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The Griffith Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
65
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$186kScience & Tech$160kEducation$104kYouth Development$86kEnvironment$66kRecreation & Sports$63kFood & Nutrition$60kHuman Services$53kOther$0
02FY2025 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k63 grants · $101k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EXPLORATORIUM$15,000
HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS$10,000
SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK$8,000
FOUNDATION OF CITY COLLEGE$5,000
CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING$5,000
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA$5,000
TELEGRAPH HILL ASSOCIATION$5,000
COLLEGE OF MARIN$5,000
BELVEDERE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$3,000
KQED$3,000
FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO$3,000
BELVEDERE COVE FOUNDATION$3,000
CALIFORNIA TROUT$2,500
SAN FRANCISCO HOST COMMITTEE$2,500
HENRY'S FORK FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $1k → 7%MARIN VILLAGES: $1k → 8%MARIN VILLAGES: $500 → 8%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $10k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $10k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $10k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $10k → 10%MARIN VILLAGES: $500 → 8%MARIN VILLAGES: $250 → 8%MARIN VILLAGES: $250 → 8%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
ID
NY
CA
VA
AZ
KS
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$877k · 83 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
35

Total granted

$877k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
0%

Still filing today

70%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CA
    CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    6× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +17%
  • HY
    HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +38%
  • CS
    CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND
    8× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • TW
    Trust Women Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -30%
  • HY
    HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • HH
    HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
2
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
Sustainable Conservation

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…

Environment
5
Bayorg

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Bay Nature Institute dba Bay Nature Bay Nature Magazine

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.

Environment
7
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
8
Balboa Park Conservancy

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…

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9
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
10
San Francisco Architectural Heritage

The Organizations primary impact is to preserve and enhance San Franciscos unique architectural and cultural identity.

Arts & Culture
11
Greater Farallones Association

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.

Animals
12
The Bar Association of San Francisco

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Zoological Society; 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.
04the grantee network

75 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. 75 of the 123 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/75
Grantees still filing
52/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE EXPLORATORIUM: $110,000 · Arts & CultureTHE EXPLORATORIUMCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCESSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $27,500 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATIONSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $17,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATIONKQED INC: $17,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INCSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $16,750 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONYCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $16,300 · Arts & CultureCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSE…SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $10,500 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $18,700 · Arts & Culture+7 moreSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $32,800 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKTHE FOUNDATION OF CITY COLLEGE: $25,000 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION OF CITY COLLEGETELEGRAPH HILL ASSOCIATION: $23,500 · OtherTELEGRAPH HILL ASSOCIATIONHENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · OtherCOLLEGE OF MARIN: $16,500 · OtherTHE BELVEDERE COVE FOUNDATION: $15,750 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO MARITIME MUSEUM: $15,500 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $28,500 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCECALIFORNIA TROUT INC: $17,500 · OtherENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH: $21,500 · OtherGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $14,000 · Other+65 more: $186,300 · Other+65 moreCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND: $44,000 · Food & NutritionMARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $12,250 · Food & NutritionProject Open Hand: $8,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $1,500 · Food & NutritionNext Generation Scholars Inc: $19,500 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10,000 · EducationBelvedere Tiburon Library Foundation: $8,550 · Education10000 DEGREES: $7,500 · EducationThe Thacher School Inc: $6,250 · EducationThe Climate Center: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesMarin Villages: $2,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesTrust Women Foundation Inc: $12,000 · HealthGREENLIGHT CLINIC: $11,500 · HealthPACIFIC VISION FOUNDATION: $9,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,500 · Health+3 more: $1,550 · HealthSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $15,500 · EnvironmentGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $7,000 · EnvironmentBaykeeper: $4,250 · EnvironmentGREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE: $3,500 · EnvironmentSave The Bay: $2,750 · EnvironmentAUDUBON CANYON RANCH INC: $2,500 · EnvironmentMARIN AUDUBON SOCIETY: $1,850 · Environment+3 more: $700 · Environment
Arts & Culture$283,750Other$414,350Food & Nutrition$66,250Education$54,800Human Services$53,500Health$38,550Environment$38,050

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE EXPLORATORIUM: $110,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND: $44,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $32,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $28,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH: $21,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNext Generation Scholars Inc: $19,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA TROUT INC: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $17,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $16,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $16,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BELVEDERE COVE FOUNDATION: $15,750 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $15,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $12,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTrust Women Foundation Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBELVEDERE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11,750 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetGREENLIGHT CLINIC: $11,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO HOST COMMITTEE: $9,800 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetPACIFIC VISION FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBelvedere Tiburon Library Foundation: $8,550 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetProject Open Hand: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budget10000 DEGREES: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc: $6,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTiburon Peninsula Foundation: $5,750 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetWILDCARE: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGLIDE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $4,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBaykeeper: $4,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH BAY AQUATICS: $4,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Spaulding Wooden Boat Center: $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDrawBridge: $3,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBURNING MAN PROJECT: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Bay: $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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 EXPLORATORIUM ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • 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 ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
  • Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗

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.

Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…Jewish Community Fede…McNabb FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Mary a Crocker TrustLisa & Douglas Goldma…Leonard & Beryl Buck …PatagoniaorgThe Fred Gellert Fami…Swig FoundationBothin Foundation
Marin Community FoundationCA49.2× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 123 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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