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Grabe Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Grabe Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$337k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$500kAnimals$294kHuman Services$203kEnvironment$98kRecreation & Sports$96kHealth$95kYouth Development$32kArts & Culture$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $198k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIMMER & MAY SCHOOL$100,000
THE KINGSLEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC$25,000
NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INC$25,000
BRIMMER & MAY SCHOOL$25,000
ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC$25,000
OUTWARD BOUND INC$20,000
HILL HOUSE INCORPORATED$20,000
HANDS HELPING PAWS$17,500
LANDMARK SCHOOL INC$15,000
STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC$15,000
CRANE MOUNTAIN VALLEY HORSE RESCUE INC$10,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CT INC$5,886
BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC$5,000
HCD GROUP$3,500
CROSSROADS K9 RESCUE INC$3,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $193k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $20k → 28%HCD GROUP: $4k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $3k → 21%FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC: $5k → 11%HCD GROUP: $2k → 10%HCD GROUP: $2k → 10%HCD GROUP: $2k → 10%HILL HOUSE INCORPORATED: $20k → 16%HILL HOUSE INCORPORATED: $15k → 16%HILL HOUSE INCORPORATED: $15k → 16%HILL HOUSE INCORPORATED: $15k → 16%HILL HOUSE INCORPORATED: $10k → 16%HILL HOUSE INCORPORATED: $10k → 16%ELDERHOUSE INC: $2k → 9%HILL HOUSE INCORPORATED: $10k → 16%STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15k → 9%GHANA CHILDRENS FUND INC: $5k → 9%SIMPLY SMILES INC: $10k → 9%SIMPLY SMILES INC: $10k → 9%SIMPLY SMILES INC: $10k → 9%SIMPLY SMILES INC: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MT
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
CT
CO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 33 repeat orgs$232k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
41

Total granted

$1.1M
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+15%

Still filing today

79%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationAnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BA
    BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL
    3× · 2021–2024 · $155k · revenue +10%
  • TN
    THE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    7× · 2018–2024 · $108k · revenue +33%
  • DZ
    DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $105k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +14%
  • AM
    ADIRONDACK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +12%
  • SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +143%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
3
Naples Zoo Inc

Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…

Animals
4
Connecticut Humane Society

The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.

Animals
5
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment
6
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
7
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
10
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
11
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Canaan Country School Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 81 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/65
Grantees still filing
48/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL: $155,000 · EducationBRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOLTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $107,500 · EducationTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCOR…LANDMARK SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · EducationLANDMARK SCHOOL INCTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $42,500 · EducationTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCMILLBROOK SCHOOL: $21,000 · Education+9 more: $61,000 · Education+9 moreTHE KINGSLEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $72,500 · OtherTHE KINGSLEY MONTESSO…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $25,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANC…CROSSROADS K9 RESCUE INC: $22,000 · OtherCROSSROADS K9 RESCUE …OUTWARD BOUND INC: $20,000 · OtherOUTWARD BOUND INCNATIONAL ANATOLIAN SHEPHERD RESCUE NETWORK: $12,000 · OtherELIZABETH LAKE ANIMAL RESCUE: $12,000 · OtherMERCY CARE FOR THE ADIRONDACKS INC: $10,000 · OtherSOUTHPORT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - UNITED CHURCH OF: $10,000 · OtherCARE COOPERATIVE INC: $10,000 · OtherDOGS ONLY INC: $9,500 · OtherADIRONDACK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Other+16 more: $40,917 · Other+16 moreDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $104,500 · AnimalsDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL…Hands Helping Paws: $65,500 · AnimalsHands Helping PawsCRANE MOUNTAIN VALLEY HORSE RESCUE INC: $38,500 · AnimalsCRANE MOUNTAIN VAL…GREENER DAYS AHEAD RESCUE: $9,000 · Animals+6 more: $13,000 · Animals+6 moreHILL HOUSE INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesHILL HOUSE INCSIMPLY SMILES INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesSIMPLY SMILES I…ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesROOM TO GROW NA…STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesSTERLING HOUSE …HCD Group: $8,500 · Human Services+4 more: $14,500 · Human Services+4 moreTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC: $45,000 · EnvironmentTHE GRAND…FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC: $42,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS O…SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentSANIBEL-C…SAVORY INSTITUTEORG INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentSASCO CREEK NEIGHBORS ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST INC: $5,000 · Environment+2 more: $3,500 · EnvironmentESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educational Foundation: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $7,300 · Arts & CultureBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $5,886 · HealthYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $5,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,500 · Health+2 more: $2,750 · Health
Education$437,000Other$256,417Animals$230,500Human Services$193,000Environment$111,000Arts & Culture$77,300Health$71,136

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL: $155,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $107,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $104,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHILL HOUSE INC: $95,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetTHE KINGSLEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $72,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHands Helping Paws: $65,500 over 6y, 28% of budgetBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLANDMARK SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC: $42,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $42,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIMPLY SMILES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCRANE MOUNTAIN VALLEY HORSE RESCUE INC: $38,500 over 6y, 8.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILLBROOK SCHOOL: $21,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S SCHOOL: $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetADIRONDACK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT MEDSEND: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMERCY CARE FOR THE ADIRONDACKS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetNew York University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENER DAYS AHEAD RESCUE: $9,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetHCD Group: $8,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $5,886 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVORY INSTITUTEORG INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe State College of Florida Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAPI TRAILS - HORSE ADOPTION PROGRAM INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSASCO CREEK NEIGHBORS ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUPPER SARANAC LAKE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGLEN HIGHLAND FARM INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEACHERS PET DOGS AND KIDS LEARNING: $2,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE FREE LIBRARY AND READING ROOM OF ROWAYTON INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGrand Canyon River Guides Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetREHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNQUOWA SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $2,417 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fairfield County's Co…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Grace Jones Richardso…Newman's Own Foundati…Cannupa FoundationCombined Jewish Phila…Ibm International Fou…Boston Foundation IncThe New York Communit…The Bessemer Giving F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Morgan Stanley Global…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT20× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Grace Jones Richardson Testamentary Trust C/O Piedmont Trust Co · Newman's Own Foundation · Cannupa Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Grabe Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grabe Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Rehearsal for Life Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Sterling House Community Center Inc: 8% of income from government
  • The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation: 4% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Friends of the Public Garden Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield Historical Society Dba Fairfield Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Rowayton Arts Center: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 81 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home