· Private foundation
Robert & Esther Grove 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 90% of ROBERT & ESTHER GROVE FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| HAGERSTOWN RESCUE MISSION | $20,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| TWO TOP MOUNTAIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS | $8,000 |
| CHRISTIAN KEYES FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| WOMEN IN NEED | $5,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| NETWORK MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| FRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| CHAMBERSBURG ROTARY CLUB | $5,000 |
| CUMBERLAND VALLEY SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $5,000 |
| BETHEL AME | $5,000 |
| CVAS | $5,000 |
| AM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LITTLE DAISY'S CLOSET | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 14 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CVCumberland Valley Animal Shelter Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +38%
- PCPROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY4× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +94%
- CHCHAMBERSBURG HOSPITAL2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- SHSUMMIT HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -9%
- GBGREENCASTLE BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $5k
- SPST PAUL UMC PADDLETOWNone grant, 2017 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Claiborne Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Providing comprehensive home-based and facility based hospice care to children and adults with life limiting and life threatening illnesses in southeastern pennsylvania. in addition, keystone hospice provides residential care through…
To provide Hospice services regardless of a patients ability to pay.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Cvph medical center's mission is to provide quality health care for the north country region in upstate new york.
Waynesboro hospital is a regional nonprofit healthcare organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
Franklin County Humane Society dba Franklin County Animal Rescue (FCAR)promotes the health, welfare, and humane treatment of animal in Northwestern Vermont and provides temporary shelter for them with the goal of finding them good,…
The mission of the family health council of central pennsylvania, inc. (fhccp) is to build and support community-based health networks through partnerships, education, advocacy, and effective resource allocation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Summit Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SUMMIT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds NETwork Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY- KITTOCHTINNY ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds LITTLE DAISY'S CLOSET ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND VALLEY SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CHAMBERSBURG HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds LUCKY LABS RESCUE CORP ↗
- Who funds RAVEN RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WILSON COLLEGE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · McCleary Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Robert & Esther Grove Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.