· Private foundation
The Griffin Charitable Organization
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k5 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| FORT SMITH MUSEUM OF HISTORY | $25,000 |
| MAIN STREET FORT SMITH | $12,000 |
| CITY OF FORT SMITH | $6,116 |
| ADVENTUROUS ALTERNATIVES | $5,725 |
| US MARSHAL'S MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF KITTIES AND KANINES | $1,000 |
| SOUTH GULF COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC | $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 (FY18–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- RHRIVERVIEW HOPE CAMPUS3× · 2017–2024 · $169k · revenue +69%
- FSFORT SMITH MUSEUM OF HISTORY4× · 2018–2025 · $27k · revenue +170%
- FSFORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS2× · 2019–2022 · $23k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- PPPARK PARTNERSone grant, 2020 · $25k
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FORT SMITHone grant, 2020 · $20k
- NSNEXT STEP DAY ROOM INC D/B/A NEXT STEP DAY ROOMgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +84%
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.
Recruitment of jobs and capital investment in fort smith, ar
To serve as catalyst for the continual improvement of the quality of life and the economic well-being of the citizens of the fort smith area
Our mission is to provide non-lethal solutions to the homeless, abandoned, and feral animal population of fort smith, arkansas. we will do this through re-unifying animals with their owners, adopting animals to new families, or…
To enhance the quality of education in the fort smith public schools by providing the necessary funds for programs not otherwise funded by the fort smith public school district.
Funding of library projects.
To support the activities of the fort smith children's emergency shelter, inc. through education and philanthropic activities.
To benefit and carry out purposes of the university of arkansas at fort smith
The friends of the historical museum at fort missoula is organized exclusively for the purpose of aiding and supporting the historical museum at fort missoula to keep missoula's history alive for the enjoyment and education of the public.
To promote the historical and educational purposes of the fort sill national historic landmark museum.
Education of students from three years through eighth grade.
The mission of the Arkansas Air and Military Museum is to establish and maintain a museum for public display of aircraft, aviation artifacts, and military memorabilia from the earliest period to the present with special attention to items…
To facilitate and encourage gifts to fort scott community college to support the college's mission to provide a higher education to students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Smith Art Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 14% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 50 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 MAIN STREET FORT SMITH ↗
- Who funds RIVERVIEW HOPE CAMPUS ↗
- Who funds FORT SMITH MUSEUM OF HISTORY ↗
- Who funds FORT SMITH BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS ↗
- Who funds US MARSHALS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FORT SMITH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEXT STEP DAY ROOM INC D/B/A NEXT STEP DAY ROOM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KITTIES AND KANINES INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREGORY KISTLER TREATMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE SCHOOL OF FORT SMITH ↗
- Who funds FORT SMITH ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRAWFORD COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH GULF CO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds XI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF AR ↗
- Who funds FORT SMITH HERITAGE FOUNDATION 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: Arvest Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · William Thomas & May Pitman Hennessy Foundation · Alline B & Chloe C Davis Charitable Foundation · Elizabeth H & Stanley E Evans Charitable Foundation · Maurras Family Charitable Trust · Walter O Caldwell Foundation · Robert a & Mary Carleton Young Foundation · Doss T Sutton Charitable Foundation Mark Barr and Joe Powers · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Classic Charitable Foundation
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 Organization 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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