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Groves Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Groves 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.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
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 2025.

Education$445k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$572k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$5,000
KETTERING UNIVERSITY$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS$5,000
VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$5,000
MCGILL UNIVERSITY$5,000
KETTERING UNIVERSITY$5,000
VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS$5,000
MCGILL UNIVERSITY$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$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.

US giving: 66% of grant dollars ($295k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 34% that went abroad ($150k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: $5k → 14%PHILANDERS SMITH COLLEGE: $10k → 17%FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $5k → 13%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 13%BARRY UNIVERSITY: $5k → 15%KETTERING UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: $5k → 14%PHILANDERS SMITH COLLEGE: $10k → 17%FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $5k → 13%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 13%BARRY UNIVERSITY: $5k → 15%KETTERING UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: $5k → 14%FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $5k → 13%KETTERING UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $5k → 13%KETTERING UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $5k → 13%KETTERING UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%KETTERING UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%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.

Beyond the US: 34% of all-years giving ($150k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Canada$110k · 16 grants
Jamaica$40k · 7 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 18% of Groves Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Groves Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 34% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$370k · 11 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$370k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+6%

Still filing today

36%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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
    MCGILL UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $80k
  • KU
    Kettering University
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue -10%
  • TT
    TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2019–2022 · $40k

Funded once

  • VC
    VALENCIA COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • BU
    BARRY UNIVERSITY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +6%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
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
05the grantee network

6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MCGILL UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · OtherMCGILL UNIVERSITYTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · OtherTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES: $40,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIESUNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICKUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSASUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDAFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · OtherFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYVIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherVALENCIA COLLEGE: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $40,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE …Kettering University: $40,000 · EducationKettering UniversityNova Southeastern University Inc: $30,000 · EducationNova Southeastern University IncPhilander Smith College: $30,000 · EducationPhilander Smith CollegeFLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $20,000 · EducationFLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INCBARRY UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 · EducationBARRY UNIVERSITY INC
Other$275,000Education$170,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKettering University: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPhilander Smith College: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARRY UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 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 THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Kettering University ↗
  • Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
  • Who funds Philander Smith College ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds BARRY UNIVERSITY INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Florida Institute of Technology Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Barry University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
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 16 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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