FundersPennsylvania

Paul B Greetin and Beryl S Greetin

Downingtown, PA · EIN 22-3684650. Reported 111 grants totalling $1,543,365 to 42 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$15,000median grant
$1,543,365granted, 2020-2023
42organizations funded
80%of grantees funded again the next year
$9,414,731assets, 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. Paul B Greetin and Beryl S Greetin 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 $15,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $15 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
2 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
8 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
29 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
58 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
13 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

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
The First Presbyterian Church of MorristownMorristown, NJ$110,000442023
United Jewish AppealNew York, NY$105,000442023
Market Street MissionMorristown, NJ$90,000442023
Chop Point IncWoolwich, ME$85,000442023
American Red CrossNew York, NY$80,000442023
National Multiple Sclerosis SocietyNew York, NY$65,000332023
American Cancer SocietyCedar Knolls, NJ$63,000442023
Emory Univ Foundation of LawAtlanta, GA$62,500442023
Alzheimers AssociationDenville, NJ$60,000442023
Leukemia & Lymphoma SocietyPittsfield, MA$60,000442023
The First Presbyterian Church of SuccasunnaSuccasunna, NJ$60,000332023
WrrapLos Angeles, CA$60,000442023
Seeing EyeMorristown, NJ$59,500442023
American Heart AssociationRobbinsville, NJ$55,015442023
ElwynMedia, PA$50,000222023
Foundation for Morristown Medical CenterMorristown, NJ$50,000222021
The Salvation Army of MorristownUnion, NJ$50,000332023
Foundation for Diabetes ResearchLivingston, NJ$45,000222022
Childhood Leukemia FoundationBrick, NJ$40,000442023
Rutgers School of EngineeringPiscataway, NJ$37,500442023
ASPCANew York, NY$30,000442023
Foundation for Cooperman Barnabas CenterLivingston, NJ$20,000112022
Jersey Battered Women SocietyMorristown, NJ$20,000442023
Lustgarten FoundationWoodbury, NY$20,000332023
UnicefNew York, NY$20,000222023
Temple of Beth Israel PaYork, PA$17,500222023
Chabad Torah CenterMorristown, NJ$17,000332022
Kennedy Krieger InstituteBaltimore, MD$15,000112021
Multiple Sclerosis SocietyNew York, NY$15,000112020
Congregation Levi YitachakMorristown, NJ$12,000222021
American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of ScienceNew York, NY$10,000222021
Community Food Bank of Nj - North RegionHillside, NJ$10,000222023
Community Food Bank of Nj - South RegionHillside, NJ$10,000222023
Congregation Levi YitzchokMorristown, NJ$10,000222023
Cancer Hope NetworkChester, NJ$7,500222022
Community Food Bank of NjHillside, NJ$5,100112020
Doctors Without Borders USANew York, NY$5,000112023
Susan G Komen Breast Cancer FoundationDallas, TX$5,000112023
Cheshire Home IncFlorham Park, NJ$2,500112022
Chesire HomeFlorham Park, NJ$2,500112020
CROSSROADS4HOPEBedminster, NJ$1,000112020
Randolph Rescue SquadRandolph, NJ$750112020

32 of 42 (76%) 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 80%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. 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 the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 45 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
15 grants
Religion
11 grants
Diseases & Disorders
5 grants
Animal Welfare
4 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 grants
International Affairs
3 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Food & Nutrition
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202028$339,850$12,500
202125$466,015$17,500
202230$376,000$12,500
202328$361,500$12,500

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. 54% of this one's giving went to organizations in New Jersey. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New Jersey
$838K
New York
$350K
Maine
$85K
Pennsylvania
$68K
Georgia
$62K
Massachusetts
$60K
California
$60K
Maryland
$15K

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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.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $15,000. 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 New Jersey.
  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 Paul B Greetin and Beryl S Greetin's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 713 Appaloosa Rd, Downingtown, PA, 19335. 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 22-3684650 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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