Minnesota · Private foundation
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
- 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.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $380k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $360k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $413k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $503k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $367k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $353k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groves Academy | $518,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Accessability Inc | $477,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Augsburg University | $290,000 | 6 | 0% |
| We Can Ride Inc | $175,065 | 6 | 5% |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $135,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Urban Boatbuilders Inc | $81,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Sharing and Caring Hands Inc | $69,734 | 6 | 0% |
| Minnesota Private College Fund | $57,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Fraser | $56,913 | 6 | 0% |
| True Friends | $39,000 | 6 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groves Academy | $518,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Accessability Inc | $477,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Augsburg University | $290,000 | 6 | 0% |
| We Can Ride Inc | $175,065 | 6 | 5% |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $135,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Urban Boatbuilders Inc | $81,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Sharing and Caring Hands Inc | $69,734 | 6 | 0% |
| Minnesota Private College Fund | $57,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Fraser | $56,913 | 6 | 0% |
| True Friends | $39,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Blindness-Learning in New Dimensions Inc | $34,121 | 4 | 1% |
| Reach for Resources Inc | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
| NoticeAbility Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Arc Minnesota Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Laura Baker School Association | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Special Olympics Minnesota Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/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.
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How this is measured
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.
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
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.
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