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The Griffith Foods Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$432k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$1.3MHuman Services$614kInternational$467kEducation$267kPhilanthropy$175kReligion$101kHealth$79kArts & Culture$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $233k
$5,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$103k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEEDING NEW YORK STATE$75,000
RMHC$57,500
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$50,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$50,000
COMMON THREADS$45,000
GARFIELD PARK CONSERVATORY ALLIANCE$30,000
WORTH TOWNSHIP FOUNDATION$29,000
FORK FARMS FOUNDATION$10,940
SPECIAL OLYMPICS KENTUCKY$10,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION$10,000
KIDS AROUND THE WORLD$10,000
CHILDREN OF RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES$10,000
COLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATION$6,000
ANNE SAXELBY LEGACY FUND$5,000
ED KEATING CENTER$5,000
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, $181k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RDA MILITARY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $1k → 16%MEMORY MATTERS: $250 → 10%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE: $100 → 15%CHILDREN OF RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES: $10k → 8%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORG: $115 → 14%HOSPICE OF DAYTON: $75 → 14%LOST-N-FOUND YOUTH: $10k → 13%LOST AND FOUND YOUTH: $5k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $250 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50 → 14%GLOBAL MIDWEST ALLIANCE: $25k → 14%HANUL FAMILY ALLIANCE: $250 → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $10k → 14%RESPOND NOW: $250 → 14%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%PORT MINISTRIES: $60k → 14%PORT MINISTRIES: $15k → 14%PORT MINISTRIES: $14k → 14%PORT MINISTRIES: $10k → 14%PORT MINISTRIES: $8k → 14%PORT MINISTRIES: $7k → 14%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

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NE
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MD
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NC
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FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 54 repeat orgs$406k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
75

Total granted

$2.8M
$209k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+13%

Still filing today

59%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $197k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthInternationalFood & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TG
    The Global FoodBanking Network
    4× · 2017–2022 · $395k · revenue +47%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $373k · revenue +140%
  • SV
    SOCIAL VENTURES FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $235k · revenue +22% · 96% of their budget

Funded once

  • GM
    GLOBAL MIDWEST ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -94%
  • VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -26%
  • MH
    MANY HOPES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue +422%
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
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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2
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
3
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
4
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
5
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
6
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation

Through philanthropy, empower current and future food and nutrition practitioners to optimize global health.

Health
7
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
8
Feeding Illinois

Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.

Food & Nutrition
9
Patient Access Network Foundation

As a leading charitable foundation and healthcare advocacy organization, the pan foundation is dedicated to accelerating access to treatment for those who need it most and empowering patients on their healthcare journeys. we provide…

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10
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
11
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
12
Harvesters - the Community Food Network

Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. 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

100 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 100 of the 145 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/100
Grantees still filing
62/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Global FoodBanking Network: $395,000 · InternationalThe Global FoodBanking Net…FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $187,164 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN …GLOBAL OPPORTUNITY FUND: $60,000 · InternationalGLOBAL OPPORTUNITY FUND+10 more: $110,332 · International+10 moreRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $335,775 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSERMHC: $115,000 · OtherRMHCCHRIST FOR THE CITY: $73,500 · OtherCHRIST FOR THE CITYCOMMON THREADS: $140,500 · OtherCOMMON THREADSKIDS AROUND THE WORLD INC: $80,000 · OtherKIDS AROUND THE WORLD INC+85 more: $332,141 · Other+85 moreGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $372,952 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOO…ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $79,000 · Food & NutritionATLANTA COMMUNITY F…FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK STATE: $75,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK ASSOCIATI…+8 more: $30,695 · Food & Nutrition+8 moreUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $225,050 · EducationUNIVERSIT…CHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC: $15,000 · EducationCHICAGO C…Purdue Research Foundation: $10,000 · EducationTRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING: $10,000 · Education+4 more: $13,800 · EducationSOCIAL VENTURES FOUNDATION: $235,000 · Community ImprovementThe Port Ministries: $113,321 · Human ServicesGLOBAL MIDWEST ALLIANCE: $25,000 · Human ServicesLost-N-Found Youth Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN OF RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES LTD: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $10,000 · Human Services+11 more: $11,941 · Human ServicesWORTH TOWNSHIP FOUNDATION: $117,775 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Central Florida Inc: $50,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $5,450 · Philanthropy
International$752,496Other$1,076,916Food & Nutrition$557,647Education$273,850Community Improvement$235,000Human Services$185,262Philanthropy$173,225

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Global FoodBanking Network: $395,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $372,952 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURES FOUNDATION: $235,000 over 3y, 96% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $225,050 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $187,164 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON THREADS: $140,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetWORTH TOWNSHIP FOUNDATION: $117,775 over 8y, 67% of budgetThe Port Ministries: $113,321 over 6y, 18% of budgetKIDS AROUND THE WORLD INC: $80,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $79,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK STATE: $75,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGLOBAL OPPORTUNITY FUND: $60,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetUnited Way of Central Florida Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $32,820 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGARFIELD PARK CONSERVATORY ALLIANCE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $25,905 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL MIDWEST ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $23,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMANY HOPES INC: $21,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLost-N-Found Youth Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGOLF FORE AFRICA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOUTREACH INC: $13,602 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPurdue Research Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING MEDINA COUNTY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE OF DUPAGE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetED KEATING CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAROGYA INC DBA AROGYA WORLD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSUSTAINABLE FOOD LABORATORY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $4,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUTUAL GROUND INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC: $4,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $4,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWEST GREYHOUND ADOPTION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetUMPS CARE CHARITIES INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $2,695 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALSIP LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $2,500 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetFEEDING TOMORROW: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE'S IN NFP: $1,200 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Chicago Community…Enterprise Holdings F…AbbVie FoundationJohn D and Catherine …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…United Way of Metropo…Blowitz-Ridgeway Foun…The Service Club of C…Fifth Third Chicagola…Edward Jones Foundati…The Blackbaud Giving …Chubb Charitable Foun…
The Chicago Community TrustIL17.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Foods Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Griffith Foods Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
  • Truckers Against Trafficking: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to The Griffith Foods Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Griffith Foods Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 145 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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