Illinois · Private foundation
The Griffith Foods Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $432k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $103k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations The Griffith Foods Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k 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 | 29 | $431k | 48% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $300k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $295k | 54% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $380k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $166k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $447k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $411k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $452k | 46% |
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 Global FoodBanking Network | $395,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $372,952 | 9 | 0% |
| Social Ventures Foundation | $235,000 | 3 | 96% |
| University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation Inc | $225,050 | 3 | 0% |
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $187,164 | 9 | 0% |
| Common Threads | $140,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Worth Township Foundation | $117,775 | 8 | 67% |
| The Port Ministries | $113,321 | 6 | 18% |
| Kids Around the World Inc | $80,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc | $79,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 103 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($630k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Griffith Foods Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 87 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Chicago Community Trust · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Griffith Foods Foundation
- How much does The Griffith Foods Foundation give?
- The Griffith Foods Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $431,536 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Griffith Foods Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (40%), Human Services (19%), International (14%).
- Who are The Griffith Foods Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Global FoodBanking Network ($395k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($373k), Social Ventures Foundation ($235k).
- Does The Griffith Foods Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Griffith Foods Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Griffith Foods Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Enterprise Holdings Foundation, AbbVie Foundation.
- Where is The Griffith Foods Foundation based?
- The Griffith Foods Foundation is based in IL.
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