Texas · Private foundation
Helen Griffin Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $654k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $65,435
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $196,306
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 7
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Helen Griffin Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $654k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $640k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $673k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $555k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $430k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $438k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $432k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lee Griffin Scholarship Fund | $392,641 | 7 | 74% |
| Grandview Cemetery Association Inc | $190,596 | 7 | 24% |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
About Helen Griffin Charitable Trust
- How much does Helen Griffin Charitable Trust give?
- Helen Griffin Charitable Trust reported 7 grants totaling $654,353 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Helen Griffin Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Health (30%), Membership Benefit (5%).
- Who are Helen Griffin Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Lee Griffin Scholarship Fund ($393k), Grandview Cemetery Association Inc ($191k).
- Does Helen Griffin Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helen Griffin Charitable Trust 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.
- Where is Helen Griffin Charitable Trust based?
- Helen Griffin Charitable Trust is based in TX.
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