California · Private foundation
Gruer 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.
- $19k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,205
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $78k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 63% of the organizations Gruer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $19k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $71k | 63% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $37k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $50k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $20k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $115k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $74k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $36k | 83% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Friends of Alut | $125,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Beth Jacob Congregation | $33,279 | 8 | n/a |
| Israel Magen Fund Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hillel Hebrew Academy | $8,444 | 2 | n/a |
| American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro Inc | $1,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Ezer Mizion | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Shalhevet High School | $180 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($297k), not named here.
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Gruer Family Foundation
- How much does Gruer Family Foundation give?
- Gruer Family Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $18,885 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gruer Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (73%), Religion (22%), Public Safety & Disaster (2%).
- Who are Gruer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Friends of Alut ($125k), Beth Jacob Congregation ($33k), Israel Magen Fund Inc ($15k).
- Does Gruer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gruer 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 Gruer Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Gruer Family Foundation based?
- Gruer Family Foundation is based in CA.
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