Rhode Island · Private foundation
Gruben Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $815k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2024
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $175,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 32
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations Gruben Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 31 | $798k | 52% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $745k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $691k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $731k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $811k | 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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island Hospital Foundation | $295,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Rhode Island Hospital | $175,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Family Service of Rhode Island Inc | $165,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lucy's Hearth | $165,000 | 4 | 4% |
| The Norman Bird Sanctuary Trust | $155,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Aquidneck Island Land Trust | $115,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Save the Bay Inc | $112,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Womens Resource Center of Newport and Bristol Counties | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Amos House | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Newport Hospital Foundation | $90,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($997k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gruben Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · The Champlin Foundation · Ejmp Fund for Philanthropy · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Newportfed Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Bazarsky Family Foundation · Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc · The Beacon Foundation
How this is measured
About Gruben Charitable Foundation
- How much does Gruben Charitable Foundation give?
- Gruben Charitable Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $815,001 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Gruben Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (31%), Human Services (12%), Environment (11%).
- Who are Gruben Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Rhode Island Hospital Foundation ($295k), Rhode Island Hospital ($175k), Family Service of Rhode Island Inc ($165k).
- Does Gruben Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gruben Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gruben Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc, The Rhode Island Community Foundation, Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust.
- Where is Gruben Charitable Foundation based?
- Gruben Charitable Foundation is based in RI.
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