· Private foundation
Grover Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| CAMP EVERGREEN | $10,000 |
| MAKING SPIRITS BRIGHT | $10,000 |
| ABOVE AND BEYOND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LAKELAND UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| DEMENTIA INNOVATIONS | $10,000 |
| STEFANIE WEILL CENTER | $10,000 |
| SPEF - KRISTIN STAGAKIS SCHOLARSHIP | $10,000 |
| WHAT IF FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SHEBOYGAN ROTARY FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,000 |
| SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
39 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MUMarquette University6× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +24%
- WIWhat If Foundation5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +50%
CAMP EVERGREEN CORPORATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- CCChicago Charter Schoolone grant, 2024 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
To improve access to quality health care for all.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Sonoran university of health sciences shapes a healthier future by supporting students as they train to excel as healthcare professionals, by enhancing the health and wellbeing of our patients and communities, and by discovering effective…
St. john fisher university fosters a collaborative and inclusive community where students grow into purposeful leaders through a transformational educational experience rooted in our catholic heritage and guided by our basilian tradition.
Our mission is to shape the future of finance by developing leaders whose innovation, investment excellence, and human-centered leadership advance the industry and its adjacent sectors.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
Education and Research
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheboygan Senior Community Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marquette University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 88 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds What If Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAMP EVERGREEN CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds KOHLER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation ↗
- Who funds MAKING SPIRITS BRIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds DEMENTIA INNOVATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PSC PARTNERS SEEKING A CURE ↗
- Who funds COMMON HOPE ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN SENIOR COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds REINS INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF STEVENS POINT ↗
- Who funds SHARON S RICHARDSON COMMUNITY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT TRUST ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Randall J & Judith F Hake Family Foundation Inc · Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc · Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc · Kohler Foundation Inc · Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc · The Zieve Foundation · Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Hugh & Ruth V Ross Charitable Fund Inc · Terry Kohler Family Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Grover Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.