· Private foundation
Grune 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k55 grants · $138k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth | $15,000 |
| Players By the Sea | $15,000 |
| Mission House | $15,000 |
| Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church | $15,000 |
| Darien YMCA | $7,500 |
| First Cong Church Darien CT | $7,500 |
| Denison University | $7,500 |
| BEAM | $6,000 |
| World Affairs Council of Jacksonville | $5,000 |
| Darien Land Trust | $5,000 |
| The Neighborhood Academy | $5,000 |
| Duke University | $5,000 |
| Community Fund Darien | $5,000 |
| Darien Library | $5,000 |
| Rollins College | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
70 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BABoys and Girls Club of Northeast Florida Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $166k · revenue +508%
- DUDENISON UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +39%
DUKE UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- CMCummer Museum of Artone grant, 2020 · $6k
- SJSt Johns United Fundone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CSCooper Siegel Libraryone grant, 2024 · $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.
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
How this is measured
54 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. 54 of the 114 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
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- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
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- Who funds Mission House Inc ↗
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- Who funds DARIEN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHNS RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
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- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN ↗
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- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSANNA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSONVILLE CHILDREN'S CHORUS 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · The Gate Foundation Inc · 522 Foundation Inc · Gasper & Irene Lazzara Charitable Foundation · The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc · The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation · United Way of Northeast Florida Inc · Pga Tour Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Rogers Family Foundation · The Goodnow Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Grune Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grune Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dbwpc Inc: 10% of income from government
- The Community Fund of Darien: 9% of income from government
- Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
- Rollins College: 0% of income from government
- Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc: 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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