Michigan · Private foundation
Robert and Sharon Grooters 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.
- $25k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $81k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Robert and Sharon Grooters Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 72% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $25k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $57k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $17k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $26k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $31k | 83% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $6k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $4k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $10k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mental Health Foundation of West Michigan | $40,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Maule STEM Cell Research Institute Inc | $38,500 | 1 | 64% |
| Great Lakes Center for the Arts | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Museum of the Horseless Carriage | $5,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Helping Hands Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Bay Harbor Foundation | $2,510 | 2 | 1% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Genevieve and Donald S Gilmore Fdn | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kierstens Ride | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Conductive Learning Center of North America | $250 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mental Health Foundation of West Michigan | $40,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Maule STEM Cell Research Institute Inc | $38,500 | 1 | 64% |
| Great Lakes Center for the Arts | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Museum of the Horseless Carriage | $5,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Helping Hands Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Bay Harbor Foundation | $2,510 | 2 | 1% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Genevieve and Donald S Gilmore Fdn | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kierstens Ride | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Conductive Learning Center of North America | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| The Jt Mestdagh Foundation | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| United Way of Brazoria County | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Corewell Health Foundation West Michigan | $100 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($73k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert and Sharon Grooters Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
Compare Robert and Sharon Grooters Foundation with peer funders
About Robert and Sharon Grooters Foundation
- How much does Robert and Sharon Grooters Foundation give?
- Robert and Sharon Grooters Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $24,770 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Robert and Sharon Grooters Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (42%), Religion (20%), Arts & Culture (19%).
- Who are Robert and Sharon Grooters Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mental Health Foundation of West Michigan ($40k), Maule STEM Cell Research Institute Inc ($39k), Great Lakes Center for the Arts ($25k).
- Does Robert and Sharon Grooters Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert and Sharon Grooters 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 Robert and Sharon Grooters Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Frey Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Robert and Sharon Grooters Foundation based?
- Robert and Sharon Grooters Foundation is based in MI.
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