· Private foundation
The Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
- $250k+1 grant · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RRROME RESCUE MISSION INC3× · 2019–2021 · $35k · revenue +189%
- CPCLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC2× · 2019–2020 · $23k · revenue +73%
- RAROME ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION LTD2× · 2020–2021 · $18k · revenue +196%
Funded once
- TVTHE VARFLEX EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IIone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -96% · 48% of their budget
- RCROME CAPITOL THEATERone grant, 2020 · $15k
- MHMVCOVID-19 HERKIMER ONEIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
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…
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.
To serve the crisis management, information and referral needs of america's veterans and their families.
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.
To provide guidelines and certification for those hospitals and surgeons who practice surgery.
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…
Public and medical education and research
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.
The foundation supports the religious, health, and charitable activities of st. francis medical center. the foundation is a supporting organization of sfmc.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and 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.
22 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. 22 of the 40 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VARFLEX EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION II ↗
- Who funds ROME RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds ROME ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION LTD ↗
- Who funds ROME MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JESS PARRISH MEDICAL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds Rome Cemetery Association ↗
- Who funds ONEIDA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NRA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOHAWK VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LABOR RELATIONS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FIBONACCI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SPCA of North Brevard Inc ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE CARING PARTNERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WALK-ABOUT-MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL OF ROME NY INC ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
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 Shirley W & William L Griffin Charitable 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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