Texas · Private foundation
Rosa May Griffin Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $332k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Rosa May Griffin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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 | 44 | $332k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $347k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $302k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $290k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $352k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $333k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $258k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $323k | 59% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Shakespeare Festival Foundation | $398,800 | 8 | 22% |
| Longview Museum of Fine Arts | $204,000 | 8 | 10% |
| Gregg County Historical Foundation | $102,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Arts Longview | $95,000 | 4 | 20% |
| Reel East Texas Film Festival | $88,758 | 8 | 23% |
| Kilgore Historical Preservation Foundation | $81,500 | 4 | 23% |
| East Texas Baptist University | $80,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Rahabs Retreat and Ranch Inc | $68,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Hiway 80 Rescue Mission | $62,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Longview Isd Foundation Inc | $50,500 | 9 | 10% |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rosa May Griffin Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Crain Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · Wece B and Martha a Johnson Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation · Patsy B Hollandsworth Family Foundation · Greater Longview United Way Inc · Eastman Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Eastman Credit Union · Mobley Foundation Co Nancy Mobley · Junior League of Longview Inc
How this is measured
About Rosa May Griffin Foundation
- How much does Rosa May Griffin Foundation give?
- Rosa May Griffin Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $331,530 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Rosa May Griffin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (45%), Education (11%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are Rosa May Griffin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Texas Shakespeare Festival Foundation ($399k), Longview Museum of Fine Arts ($204k), Gregg County Historical Foundation ($102k).
- Does Rosa May Griffin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rosa May Griffin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rosa May Griffin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Crain Foundation, East Texas Communities Foundation, Wece B and Martha a Johnson Foundation.
- Where is Rosa May Griffin Foundation based?
- Rosa May Griffin Foundation is based in TX.
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