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The Gruver Fund

To support double "h" hole in the woods ranch, lake luzerne, ny; to support charitable, educational, religious, scientific and literary purposes.

$209k
Granted FY2019
6
Grants FY2019
6
Organizations funded FY2019
17%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$110,530
Organizations funded a year
6 to 11
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
2
Total assets, FY2019
$51k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 17% of the organizations The Gruver Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
EducationInternationalArts & Culture
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20196$209k17%
FY20188$250k25%
FY201711$270kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Recreation & Sports$352kReligion$181kEducation$177kArts & Culture$15kPhilanthropy$2kInternational$2kYouth Development$680

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Double H Hole in the Woods Ranch Inc$352,06033%
First Reformed Church$180,0003n/a
Pennsylvania State University$155,0003n/a
Clarkson University$20,00020%
Arts Center and Theatre of Schenectady Inc$12,50020%
Russell Sage College$2,00010%
Junior Achievement of Northeastern New York$2,00020%
Museum of Innovation and Science$1,04020%
The Schenectady Foundation$1,00010%
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc$1,00010%
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All grantees of The Gruver Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Double H Hole in the Woods Ranch Inc$352,06033%
First Reformed Church$180,0003n/a
Pennsylvania State University$155,0003n/a
Clarkson University$20,00020%
Arts Center and Theatre of Schenectady Inc$12,50020%
Russell Sage College$2,00010%
Junior Achievement of Northeastern New York$2,00020%
Museum of Innovation and Science$1,04020%
The Schenectady Foundation$1,00010%
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc$1,00010%
United Way of the Greater Capital Region$1,00010%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Schenectady Inc$68020%
Empire State Youth Orchestra Inc$50010%
New Brunswick Theological Seminary$3001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gruver Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDouble H Hole in the Woods Ranch Inc: $352,060 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetClarkson University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArts Center and Theatre of Schenectady Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRussell Sage College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Northeastern New York: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMuseum of Innovation and Science: $1,040 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Schenectady Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMilwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of the Greater Capital Region: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Schenectady Inc: $680 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmpire State Youth Orchestra Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region IncNY24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Mvp Health Plan Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Carlilian Foundation · The Schenectady Foundation · Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

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How do I get to The Gruver Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Gruver 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.

About The Gruver Fund

How much does The Gruver Fund give?
The Gruver Fund reported 6 grants totaling $208,870 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does The Gruver Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (48%), Religion (25%), Education (24%).
Who are The Gruver Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Double H Hole in the Woods Ranch Inc ($352k), First Reformed Church ($180k), Pennsylvania State University ($155k).
Does The Gruver Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Gruver Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc, Mvp Health Plan Inc, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
Where is The Gruver Fund based?
The Gruver Fund is based in NY.

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 15 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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