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The Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.1M
Granted FY2021
6
Grants FY2021
6
Organizations funded FY2021
33%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$4,004,069
Organizations funded a year
6 to 26
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
2
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 33% of the organizations The Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 99% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
PhilanthropyEducationHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20216$4.1M33%
FY202010$242k60%
FY20199$41k67%
FY201826$34k0%
FY201726$34kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Philanthropy$4.1MEducation$126kHuman Services$69kHealth$44kReligion$40kHousing & Shelter$35kArts & Culture$15kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 22 grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($179k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Griffin Charitable Foundation Inc: $4,004,069 over 1y, 84% of budgetThe Varflex Educational Foundation II: $100,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetRome Rescue Mission Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetClear Path for Veterans Inc: $22,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRome Alliance for Education Ltd: $17,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetRome Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRome Cemetery Association: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetJess Parrish Medical Foundationinc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOneida Healthcare Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNRA Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMohawk Valley Health System Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Foundation of America Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProject Fibonacci Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA of North Brevard Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSenior Citizens Council of Rome Ny Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUpstate Caring Partners Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

Dorothy G Griffin Charitable FoundationNY22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dorothy G Griffin Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc · Sears Family Foundation of Rome Ny · The Griffin Charitable Foundation Inc · Hazen B Hinman Sr Foundation Inc · Rome Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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How do I get to The Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable Foundation?

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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.

About The Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable Foundation

How much does The Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable Foundation give?
The Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $4,051,569 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does The Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Philanthropy (92%), Education (3%), Human Services (2%).
Who are The Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: The Griffin Charitable Foundation Inc ($4.0M), The Varflex Educational Foundation II ($100k), Rome Rescue Mission Inc ($35k).
Does The Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dorothy G Griffin Charitable Foundation, The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc, Sears Family Foundation of Rome Ny.
Where is The Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable Foundation based?
The Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable Foundation is based in NY.

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 40 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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