FundersPennsylvania

Hosfeld R and M K Memorial Ta

Pittsburgh, PA · EIN 25-6377613. Reported 53 grants totalling $219,000 to 23 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,000median grant
$219,000granted, 2021-2024
23organizations funded
79%of grantees funded again the next year
$971,695assets, 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. Hosfeld R and M K Memorial Ta 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 $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $4,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $20,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
40 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
9 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
4 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
Shippensburg Area Little LeagueShippensburg, PA$42,000442024
Friends of Memorial Park PoolShippensburg, PA$30,000222022
Shippensburg Historical SocietyShippensburg, PA$22,000442024
Shippensburg University Fdn IncShippensburg, PA$15,000442024
Vigilant Hose CompanyShippensburg, PA$15,000442024
West End Fire & Rescue CompanyShippensburg, PA$13,000442024
Borough of ShippensburgShippensburg, PA$12,000112021
Cross IncShippensburg, PA$12,000332023
United Way of Shippensburg AreaShippensburg, PA$11,000442024
Shippensburg Community Parks & RecShippensburg, PA$7,000112023
Shippensburg Produce & OutreachShippensburg, PA$7,000442024
Christ Among NeighborsShippensburg, PA$6,000442024
Drew Michael Taylor FoundationShippensburg, PA$6,000222024
Katie's Place of Shippensburg IncShippensburg, PA$5,000332023
Oasis of Love ChurchShippensburg, PA$3,000112024
Spiritrust Lutheran Home Care & HosChambersburg, PA$3,000112021
Shippensburg Kids Events Committee IncShippensburg, PA$2,000112024
Uprise Event LiveShippensburg, PA$2,000112022
Uprise Events LiveShippensburg, PA$2,000112024
Circle of Love Comm Outreach PrograShippensburg, PA$1,000112023
Circle of Love Outreach ProgramShippensburg, PA$1,000112024
Cumberland County Community ConnectionsShippensburg, PA$1,000112024
Shippensburg Area Middle School PTOShippensburg, PA$1,000112024

12 of 23 (52%) 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 79%, across 3 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 17 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Community Improvement
4 grants
Education
4 grants
Religion
4 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
2 grants
Human Services
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202114$90,000$4,500
202212$43,000$2,500
202312$43,000$3,000
202415$43,000$2,000

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

Shippensburg, PA
$216K
Chambersburg, PA
$3K

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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 $3,000. 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 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 Hosfeld R and M K Memorial Ta'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: Po Box 185, Pittsburgh, PA, 15230. 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 25-6377613 · 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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