· Private foundation
Rosa May Griffin Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $231k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| First Presbyterian Church-Longview | $25,000 |
| TEXAS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL FND | $25,000 |
| Longview Museum of Fine Arts | $24,000 |
| Arts Longview | $20,000 |
| Hwy 80 Rescue Mission | $20,000 |
| East Texas Pipe Organ Festival | $19,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY PRESS | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,500 |
| Rahabs Retreat and Ranch Inc | $16,000 |
| Gregg County Historical Museum | $15,000 |
| Reel East Texas Film Festival | $12,500 |
| THEATRE LONGVIEW | $10,000 |
| American Diabetes Association | $10,000 |
| Longview ISD Foundation | $7,000 |
| HEARTS ANONYMOUS | $5,750 |
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 (FY18–25, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
63 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- LMLONGVIEW MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS8× · 2018–2025 · $204k · revenue +87%
- GCGREGG COUNTY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +7%
- ALARTS LONGVIEW4× · 2019–2025 · $95k · revenue +169%
Funded once
- PCPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-LONGVIEWone grant, 2020 · $37k
- LWLONGVIEW WORLD OF WONDERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +27%
- JSJUNIOR SERVICE LEAGUEone grant, 2017 · $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.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
Supporting programs involving youth, students, and other services to benefit the local community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Longview United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sabinal Alumni. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
55 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. 55 of the 120 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 TEXAS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LONGVIEW MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds GREGG COUNTY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTS LONGVIEW ↗
- Who funds REEL EAST TEXAS FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds KILGORE HISTORICAL PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RAHABS RETREAT AND RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds HIWAY 80 RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds LONGVIEW ISD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds Schreiner University ↗
- Who funds LONGVIEW COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LONGVIEW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF KILGORE ↗
- Who funds LONGVIEW WORLD OF WONDERS INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE LONGVIEW ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KILGORE ROTARY CLUB ↗
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: 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
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 Rosa May Griffin 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.