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The Giving Grove

Provide healthy calories, strengthen community and improve the urban environment through a nationwide network of sustainable little orchards to dramatically increase access to healthy food.

$220k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$24,381
Largest grant, FY2025
$45,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 12
FY2021 to FY2024
Total assets, FY2025
$1.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Giving Grove funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EnvironmentFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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
FY2025still arriving10$195k30%
FY202410$276k0%
FY202312$484k42%
FY20227$211k71%
FY20213$70kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$1.2MEnvironment$72k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
MI
IN
OH
PA
CO
MO
KY
VA
TN
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Gleaning Network of Texas$186,084412%
Food Well Alliance$127,35042%
Michigan State University$116,9972n/a
Kansas City Community Gardens Inc$103,01543%
Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest$92,50031%
Keep Growing Detroit$90,97022%
Seed St Louis$87,86834%
Tilth Alliance$87,81441%
Denver Urban Gardens$72,50031%
Unity Gardens$72,16634%
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All grantees of The Giving Grove by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Gleaning Network of Texas$186,084412%
Food Well Alliance$127,35042%
Michigan State University$116,9972n/a
Kansas City Community Gardens Inc$103,01543%
Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest$92,50031%
Keep Growing Detroit$90,97022%
Seed St Louis$87,86834%
Tilth Alliance$87,81441%
Denver Urban Gardens$72,50031%
Unity Gardens$72,16634%
Green Umbrella$71,50031%
Louisville Grows Incorporated$40,00034%
The Works Inc$25,0001n/a
Nashville Food Project Inc$25,00011%
Project Pando Inc$25,000152%
Memphis Tilth$12,50014%

Where it is load-bearing

The Giving Grove supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGleaning Network of Texas: $186,084 over 4y, 12% of budgetFood Well Alliance: $127,350 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetKansas City Community Gardens Inc: $103,015 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetFriends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest: $92,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetKeep Growing Detroit: $90,970 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSeed St Louis: $87,868 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetTilth Alliance: $87,814 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetDenver Urban Gardens: $72,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUnity Gardens: $72,166 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetGreen Umbrella: $71,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLouisville Grows Incorporated: $40,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetNashville Food Project Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetProject Pando Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetMemphis Tilth: $12,500 over 1y, 4.3% 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 14.

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.

National Arbor Day FoundationNE13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Arbor Day Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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How do I get to The Giving Grove?

Find your warmest path to The Giving Grove through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Giving Grove

How much does The Giving Grove give?
The Giving Grove reported 11 grants totaling $220,198 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 12 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does The Giving Grove fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (95%), Environment (5%).
Who are The Giving Grove's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Gleaning Network of Texas ($186k), Food Well Alliance ($127k), Michigan State University ($117k).
Does The Giving Grove fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Giving Grove?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Arbor Day Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is The Giving Grove based?
The Giving Grove is based in MO.

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 17 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 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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