Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Gooding Group Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $543k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 82
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Gooding Group Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $543k | 39% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $39k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $50k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $114k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 68 | $69k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 65 | $61k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 82 | $59k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 59 | $92k | 53% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thaddeus Stevens Foundation | $179,676 | 6 | 5% |
| Elizabethtown College | $13,050 | 6 | 0% |
| Fulton Theatre Company | $11,315 | 5 | 0% |
| Long's Park Amphitheater Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Grove City College | $8,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Lebanon Valley College | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Milagro House Inc | $5,400 | 7 | 0% |
| Lancasterhistoryorg | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Goldey-Beacom College | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lancaster Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 101 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 118 recipients with no EIN on record ($790k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gooding Group 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Gooding Group Foundation
- How much does Gooding Group Foundation give?
- Gooding Group Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $543,342 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 82 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gooding Group Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Health (20%), Arts & Culture (6%).
- Who are Gooding Group Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Thaddeus Stevens Foundation ($180k), Elizabethtown College ($13k), Fulton Theatre Company ($11k).
- Does Gooding Group Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gooding Group Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gooding Group Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lancaster County Community Foundation, Clark Associates Charitable Foundation, High Foundation.
- Where is Gooding Group Foundation based?
- Gooding Group Foundation is based in PA.
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