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Mary Hobbs Griffith 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.

$325k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 23
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$4.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Mary Hobbs Griffith Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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HealthArts & CultureEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving20$325k15%
FY202420$276k25%
FY202323$296k35%
FY202218$230k22%
FY202116$233k13%
FY202017$218k29%
FY201918$240k11%
FY201822$305k36%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$485kFood & Nutrition$434kEnvironment$304kEducation$239kPublic Safety & Disaster$238kHealth$180kReligion$172kAnimals$108kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IN
CA
NM
TN
SC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Beeville Art Association Inc$140,000939%
Skidmore Volunteer Fire Department$117,5009n/a
Papalote Volunteer Fire Department$112,500937%
St Joseph Catholic Church$95,0006n/a
Taft Public Library Inc$82,5007n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$70,00060%
Sound Off$68,00032%
Skidmore Historical Society Inc$62,0009n/a
Future Farmers of America Barnesville Mn Alumni As$60,000333%
Friends of the ARK Inc$60,00047%
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All grantees of Mary Hobbs Griffith Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Beeville Art Association Inc$140,000939%
Skidmore Volunteer Fire Department$117,5009n/a
Papalote Volunteer Fire Department$112,500937%
St Joseph Catholic Church$95,0006n/a
Taft Public Library Inc$82,5007n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$70,00060%
Sound Off$68,00032%
Skidmore Historical Society Inc$62,0009n/a
Future Farmers of America Barnesville Mn Alumni As$60,000333%
Friends of the ARK Inc$60,00047%
Santa Fe Botanical Garden$60,00023%
Gillespie County Historical Society Inc$50,00051%
San Antonio Academy of Texas$50,00020%
Port Aransas Preservation and Historical Association$40,000311%
Port Aransas Education Foundation$40,00026%
San Antonio Zoological Society$40,00040%
Worldwomenwork$36,50048%
IBU Foundation$33,000219%
San Antonio Botanical Garden Society Inc$30,00030%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$30,00020%
James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts$25,00011%
Shades of Green Legacy Foundation Shades of Green Legacy Foundation$25,00019%
Brackenridge Park Conservancy$25,0003n/a
Children's Heart Foundation$15,00030%
Catholic Music Initiative Inc$15,0001n/a
Friends of the Port Aransas William R Bill Ellis Memorial Library$15,0002n/a
Sinton Tx Historical Museum$12,5001n/a
Taft Blackland Museum Inc$12,5003n/a
Youth Development Foundation of Port Aransas$10,0001n/a
The Healer Within Foundation$10,000111%
Adore Ministries Inc$10,00020%
Sinton Independent School District$8,0002n/a
Museum of New Mexico Foundation$5,00010%
Driscoll Children's Hospital$5,00010%
Trinity-By-The-Sea Episcopal Church$5,0001n/a
Spay Neuter Inject Protect Sanantonio$3,0001n/a
Refugio Volunteer Fire Department$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($842k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Mary Hobbs Griffith Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBeeville Art Association Inc: $140,000 over 9y, 39% of budgetPapalote Volunteer Fire Department: $112,500 over 9y, 37% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSound Off: $68,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetFuture Farmers of America Barnesville Mn Alumni As: $60,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetFriends of the ARK Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetSanta Fe Botanical Garden: $60,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetGillespie County Historical Society Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSan Antonio Academy of Texas: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPort Aransas Preservation and Historical Association: $40,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetPort Aransas Education Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetSan Antonio Zoological Society: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWorldwomenwork: $36,500 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetIBU Foundation: $33,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetSan Antonio Botanical Garden Society Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJames Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetShades of Green Legacy Foundation Shades of Green Legacy Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetChildren's Heart Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Healer Within Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAdore Ministries Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMuseum of New Mexico Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDriscoll Children's Hospital: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRefugio Volunteer Fire Department: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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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 24.

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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.

Coastal Bend Community FoundationTX15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Bend Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · San Antonio Area Foundation · Texas Sandfest · Mays Family Foundation · Ed Rachal Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Mary Hobbs Griffith Foundation

How much does Mary Hobbs Griffith Foundation give?
Mary Hobbs Griffith Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $325,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Mary Hobbs Griffith Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Food & Nutrition (19%), Environment (13%).
Who are Mary Hobbs Griffith Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Beeville Art Association Inc ($140k), Skidmore Volunteer Fire Department ($118k), Papalote Volunteer Fire Department ($113k).
Does Mary Hobbs Griffith Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mary Hobbs Griffith 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 Mary Hobbs Griffith Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Bend Community Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, San Antonio Area Foundation.
Where is Mary Hobbs Griffith Foundation based?
Mary Hobbs Griffith Foundation is based in TX.

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 54 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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