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The Ronda Gruber Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$66k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
75%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$532k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations The Ronda Gruber Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsEmploymentOther
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
FY2025still arriving12$66k50%
FY202412$43k75%
FY20236$50k50%
FY20226$37k83%
FY20216$24k17%
FY20206$74k17%
FY201910$33k60%
FY20188$73k38%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$191kHealth$102kAnimals$87kInternational$31kHuman Services$14kFood & Nutrition$6kHousing & Shelter$4kArts & Culture$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
CA
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($98k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ronda Gruber Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLife Learning Academy: $190,440 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetThe San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $70,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $8,875 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Smile Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNo One Left Behind: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetParalyzed Veterans of America: $5,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Pony Express: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSupport for Families of Children with Disabilities: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaws for Purple Hearts: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKqed Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the World Food Program Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDelancey Street California: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia State Parks Foundation: $250 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 22.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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About The Ronda Gruber Foundation

How much does The Ronda Gruber Foundation give?
The Ronda Gruber Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $66,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Ronda Gruber Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Health (23%), Animals (20%).
Who are The Ronda Gruber Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Life Learning Academy ($190k), The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($71k), Mercy Ships International ($10k).
Does The Ronda Gruber Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Ronda Gruber Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Ronda Gruber Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Ronda Gruber Foundation based?
The Ronda Gruber Foundation is based in CA.

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 46 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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