· Private foundation
Verna M Griffee Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY | $13,150 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $10,750 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY ZANESVILLE | $6,200 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $4,150 |
| BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,650 |
| OTTERBEIN UNIVERSITY | $2,250 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,250 |
| PENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE | $2,250 |
| MOUNT VERNON NAZARENE UNIVERSITY | $2,250 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $2,250 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $2,250 |
| HOCKING TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $1,900 |
| WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE | $1,900 |
| MARIETTA COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| MARSHALL UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
132 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 110 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
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
- MCMarietta College4× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +15%
- HPHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +45%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE3× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- ZSZANES STATE COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $6k
- YSYOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +34%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Muskingum University and the most unlike its peers is Pensacola Christian College Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 74 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
33 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. 33 of the 280 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
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
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 MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Marietta College ↗
- Who funds Mount Vernon Nazarene University ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Otterbein University ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The University of Findlay ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Huntington University ↗
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: Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust · Columbus Foundation · Ella Weiss Educational Fund · The Paul and Carol David Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · Community Foundations Inc · Premier Bank Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Hoover Foundation Income Account · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor 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 Verna M Griffee Trust 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.
- Eckerd College — 0% of income from government
- Pensacola Christian College 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.