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The William R Gruver 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.

$295k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
35%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,704
Organizations funded a year
6 to 20
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$5.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 35% of the organizations The William R Gruver Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsEmploymentPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving19$254k37%
FY202420$222k35%
FY202318$240k50%
FY202216$177k38%
FY202112$101k50%
FY202011$85k55%
FY20196$4k17%
FY201815$147k60%
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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.

Health$656kPhilanthropy$589kEducation$276kFood & Nutrition$218kAnimals$73kHuman Services$37kRecreation & Sports$19kReligion$13kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
NY
OR
SD
PA
NJ
KY
VA
MD
TN
GA
FL

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lee Memorial Health System Foundation Inc$532,49770%
Community Cooperative Inc$217,07882%
Navy Supply Corps Foundation Inc$54,08258%
Lymphoma Foundation$45,166211%
Open Discourse Coalition$30,32531%
Cornell University$20,00010%
Rutgers University Foundation$18,03830%
Guadalupe Center Inc$17,04740%
Berea College$15,00020%
Captiva Chapel by the Sea$12,5002n/a
Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($256k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLee Memorial Health System Foundation Inc: $532,497 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Cooperative Inc: $217,078 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetNavy Supply Corps Foundation Inc: $54,082 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetLymphoma Foundation: $45,166 over 2y, 11% of budgetOpen Discourse Coalition: $30,325 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCornell University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRutgers University Foundation: $18,038 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGuadalupe Center Inc: $17,047 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBerea College: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOccupational Development Center: $10,058 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGulfshore Opera LLC: $6,541 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBucknell University: $6,404 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Barnabas Hospital: $5,016 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZaka Tel-Aviv Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDayspring Christian Academy: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPotsdam College Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGulf Coast Humane Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeisinger Health: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBosler Memorial Library: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetElk Hill Farm Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChoices Healthcare: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHomewood Living Ministries Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Fakahatchee: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNorthwell Health Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNortheastern Pennsylvania Educational Television Association: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBradford County Humane Society: $100 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 28.

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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.

Collier Community Foundation IncFL13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Collier Community Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving 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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Find your warmest path to The William R Gruver Foundation 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 William R Gruver Foundation

How much does The William R Gruver Foundation give?
The William R Gruver Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $294,512 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The William R Gruver Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), Philanthropy (30%), Education (14%).
Who are The William R Gruver Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lee Memorial Health System Foundation Inc ($532k), Community Cooperative Inc ($217k), Navy Supply Corps Foundation Inc ($54k).
Does The William R Gruver Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The William R Gruver 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 William R Gruver Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Collier Community Foundation Inc, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is The William R Gruver Foundation based?
The William R Gruver Foundation is based in FL.

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 65 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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