Illinois · Private foundation
The Griffith Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $326k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations The Griffith Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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 | 21 | $326k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $275k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $310k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $206k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $305k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $523k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $416k | 53% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $330k | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Colorado College | $502,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Chicago Academy of Sciences | $250,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Net Impact | $230,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Geneva Lake Conservancy Inc | $92,900 | 7 | 2% |
| The Navigators | $72,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lake Geneva Fresh Air Association Inc | $65,703 | 6 | 2% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Conservation Coalition Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The International Dark-Sky Association Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 5% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Griffith Family Foundation 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: Dean L & Rosemarie Buntrock Foundation · Carol Bernick Family Foundation · A G Cox Charity Trust Xxxxx9001 · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated · The John a Miller Family Foundation · Milton R Brown Family Foundation · The Simms Family Foundation · Kunes Family Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Sbk Stearns Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Griffith Family Foundation
- How much does The Griffith Family Foundation give?
- The Griffith Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $326,088 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Griffith Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (31%), Education (21%), Environment (14%).
- Who are The Griffith Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Colorado College ($502k), The Chicago Academy of Sciences ($250k), Net Impact ($230k).
- Does The Griffith Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Griffith Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Griffith Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dean L & Rosemarie Buntrock Foundation, Carol Bernick Family Foundation, A G Cox Charity Trust Xxxxx9001.
- Where is The Griffith Family Foundation based?
- The Griffith Family Foundation is based in IL.
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