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Richard M Griffin Sr Family Foundation at a glance

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Richard M Griffin Sr Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$132k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$156kHuman Services$102kReligion$96kEducation$79kFood & Nutrition$44kArts & Culture$42kInternational$39kPublic Safety & Disaster$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$40,000
MT PISGAH GOOD SAMARITAN FOOD PANTRY$10,000
CHRISTIAN CRISIS CENTER OF ALEXANDER COUNTY$10,000
HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN$6,000
FAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY$5,000
ARTS CULTURE CATAWBA$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
EVERGREEN CHARTER SCHOOL (EVERGREEN FUND)$5,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NC$4,000
GREATER HICKORY COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY$4,000
DOCTORS WO BORDERS$3,000
CENTRO LATINO$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
ENO RIVER ASSOCIATION$2,500
SCHOOL OF THE SPIRIT MINISTRY$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER: $2k → 12%FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER: $2k → 12%FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER: $1k → 12%FAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $13k → 12%FAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $5k → 12%FAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $4k → 12%FAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $3k → 12%FAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $3k → 12%EXODUS MINISTRIES: $3k → 12%FAMILY CARE CENTER: $2k → 12%FAMILY CARE CENTER: $2k → 12%FAMILY CARE CENTER: $2k → 12%FAMILY CARE CENTER: $2k → 12%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

IL
WI
NY
PA
NJ
CA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$629k · 52 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
26

Total granted

$629k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

48%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • HF
    Habitat For Humanity of Catawba Valley Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $67k · revenue +93%
  • FC
    FAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +26%
  • Zoe Empowers
    6× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • FC
    FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -25%
  • EM
    EXODUS MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
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
Western Carolina Rescue Ministries Inc

Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless

Housing & Shelter
2
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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3
First Fruit Ministries

First fruit ministries shares the unconditional love of god through outreach and supportive housing for people experiencing homelessness or trafficking in southeastern north carolina.

Religion
4
Haywood Pathways Center Inc

Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.

Housing & Shelter
5
Wnc Lighthouse Inc

The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…

Human Services
6
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services
7
The Raleigh Rescue Mission Inc

Believing every individual has sacred value, we equip people to impact the world for good through the love of jesus christ.

Human Services
8
Carolina Community Care Inc

The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…

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9
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
10
Homes of Hope Inc

Provied temporary and emergency and low income housing and secured shelter.

Housing & Shelter
11
Habitat for Humanity Cabarrus County

Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.

Housing & Shelter
12
Feeding the Carolinas

The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International; the most unlike its peers is The International Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia Foundation 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

36 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. 36 of the 88 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
15/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - CATAWBA VALLEY: $58,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - CATAWBA VALLEYFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $56,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHSAFE HARBOR RESCUE MISSION: $20,500 · OtherHICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC: $19,000 · Other+63 more: $298,050 · Other+63 moreHabitat For Humanity of Catawba Valley Inc: $67,000 · Housing & ShelterHabitat For …BELOVED ASHEVILLE: $10,500 · Housing & ShelterBELOVED ASHE…FAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesQuaker Voluntary Service Inc: $3,250 · Human ServicesEXODUS MINISTRIES: $3,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesEXODUS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 · HealthGREATER HICKORY COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: $14,000 · HealthTHE INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $4,000 · HealthSafe Harbor of NC Inc: $2,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthZoe Empowers: $31,090 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 · InternationalIMPACT GLOBAL HEALTH ALLIANCE: $2,000 · International+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalLENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY: $19,500 · EducationEmory University: $11,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationHART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 · Philanthropy
Other$451,550Housing & Shelter$77,500Human Services$47,750Health$46,000International$39,090Education$31,500Philanthropy$22,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHabitat For Humanity of Catawba Valley Inc: $67,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetFAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC: $35,000 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetZoe Empowers: $31,090 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetLENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY: $19,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC: $19,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetEXODUS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER HICKORY COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $10,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetONE ACRE CAFE INC: $8,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMONROE CAMP AND RETREAT CENTER INC: $7,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCommunities In Partnership: $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLUMBERTON CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetRECONCILING MINISTRIES NETWORK: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROBESON COUNTY COMMITTEE ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetQuaker Voluntary Service Inc: $3,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEXODUS MINISTRIES: $3,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC: $2,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACT GLOBAL HEALTH ALLIANCE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAIL INITIATIVE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPATRICK BEAVER LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 Habitat For Humanity of Catawba Valley Inc ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds Zoe Empowers ↗
  • Who funds HART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds EXODUS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER HICKORY COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
  • Who funds ONE ACRE CAFE INC ↗
  • Who funds MONROE CAMP AND RETREAT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Communities In Partnership ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER 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.

George Foundation IncNorth Carolina Commun…The Bolick FoundationThe Cannon Foundation…Foundation for the Ca…E Rhodes and Leona B …Beaver Family Foundat…Underdown Family Foun…Tsh Charitable Founda…Duke Energy FoundationService League of Hic…Catawba County United…
George Foundation IncNC30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Richard M Griffin Sr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard M Griffin Sr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 88 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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