Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
GROVE COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION
GROVE COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,399,300 to it, the largest being Siegel Family Endowment ($740,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $618k
What Grove Collective Foundation does
Mission
To increase economic and social mobility by equipping innovators with teams of experienced social entrepreneurs who can help them accelerate their sector-changing ideas. Solutions for the world's most pressing social challenges are often envisioned by leaders of the nonprofits and universities facing those challenges every day. Unfortunately, those leaders are often too busy running their organizations to move the big idea, so it never leaves the drawing board. The foundation is a social-impact organization that provides entrepreneurial capacity to help partners move their big idea from concept to concrete.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Obsidian ecosystem initiative - black and brown real estate developers seed multidimensional infrastructure. The obsidian ecosystem initiative connects the nation's top emerging black and brown real estate developers with education, workforce, and infrastructure innovators to provide breakthrough neighborhood-level social and economic mobility outcomes.
$252,617 spent29% of program spendingConsortium - a consortium of the nation's highly-selective colleges and high-impact community-based organizations creates a more equitable application process for students from low-income backgrounds.
$488,590 spent$117,500 earned by the program56% of program spendingThe redemptive leadership project seeks to create a space for people with meaningful differences to come together in true fellowship, during a time when fewer and fewer such spaces exist. The collective curated an invitation list to bring together a community with diverse expressions of embodied faith and experience, representing different cultures, denominations, political views, sexual orientations, roles in education, and understandings of god. The collective deeply believes in the power of building community across many lines of difference, and looks forward to co-creating a sacred and brave space of listening, learning, and community.
$66,125 spent8% of program spendingYouthcreate provides a national support system that empowers local nonprofits to engage young people in leading high-quality community improvement projects and creating solutions that strengthen their communities.
$8,161 spent1% of program spendingLeadership initiative for faith and education (life) builds partnerships between schools and faith communities in the u.s., supporting the life initiative at harvard's graduate school of education. The program aims to clarify the center's unique, valuable contribution to the field and develop a strategy to expand the impact of life.
$50,285 spent$33,333 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $865,778.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $356k to $770k (+116%).
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.
85% of GROVE COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $240k → $280k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 GROVE COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION’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
GROVE COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund GROVE COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 71% — diversifying over time.
“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
GROVE COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $557k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
GROVE COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GROVE COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GROVE COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: 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 GROVE COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION?
- GROVE COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,399,300 to it, the largest being Siegel Family Endowment ($740,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROVE COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $2,399,300 in grants to GROVE COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROVE COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION?
- Siegel Family Endowment is the largest funder on record, with $740,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROVE COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 8 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