New York · Nonprofit
GRIFFISS INSTITUTE INC
GRIFFISS INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,593 to it, the largest being NEW YORK STATE TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISE CORPORATION ($86,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GRIFFISS INSTITUTE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 149 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 149 science & tech nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Rome Community Foundationshared funderslocal
- Renaissance Philanthropy Fundportfolio match
- Electric Power Research Institute Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% · 2024 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of GRIFFISS INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $50k → $20k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 GRIFFISS INSTITUTE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
GRIFFISS INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 GRIFFISS INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 68% · 2022 97% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of GRIFFISS INSTITUTE INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Rome Community Foundationshared funderslocalNY · backs 25 organizations that share your funders · funds 46 organizations near you
- Renaissance Philanthropy Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Electric Power Research Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lemelson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cognizant US Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Infosys Foundation USAportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Breakthrough Energy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atlas Economic Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Seminar Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding GRIFFISS INSTITUTE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $188.3M on record — $188.3M federal, $112 state.
- Department of Defense$185.3M
- Department of Commerce$3.0M
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $112
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 GRIFFISS INSTITUTE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cyber Research Institute Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GRIFFISS INSTITUTE INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GRIFFISS INSTITUTE INC?
- GRIFFISS INSTITUTE INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,593 to it, the largest being NEW YORK STATE TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISE CORPORATION ($86,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRIFFISS INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $122,593 in grants to GRIFFISS INSTITUTE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRIFFISS INSTITUTE INC?
- NEW YORK STATE TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISE CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $86,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRIFFISS INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing