California · Nonprofit
THE GRIMM FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
THE GRIMM FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,129,579 to it, the largest being THE RODNEY GRIMM FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,326,921). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $442k
What The Grimm Family Education Foundation does
Programs
Buena vista edible schoolyard program (bvesy)bvesy has a partnership with buena vista elementary public school located across the street. They provide the students kindergarten through sixth grade with garden and kitchen lessons throughout the year during school hours. Teaching students where food comes from, how to sustainably grow, and life cycles in the garden lessons. The kitchen lessons teach the students kitchen skills, healthy cooking habits, and how to work with others. Bvesy also will put on classes after school hours with the students and parents of buena vista elementary to further promote healthy eating. The program hosts an annual fundraiser in the springtime to raise funds and community outreach with a plant sale. Bvesy has also been expanding its community outreach hosting cooking classes for others outside of the partnership with the nearby public school. Bvesy is also contracting with other schools to build edible schoolyards on their sites.
$746,799 spentIn-school staffing & curriculum programthe in-school staffing and curriculum program works to help the edible schoolyard programs run efficiently and give the students the best experience while learning in the gardens and kitchens. The foundation's esy management staff meets with school administration throughout the year providing feedback and suggestions from observing the different esy programs. The esy admin staff also provides guidance and help to the esy teachers at the schools when help is needed. The foundation's esy management team worked with an outside consultant "grow your lunch llc". With the help of the outside consultant lesson plans and best practices were created to integrate common core standards into the garden and kitchen lessons at the school. The foundation's esy management team also worked on the planning and build out of the edible schoolyards for the grow public school's.
$806,959 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.5M to $655k (−56%).
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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $200k → $310k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 THE GRIMM FAMILY EDUCATION 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
THE GRIMM FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 92%; 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: 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 83% · 2021 65% · 2022 76% · 2023 97% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of THE GRIMM FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
97% of THE GRIMM FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k 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
THE GRIMM FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE GRIMM FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- THE GRIMM FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,129,579 to it, the largest being THE RODNEY GRIMM FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,326,921). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GRIMM FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $4,129,579 in grants to THE GRIMM FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GRIMM FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- THE RODNEY GRIMM FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,326,921 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GRIMM FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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