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The Goode Family Charitable Foundation

Pittsburgh, PA · EIN 46-2847551. Reported 58 grants totalling $509,300 to 32 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$8,750median grant
$509,300granted, 2021-2024
32organizations funded
57%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,858,901assets, 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. The Goode Family Charitable 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 $8,750. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $2,400 and the largest $30,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
6 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
23 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
28 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant

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
The Progeria Research Foundation IncPeabody, MA$77,500442024
Cmt Research Foundation IncAtlanta, GA$52,500442024
American Red CrossWashington, DC$47,500432024
The Reading TeamNew York, NY$27,500332024
Natnl Org for Rare Disorders IncQuincy, MA$25,000222024
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer FoundationWoodbury, NY$20,000222022
Samaritan's PurseBoone, NC$20,000222024
Arthritis National Research FoundationIrvine, CA$17,500332024
Brunswick Family Assistance Agency IncShallotte, NC$17,500332023
Reach Education IncWashington, DC$17,500432024
The Hole in the Wall Gang Fund IncNew Haven, CT$17,500332024
St Jude Children's Research Hospital IncMemphis, TN$15,000222023
Lung Cancer Research FoundationNew York, NY$12,500112024
Brightfocus FoundationClarksburg, MD$10,000112021
Global GenesAliso Viejo, CA$10,000112021
Lung Cancer Foundation of AmericaNew Ulm, MN$10,000112021
Lung Cancer Research FoudationNew York, NY$10,000112022
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer (lustgarten Foundation)Uniondale, NY$10,000112024
Pittsburgh Youth Leadership IncPittsburgh, PA$10,000112023
Powhatan SchoolBoyce, VA$10,000222024
Sarcoma Foundation of America IncDamascus, MD$10,000112021
University of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$10,000112022
Raising Hands Tutoring IncHighland Park, NJ$8,000222023
The Neighborhood AcademyPittsburgh, PA$7,500112022
American Federation for Aging Research IncNew York, NY$5,000112021
Breakthrough T1DNew York, NY$5,000112024
Brunswick Senior Resources IncShallotte, NC$5,000112023
Louisiana Storm PatrolHammond, LA$5,000112021
The Cajun Navy Relief IncNew Orleans, LA$5,000112021
Greater Burlington YMCABurlington, VT$4,700112024
Gtr Burlington Young Mens ChristBurlington, VT$4,200112023
YMCA Camp AbnakiNorth Hero, VT$2,400112022

14 of 32 (44%) 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 57%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. 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 36 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Medical Research
12 grants
Human Services
12 grants
Diseases & Disorders
4 grants
Education
3 grants
Recreation & Sports
3 grants
Arts & Culture
1 grant
Youth Development
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202113$107,500$10,000
202215$128,900$7,500
202315$125,700$7,500
202415$147,200$10,000

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. 20% 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
$102K
New York
$90K
District of Columbia
$65K
Georgia
$52K
North Carolina
$42K
California
$28K
Pennsylvania
$28K
Maryland
$20K

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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 $8,750. 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 The Goode Family Charitable 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: 300 Fifth Avenue 27TH Floor, Pittsburgh, PA, 15222. 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 46-2847551 · 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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