,000 · Public Safety & DisasterWATERS EDGE DERMAT…OBHG CARE FUND: $35,000 · Public Safety & DisasterOBHG CARE FUNDAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $190,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nat…NEMA FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyNEMA FOUN…
Other$740,000International$340,000Public Safety & Disaster$285,000Human Services$190,000Philanthropy$150,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $190,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $190,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEMA FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJENSEN HUGHES ASSISTANCE FUND INC: $150,000 over 1y, 91% of budgetSMILES FOR EVERYONE FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetWATERS EDGE DERMATOLOGY ASSISTANCE FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 100% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gryphon Assistance Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gryphon Assistance Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    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.
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    How do I get to Gryphon Assistance Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Gryphon Assistance Fund 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 14 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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