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Grube 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.

$465k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$210k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.6MEducation$580kReligion$447kHuman Services$289kHousing & Shelter$99kPhilanthropy$60kYouth Development$19kInternational$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $310k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IU Foundation - Cardiology Fellowship$210,356
Riley Children's Foundation$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Emmanuel Church$40,000
St Vincent Foundation$20,000
Cornea Research Foundation of America$20,000
Habitat for Humanity - National Processing Center$20,000
Lutheran Scholarship Granting Organization of Indiana Inc$15,000
Roncalli High School$10,000
Providence Cristo Rey High School$10,000
Make a Wish of Ohio Kentucky Indiana$10,000
SS Francis & Clare of Assisi Catholic Church Greenwood Inc$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $276k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STRIDES TO SUCCESS: $10k → 5%Lutheran Child and Family Services: $20k → 16%STRIDES TO SUCCESS: $4k → 5%STIDES TO SUCCESS: $3k → 5%Damar Foundation Inc: $5k → 16%JULIAN CENTER: $8k → 16%SERVANTS AT WORK INC: $13k → 16%SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CENTER: $75k → 16%SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CENTER: $60k → 16%SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 16%WHEELER MISSION: $9k → 16%Wheeler Mission: $20k → 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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 24 repeat orgs$272k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
18

Total granted

$3.0M
$252k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+72%

Still filing today

42%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterReligionOther
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

  • SC
    Shepherd Community Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $185k · revenue +119%
  • SV
    ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $163k · revenue +72%
  • HP
    HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $100k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • IF
    IU FOUNDATION - MOVEMENT DISORDER FELLOWSHIP
    one grant, 2019 · $79k
  • SF
    SAINTS FRANCIS AND CLARE CATHOLIC SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • CO
    CAMPUS OUTREACH
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
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
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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2
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
3
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
4
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
5
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
6
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
7
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
8
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
9
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Physicians Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
10
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
11
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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12
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Child and Family Services of in/Ky Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

20 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. 20 of the 43 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
17/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IU Foundation - Cardiology Fellowship: $1,079,367 · OtherIU Foundation - Cardiology FellowshipEmmanuel Church: $204,000 · OtherEmmanuel ChurchIU Foundation - Advance Fellowship: $175,800 · OtherIU Foundation - Advance FellowshipRONCALLI HIGH SCHOOL: $175,000 · OtherRONCALLI HIGH SCHOOLCORNEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $162,500 · OtherCORNEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INCIndividual grant recipient: $145,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRiley Children's Foundation: $84,000 · Other+17 more: $407,182 · Other+17 moreShepherd Community Inc: $185,000 · Human ServicesShepherd …WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $29,000 · Human ServicesWHEELER M…LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF IN/KY INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN …STRIDES TO SUCCESS INC: $16,500 · Human ServicesSTRIDES T…Servants at Work Inc: $12,500 · Human Services+2 more: $12,500 · Human ServicesHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationUniversity of Indianapolis: $75,000 · EducationButler University: $30,000 · EducationROCK STEADY BOXING INC: $10,000 · EducationUniversity of Dayton: $10,000 · EducationST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $162,500 · HealthParkinson Research Foundation Inc: $20,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $10,000 · HealthHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE LUTHERAN SCHOLARSHIP GRANTING ORGANIZATION OF INDIANA INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropySAMARITAN'S PURSE: $12,000 · ReligionBIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,432,849Human Services$275,500Education$225,000Health$192,500Housing & Shelter$50,000Philanthropy$40,000Religion$12,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

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 budgetShepherd Community Inc: $185,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCORNEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $162,500 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $162,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Indianapolis: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LUTHERAN SCHOLARSHIP GRANTING ORGANIZATION OF INDIANA INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetButler University: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $29,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetParkinson Research Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF IN/KY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTRIDES TO SUCCESS INC: $16,500 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetServants at Work Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCK STEADY BOXING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Dayton: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JULIAN CENTER INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDamar Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Shepherd Community Inc ↗
  • Who funds CORNEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Indianapolis ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LUTHERAN SCHOLARSHIP GRANTING ORGANIZATION OF INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds Butler University ↗
  • Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Parkinson Research Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF IN/KY INC ↗
  • Who funds STRIDES TO SUCCESS INC ↗
  • Who funds Servants at Work Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds ROCK STEADY BOXING INC ↗
  • Who funds BIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Dayton ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JULIAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Damar Foundation 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.

Central Indiana Commu…The Indianapolis Foun…Maurer Family Foundat…Richard M Fairbanks F…The Brave Heart Found…Hamilton County Commu…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…United Way of Central…Lilly Endowment IncDuke Energy FoundationNational Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…
Central Indiana Community Foundation IncIN21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Grube Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grube Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Grube Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Grube Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 43 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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