· Private foundation
The Grove Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k14 grants · $285k
- $50k–250k99 grants · $11M
- $250k+19 grants · $8.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEO PHILANTHROPY INC | $1,171,400 |
| ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH | $780,000 |
| AMALGAMATED FOUNDATION | $652,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC | $647,500 |
| IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER | $645,000 |
| ONE ARIZONA | $490,000 |
| LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND | $350,000 |
| BLACK VOTERS MATTER CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE | $340,000 |
| COASTSIDE HOPE | $320,000 |
| PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR | $320,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COLLABORATIVE FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE | $300,000 |
| IFWHENHOW | $300,000 |
| COMMUNITY INITIATIVES | $270,000 |
| TO NIZHONI ANI | $270,000 |
| FORWARD TOGETHER | $250,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $15.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Grove Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
175 repeat relationships — 108 still active in FY2024, 67 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH2× · 2017–2020 · $7.5M · revenue +384%
NEO Philanthropy Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +191%- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC6× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +81%
Funded once
- DCDINE CITIZENS AGAINST RUINING OUR ENVIRONMENTone grant, 2022 · $540k · revenue -70% · 38% of their budget
- JFJUST FUTURES IMPACT INCone grant, 2023 · $500k
- CSCARDEA SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $338k · revenue +31%
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.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…
The California Center for Movement Legal Services (Movement Legal) provides legal services in the pursuit of improving the lives of California's traditionally underserved residents, carrying out legal work that fosters community led policy…
For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…
Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.
La Raza Centro Legal San Francisco provides high quality, highly trusted, free legal services to low-income or immigrant clients in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
APEN builds immigrant and refugee power for a just transition with local roots and statewide impact so all people can live, work, learn, play and thrive in a clean and healthy environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Training and Research Associates and the most unlike its peers is Thiebaut Method. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
294 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. 294 of the 351 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds ONE ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Future Net Incorporated ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COLLABORATIVE FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR ↗
- Who funds JOBTRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRATION INSTITUTE OF THE BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN INDIAN FAMILY COALITION ↗
- Who funds IFWHENHOW ↗
- Who funds Forward Together ↗
- Who funds STATE VOICES ↗
- Who funds COASTSIDE HOPE ↗
- Who funds SOMOS UN PUEBLO UNIDO ↗
- Who funds TRAILHEAD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds US CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds Groundswell Fund ↗
- Who funds Asian Law Caucus ↗
- Who funds TO NIZHONI ANI ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Hopewell Fund · New Venture Fund · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · Marguerite Casey Foundation · Tides Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc
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 The Grove 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.