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The Grove Creek Fund at a glance

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The Grove Creek Fund

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.

$316k
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.5MHealth$132kInternational$100kArts & Culture$61kReligion$40kEnvironment$36kHuman Services$32kPhilanthropy$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $96k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY$100,000
GROTON SCHOOL$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH$10,000
CICELY SAUNDERS AMERICAS INC$10,000
ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL$10,000
JOHN BAER ARCHIVE$10,000
DOMINICAN ACADEMY$10,000
BOLLES SCHOOL$10,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$10,000
WASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY$10,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$10,000
YMCA$8,000
KIPP JACKSONVILLE SCHOOLS$8,000
CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND$5,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$5,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOSPICE AND PALLATIVE CARE OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY: $2k → 7%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

ID
ND
IL
MI
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
VA
DE
TN
NC
DC
LA
TX
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 38 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
10

Total granted

$1.9M
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+1%

Still filing today

61%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
EducationHealthInternationalAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +12%
  • GROTON SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $90k · revenue +8%
  • BD
    BELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • HN
    HOLY NAME PROVINCE
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • BT
    BET TZEDEK
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taft School Corporation; the most unlike its peers is John Baer Archive. 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

34 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. 34 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
26/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DOMINICAN ACADEMY: $513,000 · OtherDOMINICAN ACADEMYLA SALLE ACADEMY: $110,000 · OtherLA SALLE ACADEMYWASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY: $94,000 · OtherWASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMYYALE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherST ANDREW'S SCHOOL: $50,000 · Other+31 more: $362,500 · Other+31 moreST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $108,500 · EducationST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORKGROTON SCHOOL: $90,000 · EducationGROTON SCHOOLBELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC: $83,500 · EducationBELMONT DAY SCHOOL INCKIPP JACKSONVILLE INC: $72,000 · EducationKIPP JACKSONVILLE INCTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $65,000 · EducationTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INCManhattan University: $45,000 · EducationManhattan UniversityTHE BOLLES SCHOOL: $45,000 · EducationTHE BOLLES SCHOOLSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC: $38,000 · EducationSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INCTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $22,500 · Education+6 more: $51,000 · Education+6 moreChildren's Hospital Corporation: $35,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $32,100 · HealthCHILDKIND INTERNATIONAL INC: $14,500 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,000 · HealthPHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $80,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC: $6,500 · InternationalJohn Baer Archive: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $8,000 · AnimalsCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyHOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE WOOD RIVER VALLEY INC: $2,000 · Human Services
Other$1,179,500Education$620,500Health$91,600International$86,500Arts & Culture$10,000Animals$8,000Philanthropy$2,500Human Services$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $108,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGROTON SCHOOL: $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC: $83,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $80,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetKIPP JACKSONVILLE INC: $72,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $65,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetManhattan University: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOLLES SCHOOL: $45,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC: $38,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $32,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN LAKE COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $23,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $22,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST STEPHEN'S SCHOOL: $22,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $15,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDKIND INTERNATIONAL INC: $14,500 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetBOK TOWER GARDENS INC: $13,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Baer Archive: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC: $6,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBET TZEDEK: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHealthCare Chaplaincy Inc DBA HealthCare Chaplaincy Network: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds KIPP JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Manhattan University ↗
  • Who funds THE BOLLES SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN LAKE COMMUNITY SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ST STEPHEN'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHILDKIND INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BOK TOWER GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds John Baer Archive ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗

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.

Fidelity FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…The US Charitable Gif…Vanguard Charitable E…Renaissance Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Network for Good
Fidelity FoundationMA12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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 Grove Creek Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Grove Creek Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Kipp Jacksonville Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Bok Tower Gardens Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
5report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Grove Creek Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Grove Creek Fund 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.

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 61 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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