New York · Private foundation
John & Amy Griffin Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $8.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2024
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,825,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 49
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $23M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations John & Amy Griffin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $241k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 44 | $8.1M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $3.1M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $2.5M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $1.6M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $2.5M | 21% |
| FY2019 | 49 | $2.1M | 59% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $6.8M | 30% |
| FY2017 | 36 | $4.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Imentor Inc | $9,657,813 | 7 | 18% |
| Robin Hood Foundation | $5,044,733 | 8 | 1% |
| The Spence School | $2,251,053 | 7 | 3% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $2,155,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Riverdale Country School Inc | $915,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Signature Theatre Company Inc | $910,000 | 5 | 4% |
| American Museum of Natural History | $700,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Boys' Club of New York | $585,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $525,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Virginia Student Aid Foundation Inc | $435,000 | 2 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John & Amy Griffin Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Viking Global Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ford Foundation · Carson Family Charitable Trust · The Chase and Stephanie Coleman Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About John & Amy Griffin Foundation
- How much does John & Amy Griffin Foundation give?
- John & Amy Griffin Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $8,170,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 49 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does John & Amy Griffin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (33%), Education (20%), Arts & Culture (17%).
- Who are John & Amy Griffin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Imentor Inc ($9.7M), Robin Hood Foundation ($5.0M), The Spence School ($2.3M).
- Does John & Amy Griffin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John & Amy 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 John & Amy Griffin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is John & Amy Griffin Foundation based?
- John & Amy Griffin Foundation is based in NY.
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