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The Ronda Gruber Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$191kHealth$102kAnimals$87kInternational$31kHuman Services$14kFood & Nutrition$6kHousing & Shelter$4kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$532k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIFE LEARNING ACADEMY$25,000
SAN FRANCISCO SPCA$15,000
MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH$7,500
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$5,000
SMILE TRAIN$2,500
MERCY SHIPS$2,500
OPERATION SMILES$2,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$2,500
KQED INC$1,500
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND$1,000
DEBORAH SLATER DANCE THEATRE$750
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY$500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $5k → 9%SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES: $3k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
CA
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
TX
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$345k · 12 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
28

Total granted

$345k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
0%

Still filing today

83%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalAnimalsHealthEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • LL
    Life Learning Academy
    6× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +37%
  • TS
    THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +69%
  • Mercy Ships International
    3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • BR
    BRANDON REID KAPLAN SPECIAL NEEDS T
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • BR
    BRANDON REID KAPLAN SNT
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • United States Association for UNHCR
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -59%
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
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
4
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
5
Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International
6
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
7
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
8
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
9
World Vets

To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…

Animals
10
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
11
Global Partners in Care

The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.

International
12
Disability Rights Advocates for Technology

Disability rights advocates for technology (draft) is an advocate for the use of universal design and new technologies to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities and senior citizens and represents people with disabilities…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. 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

23 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. 23 of the 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
12/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Life Learning Academy: $190,440 · EducationLife Learning AcademyNATIONAL MULTIBLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $27,578 · OtherNATIONAL MULTIBLE SCLEROSI…BRANDON REID KAPLAN SPECIAL NEEDS T: $15,000 · OtherBRANDON REID KAPLAN SPECIA…BRANDON REID KAPLAN SNT: $10,000 · OtherBRANDON REID KAPLAN SNTHORSES HEALING HEARTS INC: $7,500 · OtherHORSES HEALING HEARTS INCMACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH: $7,500 · OtherMACULAR DEGENERATION RESEA…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,340 · Other+20 more: $25,450 · Other+20 moreTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $70,500 · AnimalsTHE SAN FRANCISCO S…GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2,600 · Animals+1 more: $1,500 · AnimalsMercy Ships International: $10,000 · InternationalMercy Shi…United States Association for UNHCR: $10,000 · InternationalUnited St…OPERATION SMILE INC: $8,000 · InternationalOPERATION…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,500 · InternationalMEDECINS …+2 more: $1,600 · InternationalNo One Left Behind: $7,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesWHITE PONY EXPRESS: $5,000 · Human ServicesSupport for Families of Children with Disabilities: $2,500 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $8,875 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $5,050 · HealthPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $2,000 · Public Benefit
Education$190,440Other$102,368Animals$74,600International$36,100Human Services$22,000Health$13,925Public Benefit$2,000

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

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
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.

Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Ronda Gruber Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ronda Gruber Foundation. 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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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