FundersPennsylvania

Cdl Family Foundation

Gibsonia, PA · EIN 87-3885559. Reported 58 grants totalling $3,122,158 to 46 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$17,500median grant
$3,122,158granted, 2021-2024
46organizations funded
50%of grantees funded again the next year
$34.6Massets, 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. Cdl Family Foundation 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 $17,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $200 and the largest $285,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
3 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
10 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
11 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
6 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
10 grants
$100,000 and Up
15 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
Move a Mountain MissionsPittsburgh, PA$472,650332024
Renew the I Do FoundationPittsburgh, PA$450,000332024
Tunnel to TowersPhiladelphia, PA$285,000112024
Tri-Woods FoundationGibsonia, PA$200,000112024
Womens Choice NetworkPittsburgh, PA$200,000112021
Our Lady of Perpetual Help ParishGlenshaw, PA$159,375222024
Network of LifePittsburgh, PA$151,500112024
Ascension PressBaltimore, MD$100,000112021
Franciscan UniversitySteubenville, OH$100,000112024
Susan B Anthony ListArlington, VA$100,000112021
The Center for Medical ProgressIrvine, CA$100,000112021
The Seeds of Faith CampaignDuluth, MN$100,000112024
St Jude Childrens Research HospMemphis, TN$75,000112024
Folds of HonorWexford, PA$63,500222024
College of St Joseph the WorkerSteubenville, OH$50,000112024
Live ActionAlbert Lea, MN$50,000112024
Live ActionArlington, VA$50,000112021
Sisters of LifeSuffern, NY$50,000112024
St Josaphat Eparchy Ukrainian Catholic ChurchCleveland, OH$50,000112023
Students for Life of AmericaFredericksburg, VA$50,000112021
Susan B Anthony Prolife AmericaArlington, VA$50,000112024
Duquesne University of the Holy SpiritPittsburgh, PA$32,800222024
Mary's PlacePittsburgh, PA$25,000112024
The Woodlands FoundationWexford, PA$25,000112024
Variety the Children's CharityWexford, PA$15,500332024
Birthright of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$15,000112024
Pittsburgh Central Catholic High SchoolPittsburgh, PA$15,000112023
LifepacButler, PA$10,200112024
Dry Bones MinistriesVolant, PA$10,000112024
University Christian OutreachEast Lansing, MI$10,000222024
Samaritans PurseBoone, NC$7,000112024
St Anthony School ProgramsWexford, PA$5,470112023
Catholic VoteMerrifield, VA$5,000112024
Frc ActionWashington, DC$5,000112024
Mrs Claus ClubAllison Park, PA$5,000112024
Northern Regional Police Department Community OutreachWexford, PA$5,000112024
Shriners ChildrensTopeka, KS$5,000112024
Wounded Warrior ProjectTopeka, KS$5,000112024
Pine Richland Youth CenterGibsonia, PA$3,400222023
Tash IncPittsburgh, PA$3,000112024
Womens Choice NePittsburgh, PA$2,563112024
Missionary ArtisansGibsonia, PA$2,000112024
Gally Charities IncPittsburgh, PA$1,500222024
Martina Spiritual Renewal CenterPittsburgh, PA$1,000112023
Riding for the Handicapped of Western PennsylvaniaPittsburgh, PA$500112022
People Concerned for the UnbornPittsburgh, PA$200112024

9 of 46 (20%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 50%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. 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 32 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
7 grants
Education
7 grants
Religion
6 grants
Civil Rights
3 grants
Diseases & Disorders
3 grants
Recreation & Sports
2 grants
Youth Development
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20218$1,000,000$100,000
20224$7,600$1,550
202312$476,570$10,150
202434$1,637,988$17,500

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. 69% of this one's giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Pennsylvania
$2.2M
Virginia
$255K
Ohio
$200K
Minnesota
$150K
California
$100K
Maryland
$100K
Tennessee
$75K
New York
$50K

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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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc14 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund14 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc11 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust11 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program9 shared recipientsThe Pittsburgh Foundation8 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $17,500. 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 Pennsylvania.
  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 Cdl Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 180 Wedgewood Drive 800, Gibsonia, PA, 15044. 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 87-3885559 · 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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