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Rosa May Griffin Foundation at a glance

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Rosa May Griffin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$332k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.3MEducation$314kHuman Services$187kHealth$160kReligion$139kYouth Development$126kHousing & Shelter$120kRecreation & Sports$95kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $101k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $231k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL FND$25,000
First Presbyterian Church-Longview$25,000
Longview Museum of Fine Arts$24,000
Hwy 80 Rescue Mission$20,000
Arts Longview$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
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HEARLIGHT MINISTRIES: $500 → 16%THE DICKEY FOUNDATION: $500 → 5%Heartlight Ministries: $500 → 16%One Love World: $3k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF LONGVIEW INC: $15k → 16%Asbury Child Enrichment Center: $5k → 16%ASBURY CHILD ENRICHMENT CENTER: $2k → 16%Asbury Child Enrichment Center: $1k → 16%Asbury Child Enrichment Center: $1k → 16%Rahabs Retreat and Ranch Inc: $16k → 16%Rahabs Retreat and Ranch Inc: $10k → 16%Rahabs Retreat and Ranch Inc: $9k → 16%Rahabs Retreat and Ranch Inc: $8k → 16%Helping Hands of Kilgore: $8k → 16%Rahabs Retreat and Ranch Inc: $8k → 16%Helping Hands of Kilgore: $5k → 16%HELPING HANDS OF KILGORE: $5k → 16%Helping Hands of Kilgore: $5k → 16%Helping Hands of Kilgore: $3k → 16%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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 63 repeat orgs$317k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
48

Total granted

$2.5M
$275k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+27%

Still filing today

51%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • LM
    LONGVIEW MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
    8× · 2018–2025 · $204k · revenue +87%
  • GC
    GREGG COUNTY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +7%
  • AL
    ARTS LONGVIEW
    4× · 2019–2025 · $95k · revenue +169%

Funded once

  • PC
    PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-LONGVIEW
    one grant, 2020 · $37k
  • LW
    LONGVIEW WORLD OF WONDERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +27%
  • JS
    JUNIOR SERVICE LEAGUE
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
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
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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2
Texas Trust Gives
Philanthropy
3
Texas Christian University

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…

Education
4
Greater Texas Foundation
Education
5
Texas Flying Legends Museum
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6
Good News Foundation of Texas
Philanthropy
7
Texas Clean Energy Coalition
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8
Tx Performing Chinese Arts
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9
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
10
The Good Foundation of Texas
Philanthropy
11
Usvmc East Texas
Public Benefit
12
Central Texas Exposition

Supporting programs involving youth, students, and other services to benefit the local community

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Longview United Way Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 120 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
36/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

First Presbyterian Church-Longview: $141,784 · OtherFirst Presbyterian Church-LongviewFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-KILGORE: $137,684 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-KILGOREIndividual grant recipient: $102,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGREGG COUNTY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $102,000 · OtherGREGG COUNTY HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $67,500 · OtherEast Texas Pipe Organ Festival: $64,000 · OtherHIWAY 80 RESCUE MISSION: $62,500 · Other+76 more: $699,110 · Other+76 moreTEXAS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $398,800 · Arts & CultureTEXAS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL FOUNDATIONLONGVIEW MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $204,000 · Arts & CultureLONGVIEW MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSARTS LONGVIEW: $95,000 · Arts & CultureARTS LONGVIEWREEL EAST TEXAS FILM FESTIVAL: $88,758 · Arts & CultureREEL EAST TEXAS FILM FESTIVALKILGORE HISTORICAL PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $81,500 · Arts & CultureKILGORE HISTORICAL PRESERVATION FOUND…+5 more: $49,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreRAHABS RETREAT AND RANCH INC: $68,000 · Human ServicesLONGVIEW COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $26,000 · Human ServicesLONGVIEW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25,359 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS OF KILGORE: $25,100 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF LONGVIEW INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesASBURY HOUSE CHILD ENRICHMENT CENTER: $8,500 · Human ServicesTEXAS OILFIELD ANGELS: $7,000 · Human Services+5 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesEAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · EducationLONGVIEW ISD FOUNDATION INC: $50,500 · EducationSchreiner University: $29,000 · EducationLeTourneau University: $10,000 · Education+5 more: $8,500 · EducationAmerican Diabetes Association: $45,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $15,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,500 · HealthMEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC: $42,500 · Food & NutritionSOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · Recreation & SportsWINDRIDGE THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER OF EAST TEXAS INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,377,328Arts & Culture$917,058Human Services$189,959Education$178,000Health$62,500Food & Nutrition$42,500Recreation & Sports$27,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEXAS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $398,800 over 8y, 22% of budgetLONGVIEW MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $204,000 over 8y, 9.9% of budgetGREGG COUNTY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $102,000 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetARTS LONGVIEW: $95,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetREEL EAST TEXAS FILM FESTIVAL: $88,758 over 8y, 23% of budgetKILGORE HISTORICAL PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $81,500 over 4y, 23% of budgetEAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRAHABS RETREAT AND RANCH INC: $68,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetHIWAY 80 RESCUE MISSION: $62,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLONGVIEW ISD FOUNDATION INC: $50,500 over 9y, 9.6% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC: $42,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSchreiner University: $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLONGVIEW COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $26,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLONGVIEW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25,359 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetHELPING HANDS OF KILGORE: $25,100 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetLONGVIEW WORLD OF WONDERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHEATRE LONGVIEW: $17,500 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKILGORE ROTARY CLUB: $15,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF LONGVIEW INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST TEXAS CHILD ADVOCATES INC: $14,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLONGVIEW BALLET THEATRE: $12,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetMARTIN HOUSE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $12,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWINDRIDGE THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER OF EAST TEXAS INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLeTourneau University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASBURY HOUSE CHILD ENRICHMENT CENTER: $8,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTEXAS OILFIELD ANGELS: $7,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetPARENTING RESOURCE CENTER OF EAST TEXAS INC: $5,500 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetEAST TEXAS LITERACY COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWOMENS CENTER OF EAST TEXAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSABINAL ALUMNI: $4,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetEAST TEXAS SYMPHONIC BAND INC: $3,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetONE LOVE WORLD: $3,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Texas Law School Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST TEXAS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEAST TEXAS ARTS & WELLNESS: $2,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COLLIN COUNTY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSalesmanship Club of Dallas: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LONGVIEW CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER LONGVIEW UNITED WAY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKILLEEN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION IN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEARTISANS MARKETPLACE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $1,000 over 1y, 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 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 ↗

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.

The Crain FoundationEast Texas Communitie…Wece B and Martha a J…American Electric Pow…Ben and Maytee Fisch …Patsy B Hollandsworth…Greater Longview Unit…Eastman FoundationGreater Houston Commu…Eastman Credit UnionMobley Foundation Co …Junior League of Long…
The Crain FoundationTX57.4× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Rosa May Griffin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rosa May Griffin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%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
    16report 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 120 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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