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C Northrop & a Marder Pond Fdn

Pittsburgh, PA · EIN 22-6727894. Reported 76 grants totalling $1,808,000 to 29 organizations across tax years 2021-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$20,000median grant
$1,808,000granted, 2021-2023
29organizations funded
85%of grantees funded again the next year
$12.2Massets, 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. C Northrop & a Marder Pond Fdn 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 $20,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$5,000 - $10,000
6 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
34 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
26 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
10 grants

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
American Cancer SocietyWest Palm Beach, FL$150,000332023
Cape Cod Healthcare FoundationHyannis, MA$150,000332023
Dystonia Medical Research FoundationChicago, IL$150,000332023
Housing Assistance CorporationHyannis, MA$120,000332023
Independence HouseHyannis, MA$115,000332023
Liberty HallSouth Dennis, MA$103,500332023
South Dennis Free LibrarySouth Dennis, MA$85,000332023
Children InternationalKansas City, MO$80,000222022
Summit Speech SchoolNew Providence, NJ$75,000332023
America's Vetdogs the K-9 Corps IncSmithtown, NY$73,000332023
Children's Specialized Hospital FoundationMountainside, NJ$70,000332023
Contact USA IncWestfield, NJ$70,000332023
St David's Episcopal Church of YarmouthSouth Yarmouth, MA$70,000332023
Trinitas Health FoundationElizabeth, NJ$65,000332023
Midland Adult Services IncNorth Branch, NJ$60,000332023
Friends of Bass RiverSouth Yarmouth, MA$43,000332023
Your Grandmother's CupboardToms River, NJ$43,000332023
Miracle FlightsLas Vegas, NV$40,000222022
Champ Homes IncHyannis, MA$34,500332023
Eden Autism ServicesPrinceton, NJ$30,000332023
Patient Airlift ServicesFarmingdale, NY$30,000332023
Sage Eldercare IncSummit, NJ$30,000222022
Dental Lifeline NetworkEdison, NJ$23,000332023
Foundation for Morristown Medical CenterMorristown, NJ$20,000222023
Pg Chambers SchoolCedar Knolls, NJ$20,000222022
The Samaritans on Cape Cod and the IslandsFalmouth, MA$20,000222023
Jfk Medical Center FoundationEdison, NJ$18,500112021
St Hubert's Animal Welfare CenterMadison, NJ$12,500222022
Humane Rescue AllianceWashington, DC$7,000112023

27 of 29 (93%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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 85%, across 2 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 31 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
9 grants
Health Care
9 grants
Housing & Shelter
6 grants
Medical Research
3 grants
Education
2 grants
International Affairs
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202128$602,500$20,000
202225$650,000$25,000
202323$555,500$25,000

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. 41% of this one's giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Massachusetts
$741K
New Jersey
$537K
Florida
$150K
Illinois
$150K
New York
$103K
Missouri
$80K
Nevada
$40K
District of Columbia
$7K

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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 $20,000. 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 Massachusetts.
  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 C Northrop & a Marder Pond Fdn's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 500 First Ave P7-Pfsc-03-Z, Pittsburgh, PA, 15219. 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 22-6727894 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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