Griffin Foundation
EIN 36-4780993 · files IRS 990-PF
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 142 grants · $409.2k
Who it funds most
12 of its 23 grantees were funded in more than one year.
Griffin Foundation's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 23 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2023, filing 202431289349102243
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
A year with no bar has no grants on file yet: its returns may not be loaded. It is not a year without giving.
Its returns8 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | IRS 990-PF | 202631199349101128 | IRS batch file |
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202511419349100701 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202431289349102243 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202331319349101503 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS 990-PF | 202212159349100201 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS 990-PF | 202121679349100957 | IRS batch file |
| 2019 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202041639349100304 | IRS batch file |
| 2018 | IRS 990-PF | 201901569349100850 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Griffin Foundation made 206 grants across 2018–2025, totalling $611.6k as filed.
- Grants
- 206
- Total, as filed
- $611.6k
- Years
- 2018–2025
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CATAWBA VALLEY | 4 | $67.0k |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | 5 | $56.0k |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - CATAWBA VALLEY | 2 | $30.0k |
| FAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY | 5 | $27.5k |
| SAFE HARBOR RESCUE MISSION | 6 | $18.0k |
| HICKORY SOUP KITCHEN | 7 | $17.0k |
| LENOIR RHYNE UNIVERSITY | 7 | $16.5k |
| EXODUS HOMES | 4 | $16.0k |
| UMCOR UMC | 5 | $15.0k |
| GREATER HICKORY COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY | 5 | $14.0k |
| HART SQUARE FOUNDATION | 5 | $14.0k |
| SALVATION ARMY OF GREATER HICKORY | 5 | $14.0k |
| UNITED ARTS COUNCIL | 3 | $14.0k |
| ZOE | 2 | $13.9k |
| ZOE MINISTRY | 2 | $12.6k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 28 | $57.4k |
| 2020 | 20 | $65.1k |
| 2021 | 30 | $71.4k |
| 2022 | 31 | $84.5k |
| 2023 | 33 | $71.8k |
| 2024 | 33 | $129.5k |
| 2025 | 31 | $132.0k |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-364780993. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified