How much does Gruber Family Foundation give?

Gruber Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $31,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Gruber Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Philanthropy (22%), Health (11%).

Who are Gruber Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of McGill University Inc ($500k), Emerson College ($70k), Anti-Defamation League ($52k).

Does Gruber Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Gruber Family 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 Gruber Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.

Where is Gruber Family Foundation based?

Gruber Family Foundation is based in FL.

Gruber Family Foundation

Gruber Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $2k
$10k–50k2 grants · $30k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$327k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PATH TO COLLEGE	$20,000
CONGREGATION SHAAREI TEFILLAH	$10,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE	$1,800

02The need

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 (FY17–22, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthCrime & LegalArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

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%
MF
MIRIAM FUND
one grant, 2017 · $5k

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.

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

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

Boston Architectural College

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

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Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

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

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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

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

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

Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health

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

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

Bridgton Hospital

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

Health

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc; 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 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. 19 of the 33 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

15/19

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$812,515Education$599,552Philanthropy$430,500Community Improvement$54,000Civil Rights$51,500Health$40,800Human Services$39,700

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.

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.

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

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 Gruber Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gruber Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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, 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home