· Private foundation
The Griffin Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $306k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $201k
- $250k+1 grant · $850k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROME HEALTH FOUNDATION | $850,000 |
| ONEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC (HPCI) | $51,000 |
| RESCUE MISSION UTICA | $50,000 |
| ST PETER'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $40,000 |
| PROJECT FIBONACCI FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| ROME COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ROME RESCUE MISSION | $20,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $20,000 |
| CURE SANFILIPPO FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY OF ROME | $20,000 |
| ST PAUL'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $19,750 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA LEATHERSTOCKING COUNCIL | $18,130 |
| DELTA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $17,500 |
| BROADWAY THEATER LEAGUE OF UTICA | $17,500 |
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 (FY21–23, $220k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of The Griffin Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 60% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $304k 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
- RRROME RESCUE MISSION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +98%
- CHCOMFORT HOUSE INC2× · 2021–2022 · $45k · revenue +9%
- KCKEYS CORP4× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- CPCLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INCone grant, 2023 · $175k · revenue -1%
- KKELBERMANone grant, 2023 · $100k
- RCROME CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $82k
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.
To provide end of life care and bereavement counseling to the terminally ill and their families in chenango county, new york.
Enabling people battling cancer and other diseases to obtain vital quality of life needs and services not funded by traditional medical reimbursements.
To provide temporary lodging for families of adult critical care patients who live outside the rochester, ny area and are receiving care at local hospitals.
Dignity, comfort and peace at the end of life high peaks hospice & palliative care, inc provides end of life care that listens with respect, cares with compassion, supports with choice, and comforts with understanding wherever you call home
To provide support to the terminally ill
Regional hospice approaches death by creating human connection and honoring each unique journey through a shared vision for living.our vision & values:-we believe no two patients are the same; no end-of-life experience is, either. our…
The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
We, st. joseph's medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's medical is a member of st. joseph's health and trinity health.
The mission of oneida healthcare corporation is to respond to the shortage of decent, safe and sanitary healthcare facilities by planning, constructing, owning, and financing healthcare facilities for the use of oneida health.
Crouse community center, inc is a residential health care facility whose mission is to provide long term health care, rehabilitation, and adult day care services to area residents requiring 24 hour skilled nursing residential health care…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
To provide a comfort care home for the residents of genesee county and wyoming county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc and the most unlike its peers is 4 Elements Studio Inc. 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 30 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 61 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 ROME MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL CIVIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ONEIDA COUNTY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROOT FARM INC ↗
- Who funds MASONIC MEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds ROME RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF WESTERN INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION OF UTICA INC ↗
- Who funds JERVIS PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMFORT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds KEYS CORP ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FIBONACCI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cure Sanfilippo Foundation ↗
- Who funds CONSTABLE HALL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds ROME COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTICA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES NETWORK INC ↗
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 Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc · Hazen B Hinman Sr Foundation Inc · Utica National Group Foundation Inc · The James H Wurz Jr and Edward T Wurz Sr Foundation · Indium Corporation and Macartney Family Foundation Inc · Bank of Utica Foundation Inc · Rome Community Foundation · Joseph and Inez E Carbone Foundation · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · UpMobility Foundation Inc · Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation 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 The Griffin Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
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