· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k63 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EXPLORATORIUM | $15,000 |
| HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS | $10,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK | $8,000 |
| COLLEGE OF MARIN | $5,000 |
| CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING | $5,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO OPERA | $5,000 |
| TELEGRAPH HILL ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF CITY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| KQED | $3,000 |
| FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO | $3,000 |
| BELVEDERE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| BELVEDERE COVE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO HOST COMMITTEE | $2,500 |
| CALIFORNIA TROUT | $2,500 |
| SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | $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, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 93% 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 +30% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
83 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- HYHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +38%
- CACALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES6× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +17%
- CSCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND8× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- TWTrust Women Foundation Incone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -30%
- HYHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMSone grant, 2024 · $10k
- HHHUCKLEBERRY HOUSEone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
Bay ecotarium is the largest non-profit 501(c)(3) watershed conservation group in the san francisco bay area committing to global climate resilience and ocean conservation, inspiring actionable environmental stewardship locally, and…
Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates people to solve problems with nature in mind. Our vision is that all people have a close relationship with theirnatural world.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
The Organizations primary impact is to preserve and enhance San Franciscos unique architectural and cultural identity.
Gfa works in partnership with and on behalf of the greater farallones and cordell bank national marine sanctuaries to preserve, monitor, research, educate about and enhance these invaluable marine resources.
The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Zoological Society and the most unlike its peers is Tiburon Peninsula Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
75 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. 75 of the 123 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 THE EXPLORATORIUM ↗
- Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Next Generation Scholars Inc ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA TROUT INC ↗
- Who funds HENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds THE BELVEDERE COVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Trust Women Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BELVEDERE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO HOST COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC VISION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Belvedere Tiburon Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds Project Open Hand ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
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: 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
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 The Griffith 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.