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· Private foundation
The Grove Foundation Inc
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$17k
Granted FY2024
12
Grants
4
Communities
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
0180% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.
Recreation & Sports$34kAnimals$1kPhilanthropy$1kHuman Services$518Education$125Health$100Environment$35Other$10k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2022
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2023
contributions
2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 12 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$64k
Total assets
Largest grants
- Kids on Point$11,950
- MANNA FoodBank$2,200
- Pet Helpers$1,030
- Operation Home$518
- Charleston Library Society$500
- American Foundation Suicide Prevent$500
- ETV Endowment of SC$240
- Gibbes Museum of Art$150
- Circle de Luz$125
- Alzeheimer's Association$120
- Who We Play For$100
- Rails to Trails Conservancy$35
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $518) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Humane Society of Charlotte Inc
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Animals
2
CureCervicalCancer
Dedicated to the early detection and prevention of cervical cancer around the globe for the women who need it most.
International
3
Dogs Playing for Life Inc
Dogs playing for life is redefining the meaning and importance of quality of life for all sheltered dogs by improving their experience through playgroups and individualized training, resulting in urgent and responsible livesaving.
Animals
4
Operation Paws for Homes Inc
To create a better world for companion animals and the community through rescue, rehabilitation, education, spay and neuter programs and resources to underserved populations.
Animals
5
Charlotte Tennis Association
CTA provides a full range of tennis programs and activities for people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds and creates opportunities to enjoy the social, physical and health benefits provided by the sport of tennis.
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6
Development Data Lab Inc
DDL`s Work is designed to widen public access to and use of economic, demographic and physical data that describes, defines and seeks to alleviate poverty, especially in the developing world
International
7
Chamber Music Charleston
Chamber Music Charleston is dedicated to developing the audience for classical music through chamber music concerts and educational programs of the highest caliber.
Arts & Culture
8
Coastal Prairie Conservancy
Protecting the coastal prairie for the benefit of its wildlife and the people of Texas.
Environment
9
Carolina Raptor Center Inc
Environmental stewardship, education, research, and rehabilitation of injured birds of prey
Animals
10
Wilton Land Conservation Trust
PROTECTING, ENHANCING AND CONSERVING open spaces encompassing MEADOWS, WOODLANDS, AND WATERWAYS IN THE town of Wilton CT.
Environment
11
South Carolina Legal Services
To provide legal assistance to those involved in noncriminal proceedings who are unable to afford legal counsel
Crime & Legal
12
Castleton Free Library
The Castleton Free Library serves as a welcoming center for our community and a gateway to the world of information and imagination.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pet Helpers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Home Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Recreation & Sports$34,203Other$9,523Animals$1,030Philanthropy$1,000Human Services$518Education$125Health$100Environment$35
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.
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.
Coastal Community Foundation of SouthSC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation The Grove Foundation Inc 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Kids on Point.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~11 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.1× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 270771548 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Kids on Point, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to The Grove Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to The Grove Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines