The Grove Foundation is a private foundation established by the former CEO of Intel Corporation, Andrew Grove. ¹ The foundation is primarily a grantmaking organization² and makes millions of dollars in grants annually to many organizations, including funding many of the nation’s most notable left-leaning groups such as the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and Everytown for Gun Safety. ³

The Packard Foundation, a prominent left-leaning foundation, has provided funding to the Grove Foundation. ⁴ The group also has a lobbying and election-advocacy arm, the Grove Action Fund. ⁵

Background

Andrew S. Grove was the longtime chief executive and chairman of Intel Corporation. ⁶ His foundation is the founding supporter of the International Rescue Committee’s Pathways to Citizenship program. ⁷ He donated $26 dollars to the City College of New York, which was at the time the largest gift the college had ever received. ⁸ Grove died on March 21, 2016. ⁹

Grantmaking

The Grove Foundation is a major grantmaking organization with assets totaling over $100 million. In 2017, the Grove Foundation dispersed over $19 million. The Grove Foundation supports a wide range of left-leaning groups and causes including affirmative action, expansionist immigration policy, environmentalist activism, gun control, and abortion. ¹⁰ Grant recipients include Center for Popular Democracy, Borealis Philanthropy, National Immigration Law Center, NEO Philanthropy, Southern Poverty Law Center, the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and Everytown for Gun Safety. ¹¹

Outside Funding

While most of the Grove Foundation’s In 2015, 2017, and 2019 the Grove Foundation received grants from the left leaning David and Lucile Packard Foundation. ¹² The Packard Foundation supports left-leaning advocacy charities, including funding environmentalist groups that work on policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and ensuring women have access to abortion and contraception. ¹³ The Packard Foundation grants to the Grove Foundation were for $46,800 in 2015, $600,000 in 2017, and $600,000 in 2019, all to support the Working to Institutionalize Sex Education (WISE) initiative. ¹⁴ WISE is a sex education initiative that promotes teaching “comprehensive” sex education including topics such as contraception, gender identity and expression, sexually-transmitted infections, and sexual identity and orientation. ¹⁵

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