Massachusetts · Nonprofit
COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,518,765 to it, the largest being THEE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION ($1,352,050). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.5M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Corey C Griffin Charitable Foundation does
Mission
Following corey's tragic passing on august 16th, 2014, the griffin family and close friends founded the corey c. Griffin charitable foundation.given his incredible passion for life and uncommon dedication to philanthropy, it was not difficult to map out the guiding principle of the foundation: improving the lives of primarily boston-area children through strategic partnerships with the city's leading educational and healthcare institutions, with an emphasis on faith-based initiatives. We believe that every child should have the opportunity to succeed, irrespective of their financial or health circumstances.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
"corey's kids" refers to the children the corey c. Griffin foundation can positively impact through its pillars of financial, human, social, and physical capital. The term was established as one of endearment upon corey's tragic passing. Corey's kids includes those that benefit from corey's kids christmas, the annual back to school drive, through boston children's hospital initiatives, and those that benefit from the various other grants. "corey's kids" refer to any child or youth benefiting from the assistance. The organization makes grants to 11 strategic partners with a focus on education, leadership, character development, physical and mental health. The partners that the organization grants to are ron burton training village, boston children's hospital, franciscan children's hospital, lawrence catholic academy, campaign for catholic schools, my brother's keeper, boston pal, children's advocacy center of suffolk county, grow, mamleo and the achieve program at nobles. Additionally, the foundation supports programs through other nonprofits as well. For 2025, the grants to other organizations totaled $1,590,485. During corey's kids christmas, the organization purchased laptops,…
$2,407,249 spentof which $2,063,021 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,407,249.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $20M to $26M (+28%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
50% of COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Joseph Zink
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.1M.
13 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
61% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 58% · 2019 43% · 2020 51% · 2021 45% · 2022 23% · 2023 24% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
55% of COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
78% of COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
- COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,518,765 to it, the largest being THEE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION ($1,352,050). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $6,518,765 in grants to COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
- THEE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,352,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 34 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing