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Grover Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$172k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$342kHealth$100kInternational$73kFood & Nutrition$73kYouth Development$57kArts & Culture$33kHuman Services$26kScience & Tech$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $115k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%What If Foundation: $10k → 10%Loaves and Fishes Community Services: $1k → 6%What If Foundation: $10k → 10%What If Foundation: $10k → 10%WHAT IF FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%What If Foundation: $10k → 10%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

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
IN
NJ
CA
CO
VA
DC
AL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$679k · 39 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
37

Total granted

$679k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+51%

Still filing today

49%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalReligionOther
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

  • MU
    Marquette University
    6× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +24%
  • WI
    What If Foundation
    5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +50%
  • CAMP EVERGREEN CORPORATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • SM
    St Mary's at Notre Dame
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • CC
    Chicago Charter School
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

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…

Health
2
Wheaton College

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…

Education
3
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
4
Lake Superior Community Health Center

To improve access to quality health care for all.

Health
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
6
Sonoran University of Health Sciences

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…

—
7
St John Fisher University

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.

Education
8
Robert a Toigo Foundation

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.

Education
9
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

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.

—
10
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

—
11
Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal
12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheboygan Senior Community Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 88 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
24/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAMP EVERGREEN CORPORATION INC: $46,000 · OtherCAMP EVERGREEN CORPORATION INCRotary Making Spirits Bright: $40,000 · OtherRotary Making Spirits BrightRCS: $38,000 · OtherRCSFresh Meals on Wheels: $35,000 · OtherFresh Meals on WheelsABOVE AND BEYOND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $27,000 · OtherABOVE AND BEYOND CHILDREN'S MUSEUMPSC PARTNERS SEEKING A CURE: $15,000 · Other+58 more: $183,475 · Other+58 moreMarquette University: $155,000 · EducationMarquette UniversityLAKELAND UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · EducationLAKELAND UNIVERSITYKOHLER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationKOHLER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCThe University of Chicago Charter School Corporation: $20,000 · EducationThe University of Chicago Charter Scho…University of Chicago: $11,100 · Education+2 more: $4,500 · EducationWhat If Foundation: $50,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesDEMENTIA INNOVATIONS INC: $20,000 · HealthSHEBOYGAN SENIOR COMMUNITY INC: $10,000 · HealthREINS INC: $8,820 · HealthSHARON S RICHARDSON COMMUNITY HOSPICE INC: $5,000 · Health+3 more: $3,000 · HealthMAKING SPIRITS BRIGHT INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureCOMMON HOPE: $12,060 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $8,500 · InternationalSHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $8,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$384,475Education$275,600Human Services$53,000Health$46,820Arts & Culture$21,500International$20,560Food & Nutrition$8,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarquette University: $155,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLAKELAND UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWhat If Foundation: $50,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCAMP EVERGREEN CORPORATION INC: $46,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetKOHLER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetMAKING SPIRITS BRIGHT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetThe University of Chicago Charter School Corporation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDEMENTIA INNOVATIONS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPSC PARTNERS SEEKING A CURE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMON HOPE: $12,060 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $11,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHEBOYGAN SENIOR COMMUNITY INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREINS INC: $8,820 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC: $8,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF STEVENS POINT: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSHARON S RICHARDSON COMMUNITY HOSPICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT TRUST: $4,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBOOKWORM GARDENS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAMP FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSheboygan County Warming Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABORTION CARE NETWORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEHLERS-DANLOS SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATER FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREEHOUSE THEATER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEAD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $125 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.

  • 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 MAKING SPIRITS BRIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation ↗
  • 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 THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Randall J & Judith F …Frank G & Frieda K Br…Lakeshore Community F…Kohler Foundation IncRuth St John & John D…The Zieve FoundationFk Bemis Family Found…Baird Foundation IncGreen Bay Packers Fou…Alliant Energy Founda…Hugh & Ruth V Ross Ch…Terry Kohler Family F…
Randall J & Judith F Hake Family Foundation IncWI30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 88 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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