Connecticut · Public charity
The Gruber Foundation
The gruber foundation honors individuals in the fields of cosmology, genetics, neuroscience, justice, and women's rights, whose groundbreaking work provides new models that inspire and enable fundamental shifts in knowledge and culture.
- $6.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
92% of The Gruber Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Yale University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2025
- $5.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,764,478
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $249M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Gruber Foundation 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.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $440k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $102k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $140k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $457k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $357k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $65k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $115k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $125k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Society for Neuroscience | $635,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Genetics Society of America In | $587,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Arizona Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of California Berkeley Foundation | $166,667 | 1 | 0% |
| California Institute of Technology | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fusion Partnership Inc | $16,666 | 1 | 0% |
| De Novo Center for Justice and Healing | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gruber Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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About The Gruber Foundation
- How much does The Gruber Foundation give?
- The Gruber Foundation reported 5 itemized grants totaling $5,204,478, out of $6,079,478 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Gruber Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (94%), Science & Tech (3%), Health (2%).
- Who are The Gruber Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Society for Neuroscience ($635k), The Genetics Society of America In ($587k), Children's Hospital Corporation ($300k).
- Does The Gruber Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is The Gruber Foundation based?
- The Gruber Foundation is based in CT.
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