· Public charity
The Gruver Fund
To support double "h" hole in the woods ranch, lake luzerne, ny; to support charitable, educational, religious, scientific and literary purposes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k3 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $176k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH | $110,530 |
| FIRST REFORMED CHURCH | $65,000 |
| PENN STATE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM | $30,000 |
| SAGE COLLEGES | $2,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC | $1,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC | $340 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
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 +21% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- DHDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC3× · 2017–2019 · $352k · revenue +21%
- ACARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC2× · 2017–2018 · $13k · revenue +29%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- TSTHE SCHENECTADY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +7%
MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -49%- UWUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGIONone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -12%
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Organization's missionas a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, syracuse university faculty and…
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Schenectady Inc and the most unlike its peers is City Mission of Schenectady. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 15 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
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 DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds CLARKSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC ↗
- Who funds RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF INNOVATION AND SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds THE SCHENECTADY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION OF SCHENECTADY ↗
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: 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
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 Gruver Fund 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.
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.
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