· Private foundation
Gooding Group Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $267k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROOFING ALLIANCE | $250,000 |
| THADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $67,110 |
| HIGHLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $50,000 |
| LATTA MEMORIAL CHURCH | $15,666 |
| LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| PENN STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| LANCASTER COUNTY EXTRA GIVE | $1,000 |
| LINCOLN FIRE CO 1 | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
92 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 78 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $319k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHADDEUS STEVENS FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +32%
- GCGROVE CITY COLLEGE4× · 2017–2020 · $8k · revenue +68%
- LVLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE4× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +23%
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
The good samaritan hospital is a tax-exempt organization dedicated to providing high-quality, compassionate healthcare that improves the overall health of the community.
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…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
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.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The lancaster chamber of commerce & industry's mission is to create the environment, facilitate partnerships, and lead on issues that elevate business success. the strategic plan is to position lancaster county businesses to thrive. by…
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.
Waynesboro hospital is a regional nonprofit healthcare organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
Gettysburg hospital is a tax-exempt organization dedicated to providing high quality health care services for the people who live, work, travel through, and vacation in adams county, pennsylvania and northern maryland.
How this is measured
89 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 89 of the 219 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MILAGRO HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTERHISTORYORG ↗
- Who funds GOLDEY-BEACOM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds NORTH MUSEUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN FIRE COMPANY NO 1 ↗
- Who funds MEN OF IRON ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gooding Group Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gooding Group Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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