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Gooding Group Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $10,450 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,300 |
| PENN STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH | $1,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $1,500 |
| THORNE | $1,023 |
| BLESSINGS OF HOPE | $730 |
| FULTON THEATRE | $515 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE | $500 |
| IGLESIA MISIONERA LA SENDA | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
89 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 73 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +32%
- GCGROVE CITY COLLEGE4× · 2017–2020 · $8k · revenue +68%
- MHMILAGRO HOUSE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $5k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- BABETHEL AME CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $15k
- BABETHEL AME CULTURAL CENTERone grant, 2021 · $10k
- LPLONG'S PARK AMPHITHEATER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -13%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The lancaster general health foundation is organized and operated to benefit, perform the functions of, or carry out the purposes of members of the healthcare system of lancaster general health, a non-profit corporation described in…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Provides managerial and financial support to its controlled organizations and is also responsible for undertaking activities designed to advance the general health of the community.
The good samaritan hospital is a tax-exempt organization dedicated to providing high-quality, compassionate healthcare that improves the overall health of the community.
Our mission is who we are and what we do: to provide world class care close to home. our vision is what we aim for to best serve our community: to build a healthier community.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The lancaster chamber of commerce & industry's mission is to create the environment, facilitate partnerships, and lead on issues that elevate business success. the chamber has 5 strategic priorities: public policy, workforce, business…
We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Lincoln Fire Company No 1. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
86 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 86 of the 210 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FULTON THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds LONG'S PARK AMPHITHEATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GROVE CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MILAGRO HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds GOLDEY-BEACOM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LANCASTERHISTORYORG ↗
- Who funds LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NORTH MUSEUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MEN OF IRON ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN FIRE COMPANY NO 1 ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Lancaster County Community Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · High Foundation · The Steinman Foundation · William and Jemima Brossman Charita Charitable Foundation · Ashland Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trust · Ferree Foundation · Fulton Family Foundation · The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Gooding Group Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- LOVE146 Inc — 49% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Goldey-Beacom College — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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