FundersPennsylvania

Goedeker Foundation

Sewickley, PA · EIN 25-6565140. Reported 88 grants totalling $372,326 to 47 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,600median grant
$372,326granted, 2021-2024
47organizations funded
70%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,350,550assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Goedeker Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,600. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $4,350; the smallest was $100 and the largest $35,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
16 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
53 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
12 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Saint Bonaventure UniversitySaint Bonaventure, NY$77,250332024
St Bonaventure UniversitySt Bonaventure, NY$35,500112021
New Brighton Historical SocietyNew Brighton, PA$35,000332024
Tiger Pause Youth MinistryBeaver Falls, PA$28,200442024
Neighborhood North Museum of PlayBeaver Falls, PA$20,000222024
Kent State UniversityKent, OH$13,450332024
St Jude Children's Research HospitalMemphis, TN$13,100112024
St Brownstones UniversityBoston, MA$13,000112023
Penn State UniversityState College, PA$11,800442024
Slippery Rock UniversitySlippery Rock, PA$11,150442024
Community College of Beaver County FoundationMonaca, PA$10,000112021
Flourish Beaver CountyBeaver Falls, PA$10,000112024
Greater Boise Aquatic FoundationBoise, ID$10,000112024
Community College of Beaver CountyMonaca, PA$9,516442024
Beaver County Cancer & Heart AssociationMonaca, PA$6,300442024
Duquesne UniversityPittsburgh, PA$6,200332023
The Beaver County PartnershipBeaver, PA$5,000112021
Beaver County YMCA Endowment FoundationNew Brighton, PA$4,700332024
Carlow UniversityPittsburgh, PA$4,600222024
Allegheny CollegeMeadville, PA$4,350222022
Mary Queen of Saints Roman Catholic ParishBeaver Falls, PA$4,000222023
United Way of Beaver CountyMonaca, PA$4,000442024
La Roche UniversityPittsburgh, PA$3,850222024
Thiel CollegeGreenville, PA$2,600112024
Heritage Valley FoundationBeaver, PA$2,500112023
Saint Frances Cabrini ChurchAliquippa, PA$2,500112021
Beaver Valley Community Concert AssociationBeaver Falls, PA$2,400222024
Lander UniversityGreenwood, SC$2,350112021
New Brighton Public LibraryNew Brighton, PA$2,000332024
Case Western Reserve UniversityClevland, OH$1,600112024
Merrick Art GalleryNew Brighton, PA$1,500222024
University of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$1,500112021
YMCA of Beaver County FoundationNew Brighton, PA$1,500112021
Community College of Allegheny CountyPittsburgh, PA$1,460112021
Geneva CollegeBeaver Falls, PA$1,250112024
Robert Morris UniversityMoon, PA$1,250112024
Anya Elyse La Mar FoundationPittsburgh, PA$1,000112024
Boston CollegeChestnut Hill, MA$1,000112024
Heritage Valley Health System FoundationBeaver, PA$1,000112021
Twelve Loaves Soup KitchenNew Brighton, PA$1,000222023
Beaver Area JayceesBeaver, PA$900332024
Center Township Fire DepartmentAliquippa, PA$800222023
St Barnabas CharitiesGibsonia, PA$500112024
Center Twp Fire DepartmentAliquippa, PA$300112021
Grove CemeteryNew Brighton, PA$250112024
Saint Monica Catholic Academey - Angel FundBeaver Falls, PA$100112022
Wounded Warrior ProjectPittsburgh, PA$100112023

22 of 47 (47%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 70%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 35 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
17 grants
Human Services
7 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 grants
Arts & Culture
4 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Community Improvement
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202119$81,006$1,500
202218$71,120$1,550
202323$101,700$1,600
202428$118,500$1,650

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 55% of this one's giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Pennsylvania
$205K
New York
$113K
Ohio
$15K
Massachusetts
$14K
Tennessee
$13K
Idaho
$10K
South Carolina
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

The Pittsburgh Foundation17 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund13 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc12 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsThe Blackbaud Giving Fund8 shared recipientsOrris C&b Dewey Hirtzel Memorial Fd8 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,600. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Pennsylvania.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Goedeker Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 2232 Masonic Drive, Sewickley, PA, 15143. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 25-6565140 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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