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Mark & Susan Grimme Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$92k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
45%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 20
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$2.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 45% of the organizations Mark & Susan Grimme Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Human ServicesAnimalsEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$92k31%
FY202320$63k45%
FY202210$13k50%
FY202110$18kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$54kHuman Services$46kPhilanthropy$42kReligion$7kAnimals$7kEducation$3kCommunity Improvement$2kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Samaritan Car Care Clinic$40,00023%
Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc$25,00020%
Kingdoms Crew$15,000115%
Paws for Miles$6,00013%
Milestones Inc$3,75011%
The Beat Goes On$3,7501n/a
Ken Anderson Alliance$3,00020%
Brighton Center Inc$3,00040%
Greater Liberty Baptist Church$3,0003n/a
Alliance for Catholic Urban Education Inc$3,0002n/a
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All grantees of Mark & Susan Grimme Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Samaritan Car Care Clinic$40,00023%
Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc$25,00020%
Kingdoms Crew$15,000115%
Paws for Miles$6,00013%
Milestones Inc$3,75011%
The Beat Goes On$3,7501n/a
Ken Anderson Alliance$3,00020%
Brighton Center Inc$3,00040%
Greater Liberty Baptist Church$3,0003n/a
Alliance for Catholic Urban Education Inc$3,0002n/a
New Perceptions Inc$3,00020%
Carmel Manor Inc$1,50030%
Music & Memory Inc$1,00020%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($73k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mark & Susan Grimme Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSamaritan Car Care Clinic: $40,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetHospice of the Bluegrass Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKingdoms Crew: $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetPaws for Miles: $6,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMilestones Inc: $3,750 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKen Anderson Alliance: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBrighton Center Inc: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew Perceptions Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCarmel Manor Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMusic & Memory Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500KY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500 · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Chas and Ruth Seligman Family Foundation Inc · The Butler Foundation · George and Mary Jo Budig Family Foundati Foundation C/O George J Budig · The Fischer Family Foundation 2008 · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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About Mark & Susan Grimme Family Foundation

How much does Mark & Susan Grimme Family Foundation give?
Mark & Susan Grimme Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $91,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 20 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Mark & Susan Grimme Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (29%), Human Services (25%), Philanthropy (23%).
Who are Mark & Susan Grimme Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Samaritan Car Care Clinic ($40k), Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc ($25k), Kingdoms Crew ($15k).
Does Mark & Susan Grimme Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mark & Susan Grimme 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 Mark & Susan Grimme Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500, Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation.
Where is Mark & Susan Grimme Family Foundation based?
Mark & Susan Grimme Family Foundation is based in KY.

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 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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