North Carolina · Private foundation
Richard M Griffin Sr Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $132k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Richard M Griffin Sr Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $132k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $130k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $72k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $85k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $71k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $65k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $54k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $57k | 36% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Habitat For Humanity of Catawba Valley Inc | $67,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Family Care Center of Catawba Valley Inc | $35,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Zoe Empowers | $31,090 | 6 | 0% |
| Hart Square Foundation Inc | $22,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Lenoir-Rhyne University | $19,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Hickory Soup Kitchen Inc | $19,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Exodus Outreach Foundation Inc | $18,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Greater Hickory Cooperative Christian Ministry | $14,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Emory University | $11,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Beloved Asheville | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($361k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richard M Griffin Sr Family 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: George Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Bolick Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · Beaver Family Foundation Inc · Underdown Family Foundation · Tsh Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Service League of Hickory Inc · Catawba County United Way Inc
How this is measured
Compare Richard M Griffin Sr Family Foundation with peer funders
About Richard M Griffin Sr Family Foundation
- How much does Richard M Griffin Sr Family Foundation give?
- Richard M Griffin Sr Family Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $132,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Richard M Griffin Sr Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (22%), Human Services (14%), Religion (13%).
- Who are Richard M Griffin Sr Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Habitat For Humanity of Catawba Valley Inc ($67k), Family Care Center of Catawba Valley Inc ($35k), Zoe Empowers ($31k).
- Does Richard M Griffin Sr Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Richard M Griffin Sr Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Richard M Griffin Sr Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include George Foundation Inc, North Carolina Community Foundation, The Bolick Foundation.
- Where is Richard M Griffin Sr Family Foundation based?
- Richard M Griffin Sr Family Foundation is based in NC.
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