Kansas · Nonprofit
GROOVER LABS INC
GROOVER LABS INC (Kansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $215,038 to it, the largest being THE GRIDLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($215,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $215k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Groover Labs Inc does
Mission
Groover labs is a non-profit whose mission is to foster growth in local start-up activity by providing a single location where entrepreneurs and tech workers can get support and share ideas in a collaborative working environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Co-working spaces - the 42,000 square-foot facility features a varietyof flexible work and meeting spaces that can be scheduled by the houror month. These spaces include large and small offices, dedicated andopen desk seating, seven conference rooms, a large event venue and twoclassrooms, all with high speed gigabit internet access.
$301,138 spentof which $182,775 as grants$352,560 earned by the program50% of program spendingMakerspace - the large maker and prototyping space featuring advancedtools for printed circuit board (pcb) assembly, large format lasercutting, various forms of 3d printing, as well as wood and metal work.
$181,742 spent$115,069 earned by the program30% of program spendingEvent & conference facilities - event and conference facilitiesavailable by the hour to the community at lower rates.
$124,279 spent$92,386 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $607,159.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $132k to $792k (+498%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 16% · 2021 12% · 2022 14% · 2023 57% · 2024 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of GROOVER LABS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $30k → $25.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of GROOVER LABS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GROOVER LABS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of GROOVER LABS INC's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
GROOVER LABS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like GROOVER LABS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Gridley Family Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GROOVER LABS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GROOVER LABS INC?
- GROOVER LABS INC (Kansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $215,038 to it, the largest being THE GRIDLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($215,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROOVER LABS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $215,038 in grants to GROOVER LABS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROOVER LABS INC?
- THE GRIDLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $215,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROOVER LABS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing