Groover Labs Inc
Wichita, KS · EIN 84-3484606. Reported 20 grants totalling $182,775 to 20 organizations across tax years 2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Groover Labs Inc, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S30) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 20 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $9,337. Half of what it reported fell between $5,000 and $11,500; the smallest was $3,750 and the largest $19,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toadworx LLC | Derby, KS | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Freeman Constructs Inc | Goddard, KS | $14,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Grace Heritage Farms | Fontana, KS | $14,100 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Deltawerx Inc | Wichita, KS | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Planetary Talent Inc | Wichita, KS | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Chatterbox Studios LLC | Wichita, KS | $11,250 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Brad Zwick Innovation | Wichita, KS | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Proactive Ballistic Systems LLC | South Hutchinson, KS | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lucille Group LLC | Wichita, KS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Ml Navigator Inc | Wichita, KS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Winnovations LLC | Hutchinson, KS | $8,675 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| George Consulting and Engineering | Wichita, KS | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Tacit Technologies LLC | Wichita, KS | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Ilios Aerospace LLC | Wichita, KS | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Chasing Squirrels LLC | Pittsburg, KS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Covalent Construction Solutions | Wichita, KS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Endure Robotics LLC | Wichita, KS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Helten Panacea | Garden Plain, KS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Promax Freight | Wichita, KS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Emporia Main Street Inc | Emporia, KS | $3,750 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Toadworx LLC
SUB-AWARD OF THE ACCEL-KS GRANT FROM THE KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, OFFICE OF INNOVATION. THIS GRANT'S PURPOSE IS TO DRIVE COMMERCIALIZATION, FOSTER NEW STARTUP CREATION, STIMULATE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND GENERATE HIGH-QUALITY JOBS.
Where its money goes
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $9,337 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Kansas.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Groover Labs Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 20 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 334 N St Francis Ave, Wichita, KS, 67202.
EIN 84-3484606 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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