· Private foundation
The Griffin Endowment
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $144k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNC HEATLTH FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $22,000 |
| GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER | $21,518 |
| GREENSBORO DAY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF PALM BEACH | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO | $10,000 |
| PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH | $10,000 |
| SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $10,000 |
| THE PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE | $6,000 |
| THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI | $6,000 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FLORIDA PHILANTHROPHY INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| GREENSBORO SYMPHONY | $2,000 |
| SALEM COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| GREENSBORO BEAUTIFUL | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $320k · revenue +69%- WFWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL8× · 2018–2025 · $285k · revenue +25%
- GIGreensboro Independent School Corp7× · 2019–2025 · $63k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- YYWCAone grant, 2020 · $3k
- FOFRIENDS OF GRACE CHURCH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $3k
- CTCOMMUNITY THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INCone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -5%
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.
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.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 53 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Greensboro Independent School Corp ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TRIAD STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN THE WINDOW INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Griffin Endowment funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Griffin Endowment. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
- The Everglades Club Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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