· Private foundation
Meta a & William S Griffith 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of META A & WILLIAM S GRIFFITH FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG AUDIENCES ARTS FOR LEARNING | $43,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY | $25,000 |
| THE DIAMOND CLUB - MONTGOMERY BASEBALL | $15,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MERCER COUNTY | $10,000 |
| MONTGOMERY BASEBALL LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR MODERN AGING PRINCETON | $3,500 |
| HOMEFRONT | $3,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY | $2,500 |
| TRENTON AREA SOUP KITCHEN | $2,500 |
| DRESS FOR SUCCESS | $2,500 |
| OLD BARRACKS MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN OF CENTRAL NJ | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $345k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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 JERSEY8× · 2017–2024 · $310k · revenue +57%
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MERCER COUNTY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $67k · revenue +12%- MTMONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP BASEBALL LEAGUE5× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- MDMHS DIAMOND CLUBone grant, 2019 · $30k
- MHMONTGOMERY HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL DIAMOND CLUBone grant, 2021 · $20k
- MBMONTGOMERY BASEBALL DIAMOND CLUBone grant, 2022 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.…
Child care program for children of various financial backgrounds.
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…
United Way of Mercer County champions the needs of children and families in our region.
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…
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.
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,…
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.
Nurturing wellness and self-sufficiency in vulnerable youth, your adults and their families
To assist the homebound elderly/disabled of Hunterdon, New Jersey to maintain their independence by enhancing their nutritional health, thereby avoiding unwanted institutionalization.
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…
When a family is in crisis, Bridges is there to offer support by providing respite and host homes for children in our community. Children visit respite homes for several hours after school or on weekends to enjoy the benefit of a nurturing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Home Society of New Jersey and 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.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 MILLHILL CHILD & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KIDSBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR THE JEWISH AGED ↗
- 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds ARM IN ARM INC ↗
- Who funds WOMANSPACE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Meta a & William S Griffith Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.