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Parker Griffith Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$126k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$286kHealth$173kReligion$168kArts & Culture$111kHuman Services$40kEnvironment$38kCommunity Improvement$34kScience & Tech$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
$1,800
Median grant
6
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY$15,000
GRISSOM HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
WELLSTONE INC$10,000
THE VINE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,000
HISTORIC HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION$6,000
ARTS HUNTSVILLE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
HUNTSVILLE ROTARY CLUB$4,445
Individual grant recipient$4,000
LAWRENCE COUNTY TECH CENTER$4,000
AMERICAN ASSOC PROFESSIONAL CODERS$3,600
Individual grant recipient$3,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$3,000
EMPOWERING STRATEGIES$2,500
02The need
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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 (FY17–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%ALABAMA POSSIBLE: $2k → 16%ALABAMA POSSIBLE: $500 → 16%SAVED IN THE CITY: $3k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
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AL
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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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$801k · 77 repeat orgs$336k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

77 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
176

Total granted

$801k
$302k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+5%

Still filing today

30%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CF
    CENTERSTONE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2020 · $35k · revenue +46%
  • MB
    MUSEUM BOARD OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +43%
  • RJ
    ROSETTA JAMES SCHOLARSHIP FDN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • GA
    GROVE ACADEMY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • TH
    THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +71%
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
Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame
Arts & Culture
2
Alabama Regional Medical Services

To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers

Health
3
The Children's Hospital of Alabama

The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…

Health
4
Chattahoochee Hospice Inc

The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.

Human Services
5
Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

Education
6
Habitat for Humanity of Baldwin County Inc

Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

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7
Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils

Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama

Environment
8
Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Ala

To help find a cure for breast cancer by funding promising breast cancer research in alabama and to raise community awareness and funding for that research.

Health
9
Alabama a&M University Foundation

The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…

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10
Alabama Chapter of American Academy of Pediatrics

Obtain optimal health & well-being for all children in alabama, and to provide educational and practice support for its membership so the highest quality of medical care can be achieved.

Health
11
Harpeth Conservancy

To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.

Environment
12
Houston Christian University

The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alabama; the most unlike its peers is Guntersvill Historical Society 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

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 271 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/62
Grantees still filing
37/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY: $100,000 · OtherEPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE NATIVITYIndividual grant recipient: $52,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE VINE: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $34,500 · OtherGRISSOM HIGH SCHOOL: $34,000 · Other+161 more: $558,653 · Other+161 moreCENTERSTONE FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthCENTERSTON…THE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC: $19,000 · HealthTHE HUNTSV…THERAPY PARTNERS INC: $17,000 · HealthTHERAPY PA…WELLSTONE INC: $10,000 · HealthWELLSTONE …New Hope Children's Clinic: $6,500 · HealthNew Hope C…AIDS ACTION COALITION OF HUNTSVILLE: $5,000 · Health+5 more: $7,250 · Health+5 moreROSETTA JAMES SCHOLARSHIP FDN: $19,500 · EducationVanderbilt University: $14,626 · EducationHUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION: $13,700 · EducationTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationRURAL SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE INC: $7,500 · EducationSAINT BERNARD ACADEMY: $5,300 · EducationHUNTSVILLE BIBLE COLLEGE INC: $4,000 · EducationBATON ROUGE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Education+2 more: $3,500 · EducationMUSEUM BOARD OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE: $34,300 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 · Arts & CultureTWICKENHAM FEST: $5,700 · Arts & CultureTHE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER: $4,500 · Arts & CultureAshaKiran Inc: $12,500 · Human ServicesKIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION: $9,500 · Human ServicesUNITED WOMEN OF COLOR: $3,000 · Human ServicesSAVED IN THE CITY INCORPORATED: $2,500 · Human ServicesALABAMA POSSIBLE: $2,000 · Human ServicesTENNESSEE RIVERKEEPER: $15,750 · EnvironmentTHE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentCREATIVE CITIES FUND: $12,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS INC: $2,000 · Community Improvement
Other$814,653Health$99,750Education$81,126Arts & Culture$58,500Human Services$29,500Environment$20,750Community Improvement$14,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTERSTONE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMUSEUM BOARD OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE: $34,300 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetROSETTA JAMES SCHOLARSHIP FDN: $19,500 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetTHE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC: $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHERAPY PARTNERS INC: $17,000 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetTENNESSEE RIVERKEEPER: $15,750 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $14,626 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetHUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION: $13,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAshaKiran Inc: $12,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRURAL SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE INC: $7,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNew Hope Children's Clinic: $6,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN ACCESSIBILITY PROJECT: $6,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetTWICKENHAM FEST: $5,700 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetSAINT BERNARD ACADEMY: $5,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAIDS ACTION COALITION OF HUNTSVILLE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHUNTSVILLE-MADISON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHelen Keller Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHUNTSVILLE BIBLE COLLEGE INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBATON ROUGE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WOMEN OF COLOR: $3,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGUNTERSVILL HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetSAVED IN THE CITY INCORPORATED: $2,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetALABAMA POSSIBLE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHOSPICE OF MARSHALL COUNTY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRINITY FORUM INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTERLING COLLEGE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKRUZN FOR A KURE FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDHAVEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALABAMA FREE CLINIC INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYES IN MY BACK YARD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClifton Christian Church Food Bank: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDOHENY EYE INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMARY QUEEN OF HEAVEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARRIS HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLAYTON E MONEYMAKER POST NO 237 DEPARTMENT OF ALA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 CENTERSTONE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM BOARD OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE ↗
  • Who funds ROSETTA JAMES SCHOLARSHIP FDN ↗
  • Who funds THE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds THERAPY PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE RIVERKEEPER ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AshaKiran Inc ↗
  • Who funds CREATIVE CITIES FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WELLSTONE INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds RURAL SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE 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.

Community Foundation …The Propst FoundationThe Jane K Lowe Chari…Wallace E Kirkpatrick…Alpha FoundationThe Daniel Foundation…The Beard-Young Famil…Ashburn Family Founda…John a Jurenko Et Al …The Long Lewis Founda…The I3 Cares Foundati…Doris Burwell Foundat…
Community Foundation of Greater HuntsvilleAL42.9× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · The Propst Foundation · The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation · Alpha Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Beard-Young Family Foundation · Ashburn Family Foundation · John a Jurenko Et Al Foundation · The Long Lewis Foundation · The I3 Cares Foundation · Doris Burwell 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 Parker Griffith Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Parker Griffith Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Parker Griffith Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Parker Griffith Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 271 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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