· Private foundation
Groves Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AccessAbility Inc | $75,000 |
| Groves Academy (GLO) | $75,000 |
| Shriners Childrens - Twin Cities | $50,000 |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $40,000 |
| We Can Ride Inc | $25,000 |
| Urban Boat Builders | $15,000 |
| Augsburg University | $15,000 |
| Irondale - FRC Team 2052 | $10,000 |
| We Can Ride Inc | $10,000 |
| Fraser | $10,000 |
| Minnesota Private College Fund | $10,000 |
| Sharing and Caring Hands Inc | $10,000 |
| Shriners Childrens - Twin Cities | $6,000 |
| Groves Learning Organization | $5,000 |
| True Friends | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GAGROVES ACADEMY6× · 2020–2025 · $518k · revenue +36%
- AIACCESSABILITY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $477k · revenue +52%
- AUAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $290k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- SHShriners Healthcare For Children - TCone grant, 2020 · $50k
- UOUniversity of Minnesotaone grant, 2020 · $30k
- SHShriners Hospital for Children - Twin Citiesone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
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.
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Training and day services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
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Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Abilitypath housing advances affordable, accessible housing projects that promote independence and inclusive communities for adults with developmental disabilities. through partnerships and innovative program designs, abilitypath housing…
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Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
We see and honor the personhood and autonomy of autistic and neurodivergent individuals. we work every day to educate and guide micc participants in creating and sustaining the lives they want to live.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 GROVES ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ACCESSABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WE CAN RIDE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN BOATBUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds FRASER ↗
- Who funds TRUE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds BLINDNESS-LEARNING IN NEW DIMENSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds REACH FOR RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds NoticeAbility Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARC MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds LAURA BAKER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Groves Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Groves Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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