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The Griffin Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$850k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$2.6MHuman Services$573kPublic Safety & Disaster$180kEducation$168kYouth Development$153kArts & Culture$139kScience & Tech$123kHousing & Shelter$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $306k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $201k
  • $250k+1 grant · $850k
$17,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE SALVATION ARMY OF ROME$20,000
CURE SANFILIPPO FOUNDATION$20,000
ST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCH$20,000
ROME RESCUE MISSION$20,000
ST PAUL'S CATHOLIC CHURCH$19,750
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA LEATHERSTOCKING COUNCIL$18,130
BROADWAY THEATER LEAGUE OF UTICA$17,500
DELTA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$17,500
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC: $175k → 11%COMFORT HOUSE INC DBA ABRAHAM HOUSE: $40k → 16%COMFORT HOUSE INC DBA ABRAHAM HOUSE: $5k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of The Griffin Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 60%.

The Griffin Charitable Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 39% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 23 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
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Total granted

$3.0M
$867k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+14%

Still filing today

57%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $304k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • RR
    ROME RESCUE MISSION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +98%
  • CH
    COMFORT HOUSE INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $45k · revenue +9%
  • KC
    KEYS CORP
    4× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • CP
    CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $175k · revenue +14%
  • K
    KELBERMAN
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • RC
    ROME CATHOLIC SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $82k
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
Hospice of Chenango County Inc

To provide end of life care and bereavement counseling to the terminally ill and their families in chenango county, new york.

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2
The Paul Robert Carey Foundation

Enabling people battling cancer and other diseases to obtain vital quality of life needs and services not funded by traditional medical reimbursements.

Philanthropy
3
Harbor House of Rochester Inc

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.

Religion
4
High Peaks Hospice & Palliative Care in

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

Human Services
5
Hospice of Metropolitan Erie Inc

To provide support to the terminally ill

Human Services
6
Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc

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…

Human Services
7
Oswego Health Inc

The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.

Health
8
St Joseph's Medical Pc

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.

Health
9
Oneida Healthcare Corporation

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.

Health
10
Crouse Community Center Inc

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…

Health
11
St Catherine of Siena Medical Center

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.

Health
12
Crossroads House

To provide a comfort care home for the residents of genesee county and wyoming county.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 61 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
16/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROME MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,650,000 · OtherROME MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCONEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherONEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATIONBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - LEATHERSTOCKING COUNCIL: $118,130 · Other+39 more: $1,102,921 · Other+39 moreROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $400,000 · PhilanthropyROSWELL PARK…ROME COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyROME COMMUNI…+3 more: $21,250 · PhilanthropyCLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC: $175,000 · Human ServicesCOMFORT HOUSE INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROOT FARM INC: $75,000 · HealthMASONIC MEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY: $71,000 · HealthCure Sanfilippo Foundation: $28,000 · HealthCHARLES T SITRIN HEALTH CARE CENTERINC: $10,000 · HealthJOSEPH MICHAEL CHUBBUCK FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · HealthCAPITOL CIVIC CENTER INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureKEYS CORP: $35,000 · Arts & CultureCONSTABLE HALL ASSOCIATION INC: $26,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureROME RESCUE MISSION INC: $55,000 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterVOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF WESTERN INC: $50,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$3,071,051Philanthropy$446,250Human Services$220,000Health$191,000Arts & Culture$156,000Housing & Shelter$80,000Public Safety & Disaster$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROME MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,650,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC: $175,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCAPITOL CIVIC CENTER INC: $90,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetCENTRAL ONEIDA COUNTY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $80,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE ROOT FARM INC: $75,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetMASONIC MEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY: $71,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetROME RESCUE MISSION INC: $55,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC: $51,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJERVIS PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION OF UTICA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY OF WESTERN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCOMFORT HOUSE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetPROJECT FIBONACCI FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetKEYS CORP: $35,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetCure Sanfilippo Foundation: $28,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCONSTABLE HALL ASSOCIATION INC: $26,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetROME COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUTICA UNIVERSITY: $24,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTEGRATED COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES NETWORK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROADWAY THEATRE LEAGUE OF UTICA INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPAIGE'S BUTTERFLY RUN INC: $11,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCHARLES T SITRIN HEALTH CARE CENTERINC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELIEVE 271 FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetJOSEPH MICHAEL CHUBBUCK FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budget4 ELEMENTS STUDIO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFEED OUR VETERANS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HERKIMER AND ONEIDA COUNTIES INC: $250 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.

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 Community Foundat…Hazen B Hinman Sr Fou…Utica National Group …The James H Wurz Jr a…Indium Corporation an…Bank of Utica Foundat…Rome Community Founda…Joseph and Inez E Car…Central New York Comm…UpMobility Foundation…Jim and Juli Boeheim …Baird Foundation Inc
The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties IncNY40.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Griffin Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Griffin Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 61 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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