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Gruber Family Foundation

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.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$990kPhilanthropy$450kHealth$230kCivil Rights$87kReligion$66kFood & Nutrition$43kHousing & Shelter$31kHuman Services$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$327k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PATH TO COLLEGE$20,000
CONGREGATION SHAAREI TEFILLAH$10,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$1,800
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $5k → 11%THE HARBOUR: $500 → 14%WE CAN: $3k → 8%JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE: $5k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE: $5k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE: $5k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE: $5k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE: $5k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 19 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
10

Total granted

$1.5M
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+79%

Still filing today

58%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 ServicesEducationHealthCrime & LegalArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $500k · revenue +158%
  • EMERSON COLLEGE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $70k · revenue +48%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    6× · 2018–2024 · $52k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $19k
  • TW
    THE WALDEN WOODS PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +236%
  • AD
    ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    one grant, 2017 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
2
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

4
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
9
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
10
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
11
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
12
Hebrew Seniorlife Hospice Care Inc

The mission of hsl hospice is to provide exceptional care to terminally ill patients and their families allowing patients to attain the highest quality of life possible. hsl hospice aims to provide the highest quality hospice service that…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY — $390,500 · OtherFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITYLAHEY HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER — $107,414 · OtherLAHEY HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTERBETH SHALOM OF THE BLUE HILLS — $56,000 · OtherBETH SHALOM OF THE BLUE HILLSFAN FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherFAN FOUNDATIONGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $42,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $27,500 · Other+12 more — $138,601 · Other+12 moreFRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INC — $499,552 · EducationFRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INCEMERSON COLLEGE — $70,000 · EducationEMERSON COLLEGEPATH TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $430,500 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanth…Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc — $40,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $14,000 · Community ImprovementANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $51,500 · Civil RightsHome Health and Hospice Care — $29,000 · HealthRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC — $10,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,800 · HealthBROOKVIEW HOUSE INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesWE CAN CORPORATION — $3,200 · Human Services+2 more — $1,500 · Human Services
Other$812,515Education$599,552Philanthropy$430,500Community Improvement$54,000Civil Rights$51,500Health$40,800Human Services$39,700

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INC — $499,552 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $430,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE — $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $51,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $42,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPATH TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBROOKVIEW HOUSE INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHome Health and Hospice Care — $29,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT — $13,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWE CAN CORPORATION — $3,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARBOUR INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds FRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc
  • Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc
  • Who funds PATH TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC
  • Who funds Home Health and Hospice Care
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
  • Who funds THE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT
  • Who funds RUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC
  • Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC
  • Who funds WE CAN CORPORATION
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
  • Who funds JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER
  • Who funds THE HARBOUR INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Gruber Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Brookview House Inc34% of income from government
  • Judge Baker Children's Center29% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc22% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • The Walden Woods Project6% of income from government
  • We Can Corporation0% of income from government
  • Emerson College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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