Oregon · Nonprofit
Griffin Center for Inspired Instruction
Griffin Center for Inspired Instruction (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,312 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($80,372). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $827k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $134k
- Net assets
- $481k
What Griffin Center for Inspired Instruction does
Mission
Providing expertise and support to Deaf and Hard of Hearing children and their families to ensure they develop the language, cognition, and social emotional skills needed to achieve in family, in school, and in life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Providing face-to-face and tele support services to 284 children who are deaf or hard of hearing throughout Oregon. More than one third live in rural areas and more than half are from low income homes. Families receive guidance on how to support their childs ongoing development. Families also receive resource materials and chidlrens books.
$549,600 spent$576,724 earned by the program77% of program spendingProviding Educational Audiology services to 59 students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing attending 31 different schools in rural Oregon. Supporting the use of remote microphones in the classroom. Training classroom teachers and teachers of the deaf in device troubleshooting.
$116,500 spent$122,250 earned by the program16% of program spendingMonitoring the statewide implementation of the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention program in Oregon. More than 40,000 screenings were tracked, 800 wree referred for follow up, and 77 were identified with a hearing loss.
$50,873 spent$53,383 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $716,973.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $466k to $702k (+51%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 19% · 2021 11% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of Griffin Center for Inspired Instruction’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Kim Atwill
Executive Director
Board chair
Jay Blanchard
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $21k → $51k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 Griffin Center for Inspired Instruction’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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
Griffin Center for Inspired Instruction leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 Griffin Center for Inspired Instruction.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 50% — 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.
Where its funders are
76% of Griffin Center for Inspired Instruction's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $33k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Oregon funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Griffin Center for Inspired Instruction runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Griffin Center for Inspired Instruction receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $402k on record.
- OTHER DISTRIBUTION TO TAXABLE SUBRECIP$370k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$33k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Griffin Center for Inspired Instruction
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Griffin Center for Inspired Instruction: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Griffin Center for Inspired Instruction?
- Griffin Center for Inspired Instruction (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,312 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($80,372). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Griffin Center for Inspired Instruction have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $134,312 in grants to Griffin Center for Inspired Instruction, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Griffin Center for Inspired Instruction?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,372 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Griffin Center for Inspired Instruction find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 5 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