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The John C Griswold Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$534k
Granted FY2024still arriving
68
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Education$1.3MArts & Culture$1.1MEnvironment$557kHealth$522kHousing & Shelter$285kCommunity Improvement$280kInternational$234kHuman Services$222kOther$0
02FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k52 grants · $174k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $300k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY$60,000
ST HELENA MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC$35,000
DRAGONFLY DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES INC$35,000
POP WARNER LITTLE SCHOLARS INC$30,000
ST HELENA MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC$25,000
CAMERON PARSONS FOUNDATION INC$25,000
SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE$22,500
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$18,000
TONKS FELINE FOSTER$17,079
ALFIES KITTEN RESCUE$15,000
TABOR ACADEMY$15,000
SOUTHPORT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$15,000
VOCAL ARTS ENSEMBLE OF CINCINNATI$15,000
SEVERALL FRIENDS$12,500
VITAL OPERA INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $174k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC: $5k → 12%DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER: $10k → 14%RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC: $1k → 13%ARCHIBALD PROJECT INC: $10k → 13%HOPE COALITION: $13k → 14%HEALTHY CHILD CARE COLORADO: $1k → 12%DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER: $9k → 14%RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC: $500 → 13%ARCHIBALD PROJECT INC: $9k → 13%HOPE COALITION: $13k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER: $8k → 14%RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC: $500 → 13%ARCHIBALD PROJECT INC: $8k → 13%HOPE COALITION: $13k → 14%CIELO PROJECT RADIO RANCH: $3k → 9%DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER: $5k → 14%RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC: $500 → 13%ARCHIBALD PROJECT INC: $5k → 13%CIELO PROJECT RADIO RANCH: $3k → 9%ARCHIBALD PROJECT INC: $1k → 13%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $3k → 10%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $3k → 10%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $3k → 10%MOTHERS MILK BANK AT AUSTIN: $1k → 10%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN: $2k → 10%THE SERENITY PROJECT INC: $900 → 9%PERMAGANIC CO: $10k → 16%PERMAGANIC CO: $5k → 16%SIMPLY SMILES INC: $1k → 9%GREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $20k → 16%GREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.9M · 116 repeat orgs$446k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

116 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 70 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

116
68

Total granted

$4.9M
$343k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+19%

Still filing today

84%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SH
    St Helena Montessori School Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $438k · revenue +85%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED
    6× · 2018–2024 · $149k · revenue +145%
  • HO
    HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
    3× · 2018–2020 · $125k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FRIDA CINEMAgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $39k · revenue +146%
  • WA
    Wetlands and Wildlife Care Centergraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +99%
  • GS
    GOOD SHEPHERD HEALING MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2020 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
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
3
Life On Art

Life on art unites people from diverse communities to co-create handmade large scale interactive art as a platform for social action and healing.

Arts & Culture
4
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

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5
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
6
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals
7
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
8
San Diego Opera Association

Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…

Arts & Culture
9
Union Rescue Mission

Union rescue mission embraces people with the compassion of christ. we assist people experiencing homelessness by providing a comprehensive array of emergency and long-term services to our guests, including: food, shelter, clothing,…

Human Services
10
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
11
The California Wildlife Center

The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…

Health
12
Fresh Approach

The mission of fresh approach is to create long-term change in local food systems by connecting california communities with healthy food from california farmers and expanding knowledge about food and nutrition.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Orange County and the Inland Empire Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dragonfly Development Resources Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and ShelterVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Environmental Conservation …Cancer Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Local Food System Organizat…Youth Sports ProgramsSchool Parent OrganizationsAddiction Recovery ServicesYmca Youth DevelopmentPregnancy Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesSchool District FoundationsPublic Library OperationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Policy Research and AdvocacyChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Equine Therapy ProgramsYouth Development ServicesDevelopmental Disabilities …Christian Missionary Organi…Elementary Literacy TutoringOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community FoundationsCommunity Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%21%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/194
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,371

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.

04the grantee network

178 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. 178 of the 202 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
169/178
Grantees still filing
107/178
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

St Helena Montessori School Inc — $438,395 · OtherSt Helena Montessori School IncSOUTHPORT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - UNITED CHURCH OF — $134,000 · OtherSOUTHPORT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - UNITED CH…CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED — $148,500 · OtherCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED+102 more — $1,316,063 · Other+102 moreVOCAL ARTS ENSEMBLE — $237,000 · Arts & CultureVOCAL ARTS ENSEMBLEHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $125,000 · Arts & CultureHEART OF AMERICA SHA…SECRET LAND ARP — $115,367 · Arts & CultureSECRET LAND ARPNIMBUS ARTS — $90,000 · Arts & CultureNIMBUS ARTSCHORUS AMERICA — $56,000 · Arts & CultureCHORUS AMERICAGREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $42,000 · Arts & CultureSEVERALL FRIENDS — $39,429 · Arts & CultureLunchtime Productions Inc — $39,236 · Arts & CultureTHE FRIDA CINEMA — $39,200 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY ACTORS THEATRE INC — $37,500 · Arts & Culture+15 more — $158,429 · Arts & Culture+15 moreMILLIKIN UNIVERSITY — $516,691 · EducationMILLIKIN UNIVERSIT…Direct Connections To Africa — $179,836 · EducationDirect Connections…READWORKSINC — $67,500 · EducationREADWORKSINCSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $49,095 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUN…+10 more — $69,000 · Education+10 moreDRAGONFLY DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES INC — $277,508 · PhilanthropyAIDS SERVICE FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $47,000 · Philanthropy+7 more — $32,500 · PhilanthropyCINCINNATI PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE — $105,000 · EnvironmentOC HABITATS — $95,000 · EnvironmentBOLSA CHICA CONSERVANCY — $78,000 · EnvironmentHUNTINGTON BEACH WETLANDS CONSERVANCY — $40,000 · EnvironmentThe Ocean Foundation — $37,300 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL — $15,000 · Environment+3 more — $29,500 · EnvironmentProspect House Inc — $136,000 · HealthTHE EQUUS EFFECT INC — $48,288 · HealthINSPIREINC — $43,067 · HealthMETRO DETROIT SHARE GROUP — $35,000 · HealthRECLAIMED HOPE INITIATIVE — $34,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC — $30,000 · Health+14 more — $72,250 · HealthHOPE COALITION INC — $37,500 · Human ServicesThe Archibald Project Inc — $32,000 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER — $31,500 · Human ServicesGREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS — $29,737 · Human ServicesMany Mothers Inc — $23,000 · Human ServicesPERMAGANIC CO EBNER — $15,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN — $11,713 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesIF I NEED HELP — $10,000 · Human Services+8 more — $20,400 · Human Services
Other$2,036,958Arts & Culture$979,161Education$882,122Philanthropy$407,008Environment$399,800Health$398,605Human Services$220,850

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMILLIKIN UNIVERSITY — $516,691 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSt Helena Montessori School Inc — $438,395 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetDRAGONFLY DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES INC — $277,508 over 7y, 73% of budgetVOCAL ARTS ENSEMBLE — $237,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetDirect Connections To Africa — $179,836 over 6y, 24% of budgetCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED — $148,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetProspect House Inc — $136,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $125,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetSECRET LAND ARP — $115,367 over 4y, 100% of budgetCINCINNATI PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE — $105,000 over 4y, 40% of budgetOC HABITATS — $95,000 over 6y, 42% of budgetNIMBUS ARTS — $90,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetBOLSA CHICA CONSERVANCY — $78,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetSANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE — $67,500 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetREADWORKSINC — $67,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCHORUS AMERICA — $56,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetJOBONE — $50,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPOWELL GARDENS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAIDS SERVICE FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $50,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $49,095 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EQUUS EFFECT INC — $48,288 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $47,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $42,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBUYAMBA INC — $40,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHUNTINGTON BEACH WETLANDS CONSERVANCY — $40,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetSEVERALL FRIENDS — $39,429 over 3y, 19% of budgetLunchtime Productions Inc — $39,236 over 5y, 16% of budgetTHE FRIDA CINEMA — $39,200 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetRESTART INC — $37,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKANSAS CITY ACTORS THEATRE INC — $37,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetHOPE COALITION INC — $37,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation — $37,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PHOENIX ASSOCIATION INC — $37,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetNORTHERN NEW MEXICO RADIO FOUNDATION — $36,834 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO — $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTIKKUN FARM INC — $35,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetMETRO DETROIT SHARE GROUP — $35,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetRECLAIMED HOPE INITIATIVE — $34,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetThe Archibald Project Inc — $32,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER — $31,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS — $29,737 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetTONKS FELINE FOSTER — $27,829 over 3y, 17% of budgetWetlands and Wildlife Care Center — $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCameron Parsons Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetLINTON INCORPORATED — $25,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetFISHER HOUSE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $24,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMany Mothers Inc — $23,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budget
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 MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds St Helena Montessori School Inc ↗
  • Who funds DRAGONFLY DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds VOCAL ARTS ENSEMBLE ↗
  • Who funds Direct Connections To Africa ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED ↗
  • Who funds Prospect House Inc ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds SECRET LAND ARP ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds OC HABITATS ↗
  • Who funds NIMBUS ARTS ↗
  • Who funds BOLSA CHICA CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds READWORKSINC ↗
  • Who funds CHORUS AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds JOBONE ↗
  • Who funds POWELL GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds AIDS SERVICE FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE EQUUS EFFECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INSPIREINC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BUYAMBA INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNTINGTON BEACH WETLANDS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds SEVERALL FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds Lunchtime Productions Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIDA CINEMA ↗
  • Who funds RESTART INC ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY ACTORS THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Ocean Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE PHOENIX ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN NEW MEXICO RADIO FOUNDATION ↗

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

The Greater Cincinnat…Santa Fe Community Fo…Charitable Foundation…Carol Ann and Ralph V…The H & R Block Found…Greater Kansas City C…Miller Nichols Charit…E Kemper Carter & Ann…Orange County Communi…The Wohlgemuth Hersch…Employees Community F…Earl B & Loraine H Mi…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH20× affinity14 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Charitable Foundation USA · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation · E Kemper Carter & Anna Curry Carter Community · Orange County Community Foundation · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Employees Community Fund of Boeing California Inc · Earl B & Loraine H Miller 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 John C Griswold 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
  • The Equus Effect Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Mid Fairfield Aids Project — 10% of income from government
  • Klein Memorial Auditorium Foundationinc — 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Riverbrook Regional Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
37report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The John C Griswold Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The John C Griswold Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 202 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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