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Paul B Greetin and Beryl S Greetin

Downingtown, PA · EIN 22-3684650. Reported 148 grants totalling $1,946,365 to 48 recipients across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$11,000median grant
$1,946,365granted, 2020-2024
48recipients, as named on its returns
82%of grantees funded again the next year
$9,719,143assets, 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. Paul B Greetin and Beryl S Greetin 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 $11,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $15 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
2 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
14 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
41 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
75 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
15 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

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
The First Presbyterian Church of MorristownMorristown, NJ$130,000552024
United Jewish AppealNew York, NY$125,000552024
Chop Point IncWoolwich, ME$105,000552024
Market Street MissionMorristown, NJ$105,000552024
American Red CrossNew York, NY$100,000552024
Seeing EyeMorristown, NJ$84,500552024
American Cancer SocietyCedar Knolls, NJ$84,000552024
National Multiple Sclerosis SocietyNew York, NY$80,000442024
The First Presbyterian Church of SuccasunnaSuccasunna, NJ$80,000442024
ElwynMedia, PA$75,000332024
WrrapLos Angeles, CA$72,000552024
American Heart AssociationRobbinsville, NJ$70,015552024
Leukemia & Lymphoma SocietyPittsfield, MA$70,000552024
Emory Univ Foundation of LawAtlanta, GA$67,500552024
The Salvation Army of MorristownUnion, NJ$65,000442024
Alzheimers AssociationDenville, NJ$60,000442023
Childhood Leukemia FoundationBrick, NJ$50,000552024
Foundation for Morristown Medical CenterMorristown, NJ$50,000222021
Rutgers School of EngineeringPiscataway, NJ$47,500552024
Foundation for Diabetes ResearchLivingston, NJ$45,000222022
ASPCANew York, NY$37,500552024
UnicefNew York, NY$30,000332024
Lustgarten FoundationWoodbury, NY$27,500442024
Jersey Battered Women SocietyMorristown, NJ$25,000552024
Chabad Torah CenterMorristown, NJ$24,500442024
Foundation for Cooperman Barnabas CenterLivingston, NJ$20,000112022
Holy Name Medical FoundationTeaneck, NJ$20,000112024
Kennedy Krieger InstituteBaltimore, MD$20,000222024
Temple of Beth Israel PaYork, PA$20,000332024
Alzheimer's New JerseyDenville, NJ$15,000112024
Community Food Bank of Nj - North RegionHillside, NJ$15,000332024
Community Food Bank of Nj - South RegionHillside, NJ$15,000332024
Congregation Levi YitzchokMorristown, NJ$15,000332024
Multiple Sclerosis SocietyNew York, NY$15,000112020
Susan G Komen Breast Cancer FoundationDallas, TX$12,500222024
Congregation Levi YitachakMorristown, NJ$12,000222021
American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of ScienceNew York, NY$10,000222021
Cancer Hope NetworkChester, NJ$10,000332024
Doctors Without Borders USANew York, NY$8,000222024
Cheshire Home IncFlorham Park, NJ$7,500222024
Community Food Bank of NjHillside, NJ$5,100112020
Alliance for Cancer Gene TherapyStamford, CT$5,000112024
Chesire HomeFlorham Park, NJ$2,500112020
Rabbinical College of AmericaMorristown, NJ$2,500112024
Smile TrainWashington, DC$2,500112024
UnhcrWashington, DC$2,000112024
CROSSROADS4HOPEBedminster, NJ$1,000112020
Randolph Rescue SquadRandolph, NJ$750112020

36 of 48 (75%) 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 82%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

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 activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 61 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.

Human Services
20 grants
Religion
14 grants
Diseases & Disorders
6 grants
International Affairs
6 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
6 grants
Animal Welfare
5 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Food & Nutrition
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202028$339,850$12,500
202125$466,015$17,500
202230$376,000$12,500
202328$361,500$12,500
202437$403,000$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

55% of its giving went to organizations in New Jersey. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

New Jersey
$1.1M
New York
$433K
Maine
$105K
Pennsylvania
$95K
California
$72K
Massachusetts
$70K
Georgia
$68K
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 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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund11 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc11 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc10 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America9 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program7 shared recipientsCommunity Foundation of New Jersey6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $11,000. 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 New Jersey.
  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 Paul B Greetin and Beryl S Greetin's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). 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: 713 Appaloosa Rd, Downingtown, PA, 19335. 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 22-3684650 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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