· Private foundation
The Griffith Family Foundation
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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEGGY NOTEBAERT NATURE MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $50,000 |
| FORUM FOR THE FUTURE US | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION | $25,000 |
| CHRIST IN THE DESERT | $20,000 |
| HOLIDAY HOME CAMP | $10,000 |
| HIGHER GROUND | $10,000 |
| GENEVA LAKE WATER SAFETY PATROL | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| PROJECT DRAWDOWN | $10,000 |
| GENEVA AREA FOUNDATION HORTICULTURA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GENEVA LAKE ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| GENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 23 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE COLORADO COLLEGE4× · 2019–2023 · $502k · revenue +25%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +23%- GLGENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC7× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +226%
Funded once
- TMTRINITY METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $50k
- GLGENEVA LAKE SAILING SCHOOL INCone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -8%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEone grant, 2021 · $7k
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
One Earth connects thinkers, doers, activists, and knowledge holders from around the world to solve humanity's greatest ecological challenges--together. Our belief is simple: The solutions to the climate crisis already exist. By connecting…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
How this is measured
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 73 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 THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds NET IMPACT ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE GENEVA FRESH AIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORUM FOR THE FUTURE US INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT DRAWDOWN ↗
- Who funds GENEVA AREA FOUNDATION INC HORTICULTURAL HALL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KISHWAUKETOE ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKE SAILING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TABOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LAKE GENEVA COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Zoological Society ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Griffith Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Griffith Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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