· Private foundation
Irving and Jett Groves Charitable 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k50 grants · $122k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| YMCA ENDOWMENT FUND | $14,500 |
| GRACE NETWORK | $8,000 |
| LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP | $6,000 |
| MARTINSVILLE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $6,000 |
| MHC ACADEMIC FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP | $6,000 |
| PIEDMONT ARTS | $5,000 |
| CARLISLE SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND | $4,000 |
| DYERS STORE FIRE DEPARTMENT | $4,000 |
| PATRICK HENRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| CHARITY LEAGUE JETT GROVES SCHOLARSHIP | $4,000 |
| FOCUS ON YOUTH | $4,000 |
| RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE PRES CLUB | $3,500 |
| PREGNANCY CARE CENTER | $3,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
62 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JSJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +223%
- FOFOCUS ON YOUTH INC2× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +8%
- MCMartinsville-Henry County Historical Society3× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +336%
Funded once
- MCMARTINSVILLE-HENRY COUNTY RESCUE SQUADone grant, 2020 · $500
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 martinsville-henry county chamber of commerce, inc. is organized for the purpose of advancing the commercial, industrial, and civic inerests of the city of martinsville and henry county, virginia
The united way of henry county-martinsville unites and mobilizes the community in assessing and meeting the critical human service needs in henry county-martinsville, virginia.
Solicitation of public contributions on behalf of member colleges. provides foundations, businesses, and individuals a convenient way of supporting small colleges and universities in virginia.
To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.
Foster and promote the progress and general welfare of its member colleges, with special concern for the pluralistic nature of the system of higher education in virginia.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
The mission of wvicu is to advance collectively the interests of west virginia's independent colleges and universities and their students.
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
To foster and promote the growth, progress and general welfare of the southside virginia community college and the virginia college system.
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 67 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.
- Who funds RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MARTINSVILLE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TheatreWorks Community Players Inc ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Axton Life Saving Crew Inc ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds MHC ACADEMIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Martinsville-Henry County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SHERIFFS' INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SAFETYNET 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Hooker Foundation · Marjorie Sutton Memorial Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Irving and Jett Groves Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irving and Jett Groves Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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