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Groves Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$380k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 18
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$8.8M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Groves Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$380k7%
FY202414$360k0%
FY202316$413k19%
FY202215$503k27%
FY202114$367k14%
FY202018$353kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$865kHealth$455kEmployment$397kYouth Development$111kHuman Services$77kScience & Tech$40kRecreation & Sports$34kArts & Culture$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Groves Academy$518,00061%
Accessability Inc$477,00062%
Augsburg University$290,00060%
We Can Ride Inc$175,06565%
University of Minnesota Foundation$135,00040%
Urban Boatbuilders Inc$81,50062%
Sharing and Caring Hands Inc$69,73460%
Minnesota Private College Fund$57,00061%
Fraser$56,91360%
True Friends$39,00060%
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All grantees of Groves Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Groves Academy$518,00061%
Accessability Inc$477,00062%
Augsburg University$290,00060%
We Can Ride Inc$175,06565%
University of Minnesota Foundation$135,00040%
Urban Boatbuilders Inc$81,50062%
Sharing and Caring Hands Inc$69,73460%
Minnesota Private College Fund$57,00061%
Fraser$56,91360%
True Friends$39,00060%
Blindness-Learning in New Dimensions Inc$34,12141%
Reach for Resources Inc$22,50050%
NoticeAbility Inc$10,00012%
The Arc Minnesota Inc$5,00010%
Laura Baker School Association$5,00020%
Special Olympics Minnesota Inc$2,5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($397k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Groves Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGroves Academy: $518,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetAccessability Inc: $477,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetAugsburg University: $290,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWe Can Ride Inc: $175,065 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetUniversity of Minnesota Foundation: $135,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Boatbuilders Inc: $81,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetSharing and Caring Hands Inc: $69,734 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMinnesota Private College Fund: $57,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetFraser: $56,913 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTrue Friends: $39,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBlindness-Learning in New Dimensions Inc: $34,121 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetReach for Resources Inc: $22,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNoticeAbility Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Arc Minnesota Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLaura Baker School Association: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Otto Bremer TrustMN23.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The K Foundation

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.

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About Groves Foundation

How much does Groves Foundation give?
Groves Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $379,675 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Groves Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Health (23%), Employment (20%).
Who are Groves Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Groves Academy ($518k), Accessability Inc ($477k), Augsburg University ($290k).
Does Groves Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Groves Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Groves Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.
Where is Groves Foundation based?
Groves Foundation is based in MN.

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 28 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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