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John Griffin’s Foundation Invests in a Cryptocurrency Firm and Crypto Derivatives HFT Platform

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Hedge fund managers like John Griffin, founder of Blue Ridge Capital, often give lots of money to charity, with many creating their own foundations to do it. We can gain some interesting insight into where managers like Griffin are investing by looking at their foundations’ public filings. In Griffin’s case, it looks like he’s interested in crypto.

According to its 990-PF for 2024, which was filed in August 2025, the John & Amy Griffin Foundation had $27.1 million assets at the end of the fiscal year. John Griffin himself contributed more than $4.8 million to the foundation in 2024, including lots of Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) shares, although he also contributed some shares of Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META), Clear Secure (NYSE:YOU) and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN).

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.