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The Grimm Family Foundation at a glance

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The Grimm 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.

$138k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$203kEducation$195kEnvironment$97kHealth$81kPublic Benefit$22kReligion$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $129k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$41,500
Western Reserve Land Conservancy$24,500
Warrior Surf Foundation$21,500
UNITE FOR HER$15,000
Presbyterian Hospital Foundation$15,000
Trees Charlotte$11,000
Faith Through Fire$5,000
American Museum of Fly Fishing Inc$4,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE FARM SCHOOL: $26k → 11%UNITE FOR HER: $17k → 6%Warrior Surf Foundation: $22k → 12%FAITH THROUGH FIRE: $15k → 5%FAITH THROUGH FIRE: $8k → 11%PROVIDENCE DAY SCHOOL: $10k → 10%GASTON DAY SCHOOL: $18k → 12%Western Reserve Land Conservancy: $25k → 17%American Museum of Fly Fishing Inc: $5k → 11%THE FARM SCHOOL: $23k → 11%UNITE FOR HER: $15k → 6%Faith Through Fire: $5k → 5%PROVIDENCE DAY SCHOOL: $8k → 10%GASTON DAY SCHOOL: $15k → 12%WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $20k → 17%THE FARM SCHOOL: $22k → 11%FAITH THROUGH FIRE: $4k → 5%PROVIDENCE DAY SCHOOL: $5k → 10%GASTON DAY SCHOOL: $14k → 12%WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $19k → 17%THE FARM SCHOOL: $20k → 11%CATAWBA LAND CONSERVANCY: $8k → 10%GASTON DAY SCHOOL: $10k → 12%WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $15k → 17%THE FARM SCHOOL: $15k → 11%DESTINY'S CALLING: $15k → 10%GASTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SVCS: $5k → 12%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $42k → 17%THE FARM SCHOOL: $9k → 11%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $24k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $23k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $22k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $20k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $20k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $19k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $15k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $14k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MI
MA
OH
PA
MO
NC
SC
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$528k · 7 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$528k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+93%

Still filing today

100%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHealthArts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • CM
    CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $199k · revenue +31%
  • TF
    The Farm School Inc
    6× · 2017–2022 · $115k · revenue +78%
  • WR
    WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $79k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • FT
    FAITH THROUGH FIRE
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
  • CL
    Catawba Lands Conservancygraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +93%
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
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
2
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
3
Triangle Land Conservancy Inc

Triangle land conservancy (tlc) strives to create a healthier and more vibrant triangle region by safeguarding clean water, protecting natural habitats, supporting local farms, and connecting people with nature through land protection and…

Environment
4
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
5
French and Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust Inc

To preserve, steward, and connect people to the land in northern chester county pennsylvania. see additional information on schedule o.french & pickering is recognized as a leader in regional land conservation, the organization is…

Environment
6
North Carolina Coastal Land Trust

The organization's primary exempt purpose is acquiring and protecting lands of regional and national conservation and/or historic significance in the coastal plain of north carolina.

Environment
7
Natural Lands Trust Inc

Saves open space, cares for nature, and connects people to the outdoors. (See schedule O)

Environment
8
Conservation Trust for North Carolina

Ctnc conserves land in ways that inspire and enable people to build resilient, just communities. we carry out our mission in collaboration with other conservation organizations and the communities we serve. our goal is to lessen the…

Environment
9
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
10
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
11
North Carolina Museum of Life & Science Inc

To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.

Arts & Culture
12
Lowcountry Land Trust Inc

To protect land and water forever, nurture relationships between people and place, and connect conservation to community.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence Day School Inc; the most unlike its peers is TreesCharlotte. 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $198,650 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY+1 more: $4,500 · Arts & CultureThe Farm School Inc: $114,650 · OtherThe Farm School IncIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFAITH THROUGH FIRE: $7,833 · OtherGASTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SVCS: $5,350 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $78,500 · EnvironmentWESTERN RESERVE L…TreesCharlotte: $11,000 · EnvironmentTreesCharlotteCatawba Lands Conservancy: $7,833 · EnvironmentCatawba Lands Con…GASTON DAY SCHOOL INC: $57,600 · EducationGASTON DAY SCH…PROVIDENCE DAY SCHOOL INC: $22,833 · EducationPROVIDENCE DAY…Unite for HER: $31,700 · HealthUnite for HE…FAITH THROUGH FIRE INC: $24,000 · HealthFAITH THROUG…PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthPRESBYTERIAN…WARRIOR SURF FOUNDATION: $21,500 · Public Benefit
Arts & Culture$203,150Other$147,833Environment$97,333Education$80,433Health$70,700Public Benefit$21,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $198,650 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Farm School Inc: $114,650 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $78,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGASTON DAY SCHOOL INC: $57,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUnite for HER: $31,700 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFAITH THROUGH FIRE INC: $24,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE DAY SCHOOL INC: $22,833 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTreesCharlotte: $11,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCatawba Lands Conservancy: $7,833 over 1y, 0.2% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Duke Energy FoundationFoundation for the Ca…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Duke Energy FoundationNC13.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Grimm Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Grimm Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • The Farm School Inc: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 16 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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