Connecticut · Nonprofit
The Gruber Foundation
The Gruber Foundation (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being VAN LIEW FAMILY FOUNDATION ($45,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $45k
- Net assets
- $249M
What The Gruber Foundation does
Mission
The gruber foundation honors individuals in the fields of cosmology, genetics, neuroscience, justice, and women's rights, whose groundbreaking work provides new models that inspire and enable fundamental shifts in knowledge and culture.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Gruber Foundation ("The Foundation") supports three major initiatives: The Gruber International Prize Program, The Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women's Rights, and the Gruber Science Fellowship program. The Gruber International Prize Program, which awarded $1,000,000 in prizes during the year, recognizes excellence in the fields of Cosmology, Genetics, and Neuroscience. The Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women's Rights is a Yale University program consisting of four core components: 1) the Global Constitutionalism Seminar, 2) the Gruber Distinguished Global Justice and Women's Rights Lectures, 3) the Gruber Global Justice and Women's Rights Fellowships, and 4) the gruber project for global justice and women's rights which provides clinical and experiential learning initiatives at Yale Law School that are consistent with the principles and ideals of the program. The Gruber Science Fellowship program provides annual fellowships to Yale University graduate students studying and conducting research in the basic life sciences, as well as in cosmology and astrophysics. The Foundation provided grants of $4,764,478 to Yale University of which $1,200,000 supported the…
$6,460,845 spentof which $6,079,478 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,460,845.
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 2020 to 2021, from $161M to $223M (+38%).
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.
0% of The Gruber Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of The Gruber 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.
Where its funders are
The Gruber Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Gruber Foundation receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like The Gruber 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 26 related entities
- 3C Corporation · exempt
- 5C Corporation · exempt
- Alumni Fund Association of Yale University · exempt
- Chapel Company · exempt
- Charles A Coffin Memorial Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Gruber 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 The Gruber Foundation?
- The Gruber Foundation (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being VAN LIEW FAMILY FOUNDATION ($45,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Gruber Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $45,000 in grants to The Gruber Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of The Gruber Foundation?
- VAN LIEW FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Gruber Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 1 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