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Goedeker Foundation

Sewickley, PA · EIN 25-6565140. Reported 111 grants totalling $484,026 to 51 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$484,026granted, 2021-2025
51recipients, as named on its returns
69%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,554,894assets, 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. Goedeker 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 $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $4,446; the smallest was $100 and the largest $35,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
20 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
66 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
6 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
16 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Saint Bonaventure UniversitySaint Bonaventure, NY$103,250442025
New Brighton Historical SocietyNew Brighton, PA$45,000442025
Tiger Pause Youth MinistryBeaver Falls, PA$38,200552025
St Bonaventure UniversitySt Bonaventure, NY$35,500112021
Neighborhood North Museum of PlayBeaver Falls, PA$30,000332025
Flourish Beaver CountyBeaver Falls, PA$20,000222025
Kent State UniversityKent, OH$18,950442025
Penn State UniversityState College, PA$16,650552025
Slippery Rock UniversitySlippery Rock, PA$13,400552025
St Jude Children's Research HospitalMemphis, TN$13,100112024
St Brownstones UniversityBoston, MA$13,000112023
Community College of Beaver County FoundationMonaca, PA$10,000112021
Greater Boise Aquatic FoundationBoise, ID$10,000112024
Community College of Beaver CountyMonaca, PA$9,516442024
Beaver County Cancer & Heart AssociationMonaca, PA$9,400552025
Carlow UniversityPittsburgh, PA$7,900332025
La Roche UniversityPittsburgh, PA$6,700332025
Beaver County YMCA Endowment FoundationNew Brighton, PA$6,200442025
Duquesne UniversityPittsburgh, PA$6,200332023
Robert Morris UniversityMoon, PA$5,650222025
Thiel CollegeGreenville, PA$5,450222025
Geneva CollegeBeaver Falls, PA$5,100222025
The Beaver County PartnershipBeaver, PA$5,000112021
Case Western Reserve UniversityClevland, OH$4,950222025
Allegheny CollegeMeadville, PA$4,350222022
Mary Queen of Saints Roman Catholic ParishBeaver Falls, PA$4,000222023
United Way of Beaver CountyMonaca, PA$4,000442024
Boston CollegeChestnut Hill, MA$3,200222025
Heritage Valley FoundationBeaver, PA$2,500112023
Masonic CharitiesElizabethtown, PA$2,500112025
New Brighton Public LibraryNew Brighton, PA$2,500442025
Saint Frances Cabrini ChurchAliquippa, PA$2,500112021
Beaver Valley Community Concert AssociationBeaver Falls, PA$2,400222024
Lander UniversityGreenwood, SC$2,350112021
Merrick Art GalleryNew Brighton, PA$2,000332025
University of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$1,500112021
YMCA of Beaver County FoundationNew Brighton, PA$1,500112021
Community College of Allegheny CountyPittsburgh, PA$1,460112021
Seton Hill UniversityGreensburg, PA$1,400112025
Anya Elyse La Mar FoundationPittsburgh, PA$1,000112024
Heritage Valley Health System FoundationBeaver, PA$1,000112021
Twelve Loaves Soup KitchenNew Brighton, PA$1,000222023
Beaver Area JayceesBeaver, PA$900332024
Center Township Fire DepartmentAliquippa, PA$800222023
St Barnabas CharitiesGibsonia, PA$500112024
Twelve Loaves Soup Kitchen and Food PantryNew Brighton, PA$500112025
Center Twp Fire DepartmentAliquippa, PA$300112021
Willie Stargell FoundationWilmington, NC$300112025
Grove CemeteryNew Brighton, PA$250112024
Saint Monica Catholic Academey - Angel FundBeaver Falls, PA$100112022
Wounded Warrior ProjectPittsburgh, PA$100112023

28 of 51 (55%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 69%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 46 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Education
24 grants
Human Services
8 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
5 grants
Arts & Culture
5 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Community Improvement
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202119$81,006$1,500
202218$71,120$1,550
202323$101,700$1,600
202428$118,500$1,650
202523$111,700$3,100

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

58% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Pennsylvania
$279K
New York
$139K
Ohio
$24K
Massachusetts
$16K
Tennessee
$13K
Idaho
$10K
South Carolina
$2K
North Carolina
$300

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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

The Pittsburgh Foundation19 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund16 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc15 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program9 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America9 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  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 Goedeker Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 2232 Masonic Drive, Sewickley, PA, 15143. 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 25-6565140 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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