Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Good Hope Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $56k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,982
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 20
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Good Hope Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $56k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $20k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $28k | 85% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $14k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Acadia | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Lowell Whiteman School | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Forest Society of Maine | $4,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Maine Coast Heritage Trust | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation | $3,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Mount Desert Island Hospital | $2,900 | 3 | 0% |
| College of the Atlantic | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Bar Harbor Food Pantry | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Island Housing Trust Corporation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Acadia | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Lowell Whiteman School | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Forest Society of Maine | $4,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Maine Coast Heritage Trust | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation | $3,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Mount Desert Island Hospital | $2,900 | 3 | 0% |
| College of the Atlantic | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Bar Harbor Food Pantry | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Island Housing Trust Corporation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Island Housing Trust | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Brooks School | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Smile Train Inc | $550 | 2 | 0% |
| Clover Foundation Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Telluride Hospital District | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Buckingham Browne & Nichols School | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Mount Desert Island Historical Society | $350 | 2 | 0% |
| American Physical Society | $300 | 2 | 0% |
| Panorama Global | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Church of the Redeemer | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Maine Island Trail Association | $55 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($41k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Good Hope Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Colket Family Foundation · Janet Stone Jones Foundation · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · Florence V Burden Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About Good Hope Family Foundation
- How much does Good Hope Family Foundation give?
- Good Hope Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $55,537 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 20 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Good Hope Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (30%), Science & Tech (22%), Education (13%).
- Who are Good Hope Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Friends of Acadia ($26k), Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park ($15k), The Lowell Whiteman School ($6k).
- Does Good Hope Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Good Hope Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Good Hope Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Ethel D Colket Foundation, Colket Family Foundation.
- Where is Good Hope Family Foundation based?
- Good Hope Family Foundation is based in PA.
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