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The Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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
2
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2021 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
  • $250k+1 grant · $4.0M
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDTION INC$4,004,069
ROME RESCUE MISSION$15,000
PORT ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL$10,000
SALVATION ARMY 0F ROME NY$10,000
ROME ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION LTD$7,500
ROME WESLEYAN CHURCH - BREAD OF LIFE COMMUNITY 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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS: $13k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS: $10k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%SENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL OF ROME NY INC: $500 → 16%SENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL OF ROME NY INC: $500 → 16%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.

6%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$258k · 32 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2021, 28 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
6

Total granted

$258k
$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+83%

Still filing today

50%
67%

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%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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

  • RR
    ROME RESCUE MISSION INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $35k · revenue +189%
  • CP
    CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $23k · revenue +98%
  • RA
    ROME ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION LTD
    2× · 2020–2021 · $18k · revenue +196%

Funded once

  • TV
    THE VARFLEX EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION II
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -100% · 48% of their budget
  • RC
    ROME CAPITOL THEATER
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • RC
    Rome Cemetery Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +83%
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
St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
2
St Francis Foundation

We, st. francis foundation and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.st. francis foundation is a member of st. francis healthcare and trinity…

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3
Rochester General Health System

Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.

Health
4
National Veterans Foundation Inc

To serve the crisis management, information and referral needs of america's veterans and their families.

—
5
St Joseph's Medical Pc

We, st. joseph's medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's medical is a member of st. joseph's health and trinity health.

Health
6
Surgical Review Corporation

To provide guidelines and certification for those hospitals and surgeons who practice surgery.

Health
7
Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation

Society of interventional radiology foundation (the foundation) is a scientific foundation dedicated to fostering research in interventional radiology for the purposes of advancing scientific knowledge, increasing the number of skilled…

Health
8
The Skin Cancer Foundation Inc

Public and medical education and research

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9
St Francis Research & Educational Corporation Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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10
St Francis Medical Center Foundation Inc

The foundation supports the religious, health, and charitable activities of st. francis medical center. the foundation is a supporting organization of sfmc.

—
11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
St Peter's Hospital Foundation Inc

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. peter's hospital foundation is a member of st. peter's health…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Griffin Charitable Foundation Inc. 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

22 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. 22 of the 40 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $4,004,069 · PhilanthropyTHE GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $100,000 · PhilanthropyROME VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $42,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMY 0F ROME NY: $40,000 · OtherROME WESLEYAN CHURCH - BREAD OF LIFE COMMUNITY CENTER: $26,500 · OtherROME CAPITOL THEATER: $15,000 · OtherST PAUL'S CHURCH ROME NY: $10,000 · OtherPORT ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL: $10,000 · OtherJERVIS PUBLIC LIBRARY: $7,000 · Other+18 more: $48,000 · OtherROME RESCUE MISSION INC: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterCLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC: $22,500 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL OF ROME NY INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesROME ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION LTD: $17,500 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationJESS PARRISH MEDICAL FOUNDATIONINC: $5,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,000 · HealthMOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,000 · HealthUPSTATE CARING PARTNERS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · HealthNRA FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Crime & Legal
Philanthropy$4,104,069Other$199,000Housing & Shelter$35,000Human Services$24,500Education$18,500Health$16,500Crime & Legal$3,000

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 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
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.

Dorothy G Griffin Cha…The Community Foundat…Sears Family Foundati…The Griffin Charitabl…Hazen B Hinman Sr Fou…Rome Community Founda…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

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

Find your warmest path to The Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable 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 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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