North Carolina · Private foundation
The Griffin Endowment
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $177k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations The Griffin Endowment funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $177k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $191k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $214k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $200k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $183k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $181k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $198k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $147k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unc Health Foundation Inc | $320,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Woodberry Forest School | $285,341 | 8 | 0% |
| Greensboro Independent School Corp | $63,000 | 7 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Greensboro Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $47,969 | 6 | 0% |
| Mote Marine Laboratory Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Society of the Four Arts Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Sarasota and Desoto Counties Inc | $33,115 | 3 | 0% |
| The Natural Science Center of Greensboro Inc Dba Greensboro Science Center | $32,518 | 7 | 0% |
| Salem Academy and College | $32,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($325k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Griffin Endowment supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Griffin Family Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I · The Cemala Foundation Inc · The Hummel Family Fund Inc · Smith Richardson Foundation Inc · The Anonymous Fund · Well-Spring Retirement Community Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Hillsdale Fund · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc
How this is measured
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About The Griffin Endowment
- How much does The Griffin Endowment give?
- The Griffin Endowment reported 25 grants totaling $176,743 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Griffin Endowment fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Health (22%), Religion (13%).
- Who are The Griffin Endowment's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Unc Health Foundation Inc ($320k), Woodberry Forest School ($285k), Greensboro Independent School Corp ($63k).
- Does The Griffin Endowment fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Griffin Endowment accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Griffin Endowment?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Griffin Family Foundation, Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc, Amg Charitable Gift Foundation.
- Where is The Griffin Endowment based?
- The Griffin Endowment is based in NC.
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