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The Griffith Foundation at a glance

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The Griffith 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.

$355k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$250kEducation$206kHealth$190kReligion$135kHuman Services$100kArts & Culture$75k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $180k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC$75,000
ALS ASSOCIATION GREATER NEW YORK$55,000
JAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM$50,000
THE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC$25,000
NATURE SACRED$25,000
WASHINGTON COLLEGE - CES$25,000
QUEEN ANNE'S CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$25,000
ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$25,000
HMS SCHOOL$20,000
COMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE$20,000
ST JAMES SCHOOL$10,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%JAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM: $50k → 6%LAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $100k → 11%HMS SCHOOL: $20k → 22%ALS ASSOCIATION GREATER NEW YORK: $55k → 17%PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL: $500 → 11%SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER: $25k → 11%THE CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION: $100k → 6%ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $100k → 7%YMCA OF THE CHESAPEAKE: $50k → 10%ST JAMES SCHOOL: $10k → 12%WASHINGTON COLLEGE - CES: $25k → 12%LAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $25k → 11%EPISCOPAL COMMUNTIY SERVICES: $10k → 22%ALS ASSOCIATION GREATER NEW YORK: $50k → 17%CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 6%THE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC: $25k → 7%YMCA OF THE CHESAPEAKE: $50k → 10%ALS ASSOCIATION GREATER NEW YORK: $40k → 17%NATURE SACRED: $25k → 6%QUEEN ANNE'S CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $25k → 7%ALS ASSOCIATION GREATER NEW YORK: $25k → 17%QUEEN ANNE'S CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $25k → 7%ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $25k → 7%COMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE: $20k → 7%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.
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$745k · 6 repeat orgs$211k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$745k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+63%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue -6%
  • AA
    ALS ASSOCIATION GREATER NEW YORK
    4× · 2020–2025 · $170k
  • SP
    ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    2× · 2020–2025 · $125k

Funded once

  • SV
    SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617graduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +63%
  • EC
    EPISCOPAL COMMUNTIY SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue -12%
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
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
2
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
5
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
6
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
7
Hampshire Country School

Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…

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8
Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc

Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.

Education
9
Asbury College

Asbury university equips students, through academic excellence and spiritual vitality, for lifelong learning, leadership, and service to the professions, society, the family and the church, preparing them to engage their cultures and…

Education
10
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
11
Fortissimo

The mission of cornish college of the arts is to provide students aspiring to become practicing artists with aneducational program of the highest possible quality, in an environment, that nurtures creativity and intellectualcuriosity,…

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12
William James College Inc

William james college strives to be a preeminent college of psychology that integrates rigorous academic instruction with extensive field education and close attention to professional development. we assume an ongoing social responsibility…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Princeton Day School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Nature Sacred. 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

11 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. 11 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALS ASSOCIATION GREATER NEW YORK: $170,000 · OtherALS ASSOCIATION GREATER NEW YORKST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $125,000 · OtherST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $100,000 · OtherYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INCQUEEN ANNES CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION IN: $50,000 · OtherQUEEN ANNES CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INWASHINGTON COLLEGE - CES: $25,000 · OtherTHE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · OtherHMS SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherCOMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE INC: $20,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUND…LAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $125,000 · EducationLAFAYETTE COLLEG…SAINT JAMES SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationSAINT JAMES SCHO…+1 more: $500 · EducationJAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617: $25,000 · Arts & CultureNATURE SACRED: $25,000 · Philanthropy
Other$545,000Environment$175,000Education$135,500Arts & Culture$75,000Philanthropy$25,000

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 budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetQUEEN ANNES CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION IN: $50,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetSOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAINT JAMES SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC: $500 over 1y, 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.

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 Bessemer Giving F…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bessemer Giving FundNJ14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Griffith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 16 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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