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The Gruver Fund at a glance

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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
2
States reached
$111k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2019 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k3 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $176k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$51k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%PENN STATE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: $75k → 16%DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH: $162k → 10%SAGE COLLEGES: $2k → 11%MUSEUM OF INNOVATION AND SCIENCE: $800 → 12%SCHENECTADY FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $1k → 14%CLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 18%MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY: $1k → 17%NEW BRUNSWICK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $300 → 8%PENN STATE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: $50k → 16%DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH: $111k → 10%MUSEUM OF INNOVATION AND SCIENCE: $240 → 12%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $1k → 14%CLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 18%PENN STATE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: $30k → 16%DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH: $80k → 10%FIRST REFORMED CHURCH: $80k → 12%FIRST REFORMED CHURCH: $65k → 12%FIRST REFORMED CHURCH: $35k → 12%PROCTORS THEATER: $10k → 12%PROCTORS THEATER: $3k → 12%CITY MISSION: $500 → 12%EMPIRE YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $500 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$723k · 8 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$723k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+7%

Still filing today

75%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DH
    DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $352k · revenue +21%
  • AC
    ARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $13k · revenue +29%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SCHENECTADY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +7%
  • MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -49%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -12%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
2
Syracuse University

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…

Education
3
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

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…

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4
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

—
10
Bronx Charter School for Excellence

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…

Education
11
Heckscher Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
12
University of New Haven

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Schenectady Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC: $352,060 · Recreation & SportsDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INCFIRST REFORMED CHURCH: $180,000 · OtherFIRST REFORMED CHURCHPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $155,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY+2 more: $800 · OtherCLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $2,000 · EducationARTS CENTER AND THEATRE OF SCHENECTADY INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF INNOVATION AND SCIENCE: $1,040 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK: $2,000 · InternationalTHE SCHENECTADY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION: $1,000 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC: $680 · Youth Development
Recreation & Sports$352,060Other$335,800Education$22,000Arts & Culture$15,040International$2,000Philanthropy$1,000Human Services$1,000Youth Development$680

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Foundat…Mvp Health Plan IncGe Aerospace Foundati…The Carlilian Foundat…The Schenectady Found…Neil Jane William Est…Pioneer Bank Charitab…Price Chopper's Golub…Verizon FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Gruver Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gruver Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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