· Private foundation
Richard M Griffin Sr Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of RICHARD M GRIFFIN SR FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $40,000 |
| CHRISTIAN CRISIS CENTER OF ALEXANDER COUNTY | $10,000 |
| MT PISGAH GOOD SAMARITAN FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN | $6,000 |
| FAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY | $5,000 |
| EVERGREEN CHARTER SCHOOL (EVERGREEN FUND) | $5,000 |
| ARTS CULTURE CATAWBA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NC | $4,000 |
| GREATER HICKORY COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| CENTRO LATINO | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| ENO RIVER ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| SCHOOL OF THE SPIRIT MINISTRY | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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 +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 10 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- HFHabitat For Humanity of Catawba Valley Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $67k · revenue +93%
- FCFAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +20%
Zoe Empowers6× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
- FCFRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATIONone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -25%
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.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
First fruit ministries shares the unconditional love of god through outreach and supportive housing for people experiencing homelessness or trafficking in southeastern north carolina.
Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Believing every individual has sacred value, we equip people to impact the world for good through the love of jesus christ.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Provied temporary and emergency and low income housing and secured shelter.
Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.
The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International and the most unlike its peers is The International Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 88 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 Habitat For Humanity of Catawba Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Zoe Empowers ↗
- Who funds HART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds EXODUS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER HICKORY COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds ONE ACRE CAFE INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE CAMP AND RETREAT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Communities In Partnership ↗
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: George Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Bolick Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · Beaver Family Foundation Inc · Underdown Family Foundation · Tsh Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Service League of Hickory Inc · Catawba County United Way Inc
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 Richard M Griffin Sr Family Foundation 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.