California · Private foundation
The Griffith Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $126k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2025
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 68
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations The Griffith Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 | 62 | $123k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 54 | $118k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 65 | $148k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 68 | $224k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $57k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $109k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 47 | $96k | 51% |
| FY2017 | 42 | $63k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 Exploratorium | $110,000 | 8 | 0% |
| California Academy of Sciences | $50,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Huckleberry Youth Programs Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund | $44,000 | 8 | 0% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $32,800 | 7 | 0% |
| San Francisco Parks Alliance | $28,500 | 5 | 0% |
| San Francisco Opera Association | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Enterprise for Youth | $21,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Next Generation Scholars Inc | $19,500 | 8 | 0% |
| California Trout Inc | $17,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($182k), 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: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · McNabb Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Mary a Crocker Trust · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Fred Gellert Family Foundation · Swig Foundation · Bothin Foundation
How this is measured
About The Griffith Family Foundation
- How much does The Griffith Family Foundation give?
- The Griffith Family Foundation reported 65 grants totaling $125,650 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 68 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Griffith Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Science & Tech (17%), Education (11%).
- Who are The Griffith Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Exploratorium ($110k), California Academy of Sciences ($50k), Huckleberry Youth Programs Inc ($50k).
- Does The Griffith Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Griffith Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Griffith Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma.
- Where is The Griffith Family Foundation based?
- The Griffith Family Foundation is based in CA.
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