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Meta a & William S Griffith Foundation at a glance

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Meta a & William S 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.

$110k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$337kYouth Development$260kArts & Culture$230kRecreation & Sports$111kHealth$54kHousing & Shelter$43kFood & Nutrition$17kEmployment$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUNG AUDIENCES ARTS FOR LEARNING$45,000
THE DIAMOND CLUB - MONTGOMERY BASEBALL$20,000
THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY$20,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MERCER COUNTY$10,000
HOMEFRONT$3,000
CENTER FOR MODERN AGING PRINCETON$3,000
OLD BARRACKS MUSEUM$2,500
DRESS FOR SUCCESS$2,500
TRENTON AREA SOUP KITCHEN$2,500
YOUNITY$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $368k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%RESCUE MISSION OF TRENTON: $4k → 11%RESCUE MISSION OF TRENTON: $3k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY: $50k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY: $50k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY: $50k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY: $45k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY: $40k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY: $25k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY: $25k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY: $25k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY: $20k → 11%PRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 11%PRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER: $4k → 11%ARM IN ARM: $3k → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $3k → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $3k → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $3k → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $3k → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $3k → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $3k → 11%MILLHILL CHILD & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 11%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.
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 17 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
16

Total granted

$1.1M
$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+26%

Still filing today

65%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthCrime & LegalFood & NutritionEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • THE CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $330k · revenue +57%
  • BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MERCER COUNTY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $77k · revenue +12%
  • MT
    MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP BASEBALL LEAGUE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • MD
    MHS DIAMOND CLUB
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • MH
    MONTGOMERY HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL DIAMOND CLUB
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • MB
    MONTGOMERY BASEBALL DIAMOND CLUB
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Contact of Mercer County Nj Inc

CONTACT of Mercer County NJ, Inc. provides compassionate, confidential telephone crisis intervention for those who are in emotional turmoil, thinking about suicide, experiencing loneliness, or facing the challenges of mental illness.…

Health
2
Mercer Street Friends Center

As a multi-faceted human services agency, mercer street friends (msf) dedicated to "nourishing minds and bodies; empowering families and communities," works to reduce hunger and food insecurity, close education gaps, improve the physical…

Human Services
3
Millville Day Care Center Inc

Child care program for children of various financial backgrounds.

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4
United Way of Mercer County

United Way of Mercer County champions the needs of children and families in our region.

Philanthropy
5
Nami Mercer Nj Inc

NAMI Mercer NJ, Inc. is a local affiliate in NJ's Capital region of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization. Nami Mercer NJ, Inc. listens, leads, educates, and advocates,…

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6
LifeTies Inc

Nurturing wellness and self-sufficiency in vulnerable youth, your adults and their families

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7
My Fathers House Inc

My Fathers House, Inc. provides assessment, evaluation, intensive outpatient treatment, outpatient treatment, individual counseling, family counseling and aftercare group services. MFHs operation are located in Gloucester City, New Jersey.

Health
8
Carelink Community Support Services Nj

Carelink community support services of new jersey's mission is to assist adult citizens of nj living with psychiatric disability in acquiring the tools necessary to live health and fulfilling lives.

Health
9
Middlesex County Regional Chamber of Commerce

The middlesex county regional chamber of commerce has served as the areas premier source of business networking, education and government advocacy for more than 100 years. we partner with member organizations who have over 50,000 employees…

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10
Meals on Wheels in Hunterdon Inc

To assist the homebound elderly/disabled of Hunterdon, New Jersey to maintain their independence by enhancing their nutritional health, thereby avoiding unwanted institutionalization.

Human Services
11
Jewish Family Service of Somerset Hunterdon & Warren Counties Inc

JFS is a non-profit, non-sectarian social service agency whose mission is to preserve and strengthen the quality of individual, family and community life based on Jewish values.

Human Services
12
Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services

Bridgeway Behavioral Services facilitates, promotes, and fosters recovery from mental illness and co-occurring problems. We inspire and support individuals to become productive citizens who are fully engaged in their communities by…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Home Society of New Jersey; the most unlike its peers is Ryan's Quest Inc. 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

21 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. 21 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG AUDIENCES ARTS FOR LEARNING: $238,000 · OtherYOUNG AUDIENCES ARTS FOR LEARNINGYOUNG AUDIENCES NEW JERSEY & EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $91,500 · OtherYOUNG AUDIENCES NEW JERSEY & EASTERN PENNSYLVANIATHE DIAMOND CLUB - MONTGOMERY BASEBALL: $50,000 · OtherTHE DIAMOND CLUB - MONTGOMERY BASEBALLMONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP BASEBALL LEAGUE: $41,000 · OtherMONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP BASEBALL LEAGUEOLD BARRACKS MUSEUM: $39,000 · OtherOLD BARRACKS MUSEUMMHS DIAMOND CLUB: $30,000 · Other+15 more: $121,500 · Other+15 moreTHE CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY: $330,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW J…DRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL NEW JERSEY: $15,500 · Human Services+4 more: $25,500 · Human Services+4 moreBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MERCER COUNTY INC: $76,500 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHE…GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NJ: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUT…RYAN'S QUEST INC: $40,000 · HealthGREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR THE JEWISH AGED: $5,000 · HealthHOMEFRONT INC: $33,500 · EducationTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc: $16,500 · Food & NutritionPREVENTION EDUCATION INC: $3,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$611,000Human Services$371,000Youth Development$106,500Health$45,000Education$33,500Food & Nutrition$16,500Crime & Legal$3,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY: $330,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MERCER COUNTY INC: $76,500 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP BASEBALL LEAGUE: $41,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetRYAN'S QUEST INC: $40,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC: $33,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NJ: $30,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc: $16,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL NEW JERSEY: $15,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetRescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey: $9,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER DBA CENTER FOR MODERN AGING PRINCETON: $8,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMERCER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKIDSBRIDGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR THE JEWISH AGED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILLHILL CHILD & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER CORPORATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST WINDSOR-PLAINSBORO EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetPREVENTION EDUCATION INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Mercer County Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2,500 over 1y, 19% of budgetWOMANSPACE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds THE CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MERCER COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP BASEBALL LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds RYAN'S QUEST INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NJ ↗
  • Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS CENTRAL NEW JERSEY ↗
  • Who funds Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey ↗
  • Who funds PRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER DBA CENTER FOR MODERN AGING PRINCETON ↗
  • Who funds MERCER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI ↗
  • Who funds KIDSBRIDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR THE JEWISH AGED ↗
  • Who funds MILLHILL CHILD & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds WEST WINDSOR-PLAINSBORO EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PREVENTION EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Meals on Wheels of Mercer County Inc ↗
  • Who funds ARM IN ARM INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds WOMANSPACE INC ↗

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.

Princeton Area Commun…Investors Foundation …Bristol-Myers Squibb …Citizens Philanthropi…The Robert Wood Johns…The Wawa Foundation I…Pseg Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …Oceanfirst FoundationFirstBank Charitable …Merancas Foundation I…Tenacre Foundation
Princeton Area Community Foundation IncNJ33.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Wawa Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Oceanfirst Foundation · FirstBank Charitable Foundation Inc · Merancas Foundation Inc · Tenacre Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Meta a & William S Griffith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meta a & William S Griffith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Womanspace Inc: 72% of income from government
  • The Childrens Home Society of New Jersey: 49% of income from government
  • Prevention Education Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Homefront Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey: 7% of income from government
  • Meals on Wheels of Mercer County Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Arm in Arm Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 34 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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