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John E Groenings Charitable Foundation at a glance

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John E Groenings 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.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$9kHuman Services$6kReligion$6kYouth Development$4kHealth$2kEnvironment$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$196k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fostering Success$1,000
Tunnel to Towers$1,000
Scholarship America$1,000
San Pablo Catholic Church$1,000
Tidewell Foundation$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Wounded Warrior Family Support: $1k → 12%Wounded Warrior Family Support: $1k → 12%Wounded Warrior Family Support: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$27k · 8 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$27k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+50%

Still filing today

38%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • SP
    San Pablo Catholic Church
    5× · 2021–2025 · $6k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2018–2021 · $5k
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • EA
    ELGIN ACADEMY
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -31%
  • FK
    FLORIDA KEYS LAND & SEA TRUST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +94%
  • PA
    Portsmouth Abbey School
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Furman University

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.

Education
3
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc

Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…

Education
4
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
5
St Luke's Foundation Inc

An exceptional education that inspires a deep love of learning, a strong moral compass, the commitment to serve, and the confidence to lead.

Education
6
Institute for Student Achievement Foundation

Institute for student achievement foundation (isaf) raises funds to support the institute for student achievement (isa), which is a part of educational testing service, a section 501(c)(3) public charity, that wants all students,…

Education
7
Trustees of Lawrence Academy At Groton Ma Corp

Lawrence academy recognizes you for who you are, inspires you to take responsibility for who you want to become, supports you as you learn, and empowers you to take action for the greater good.

Education
8
Stratford Academy Inc

Stratford academy is an independent, non-sectarian, college preparatory school for students in pre-kindergarten through grade twelve. guided by the motto, "freedom for excellence", stratford provides a superior education for students with…

Education
9
Trillium Academy

The mission of trillium academy is to break away from conventional schooling and celebrate the incredible capabilities of twice-exceptional (2e) students, providing them with the learning environment they need to discover and develop their…

Education
10
Institute for Shipboard Education

Journeys of discovery that spark bold solutions to global challenges.

Education
11
Lindenwood Education System

Real experience. real success.enhancing lives through quality education and professional preparatory experiences. see schedule o.values:we put our students first. we have an unwavering commitment to providing the highest quality education,…

Education
12
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scholarship America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fostering Success 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

8 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. 8 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

San Pablo Catholic Church: $6,000 · OtherSan Pablo Catholic ChurchIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFriends of Foster Children: $3,000 · OtherFriends of Foster ChildrenFOSTERING SUCCESS INC: $2,000 · OtherFOSTERING SUCCESS INCBig Brothers and Sisters of the Sun: $2,000 · OtherBig Brothers and Sisters of the SunPortsmouth Abbey School: $1,000 · OtherSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $4,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TO…ELGIN ACADEMY: $2,000 · EducationELGIN ACADEMYSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $1,000 · EducationSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCLAKE FOREST ACADEMY: $1,000 · EducationLAKE FOREST ACADEMYWOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WA…TIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · HealthFLORIDA KEYS LAND & SEA TRUST INC: $1,000 · Environment
Other$19,000Education$8,000Human Services$3,000Health$2,000Environment$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELGIN ACADEMY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA KEYS LAND & SEA TRUST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE FOREST ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 John E Groenings Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John E Groenings Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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