Minnesota · Nonprofit
GROVES ACADEMY
GROVES ACADEMY (Minnesota) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,112,456 to it, the largest being WEM FOUNDATION ($5,930,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $27M
What Groves Academy does
Mission
The mission of groves learning organization is to build confidence and success for learners, particularly those with learning differences such as dyslexia, adhd and executive function challenges. Through research-based approaches and transformative learning experiences that meet the needs of each unique learner, our vision is to redefine the way our nation is taught, one student, one teacher, and one school at a time.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Groves Academy serves learners in grades 1-12 with students with learning differences such as dyslexia, adhd, executive function challenges, and other language-based learning disabilities. Opening in 1972 in st. Louis park, minnesota, groves is the midwest's leading school for students with learning differences. Our research-based, multi-sensory approach meets each learner where they are, honoring strengths while tackling challenges head-on. With small class sizes, specialized curriculum, and expert teachers who truly understand learning differences and the challenges learners face to feel successful, we create a space where students learn, build confidence, and succeed at school and at life.
$9,689,707 spentof which $1,885,647 as grants$10,425,957 earned by the program65% of program spendingGroves learning center was established in 2015 to provide a comprehensive array of fee-based services to the greater twin cities community and to our groves students. These services include diagnostic testing, tutoring, speech and language assessments and therapy. Summer programs offer a variety of academic and enrichment programs for students in grades 2-12. The learning center is one of the few sites in the twin cities that offers all of these services under one roof, and many of our learning center clients participate in more than one service.
$2,915,439 spent$3,341,474 earned by the program20% of program spendingGroves literacy partners (glp) is a rapidly growing program providing curriculum, coaching and professional development, and systems guidance to schools to help close the literacy gap for over 11,000 students in over 90 schools throughout minnesota. Glp collaborates with schools, using research-based methods, to help emerging and struggling readers and under-resourced schools. The vision for this program is to expand nationwide to influence long-term change in how teachers deliver classroom literacy instruction.
$2,286,643 spent$1,608,763 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,891,789.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $21M to $38M (+79%).
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: 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of GROVES ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $209k → $6.3M.
21 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 GROVES ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 funders by total. 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
GROVES ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 GROVES ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 15% · 2018 24% · 2019 20% · 2020 32% · 2021 36% · 2022 21% · 2023 84% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
51% of GROVES ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
90% of GROVES ACADEMY's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
GROVES ACADEMY's funding base is broadening — from 20 funders to 39 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like GROVES ACADEMY
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GROVES ACADEMY: 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 GROVES ACADEMY?
- GROVES ACADEMY (Minnesota) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,112,456 to it, the largest being WEM FOUNDATION ($5,930,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROVES ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $14,112,456 in grants to GROVES ACADEMY, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROVES ACADEMY?
- WEM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,930,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROVES ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 74 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing