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The Griffin Family Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4k
Granted FY2020
2
Grants FY2020
2
Organizations funded FY2020
50%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$1,950
Largest grant, FY2020
$1,950
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 50% of the organizations The Griffin Family Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20202$4k50%
FY20194$520k0%
FY20185$26k20%
FY20175$22kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Education$298kHuman Services$273k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The House of Ruth Maryland Inc$271,95043%
Radcliffe Creek School Inc$12,50020%
Perspectives Charter Schools$11,50030%
The St Pauls Schools Inc$1,9501n/a
Childcare Network of Evanston$1,50020%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($272k), not named here.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Griffin Family Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does The Griffin Family Charitable Foundation Inc give?
The Griffin Family Charitable Foundation Inc reported 2 grants totaling $3,900 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does The Griffin Family Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (52%), Human Services (48%).
Who are The Griffin Family Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: The House of Ruth Maryland Inc ($272k), Radcliffe Creek School Inc ($13k), Perspectives Charter Schools ($12k).
Does The Griffin Family Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Griffin Family Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Griffin Family Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Griffin Family Charitable Foundation Inc based?
The Griffin Family Charitable Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 7 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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