The Grove Foundation is a private foundation established by the former CEO of Intel Corporation, Andrew Grove. [1] The foundation is primarily a grantmaking organization[2] and makes millions of dollars in grants annually to many organizations, including funding many of the nation’s most notable lef- 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]