Alabama · Private foundation
Joe Lee Griffin Foundation
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.
- $239k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Joe Lee Griffin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $239k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $226k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $250k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $243k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $203k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $208k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $187k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $215k | 46% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Church of the Highlands Inc | $145,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Gladney Fund | $60,500 | 8 | 16% |
| Samford University | $40,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Forgotten Children Ministries | $40,000 | 8 | 1% |
| United Methodist Children's Home | $38,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Unless U Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Children's Harbor Inc | $29,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $28,850 | 9 | 0% |
| Nashville Coaching Coalition | $27,500 | 7 | 38% |
| Smile-A-Mile | $25,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Joe Lee Griffin Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Dunn-French Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Walker Area Community Foundation Inc · The Long Lewis Foundation · The Hackney Foundation
How this is measured
About Joe Lee Griffin Foundation
- How much does Joe Lee Griffin Foundation give?
- Joe Lee Griffin Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $238,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Joe Lee Griffin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (46%), Health (20%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Joe Lee Griffin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Church of the Highlands Inc ($145k), The Gladney Fund ($61k), Samford University ($41k).
- Does Joe Lee Griffin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joe Lee Griffin 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 Joe Lee Griffin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Alabama Power Foundation Inc, Hill Crest Foundation Inc.
- Where is Joe Lee Griffin Foundation based?
- Joe Lee Griffin Foundation is based in AL.
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