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Ryan Lee Mohn Memorial Foundation

Steelton, PA · EIN 20-2338586. Reported 43 grants totalling $26,975 to 25 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$500median grant
$26,975granted, 2021-2025
25recipients, as named on its returns
56%of grantees funded again the next year
$248,635assets, 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. Ryan Lee Mohn Memorial 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 $500. Half of everything it gave fell between $300 and $1,000; the smallest was $25 and the largest $3,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
31 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
12 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
Steelton-Highspire High SchoolSteelton, PA$5,000442025
Samaritan's PurseBoone, NC$4,500442024
American Legion RidersHarrisburg, PA$2,500552025
The Caring PlaceLemoyne, PA$2,500552025
Als AssociationWashington, DC$1,000112023
American Red CrossMiami, FL$1,000112021
Ashray Charities IncDayton, NJ$1,000222025
Blessed and AppreciativeHarrisburg, PA$1,000112021
Convoy of HopeSpringfield, MO$1,000112022
Intl Fellowship of Christians & JewsChicago, IL$1,000112023
Medards HouseNew Cumberland, PA$1,000112021
Salvation ArmyHarrisburg, PA$1,000112025
Pulmonary Fibrosis FoundationChicago, IL$600222023
I Am Doing It Gioblastoma Brain CancerElizabethtown, PA$500112021
Operation Blessing Disaster ReliefVirginia Beach, VA$500112022
Salvation ArmyToronto$500112022
Steelton Fire DepartmentSteelton, PA$500112024
Gift of Life Howie's HousePhiladelphia, PA$300112025
Kids Trust (run on the Roof)Harrisburg, PA$300112025
Pan HarmoniaAsheville, NC$300112022
Pulmonary FibrosisChicago, IL$300112025
Randis House of AngelsCamp Hill, PA$300332025
YMCAHarrisburg, PA$250112024
Randi's House of AngelsHarrisburg, PA$100112021
Centenary Um ChurchSteelton, PA$25112021

7 of 25 (28%) 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 56%, 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.

Plus 26 grants to individuals totalling $49,000 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 13 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
4 grants
Diseases & Disorders
3 grants
International Affairs
1 grant
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
1 grant
Arts & Culture
1 grant
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant
Youth Development
1 grant
Health Care
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202110$7,125$500
20228$4,600$500
20238$4,900$500
20248$3,850$500
20259$6,500$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

57% 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
$15K
North Carolina
$5K
Illinois
$2K
District of Columbia
$1K
New Jersey
$1K
Missouri
$1K
Florida
$1K
Virginia
$500

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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 Fund5 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc5 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc5 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program5 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America5 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $500. 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 Ryan Lee Mohn Memorial 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: 529 Pine Street, Steelton, PA, 17113. 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 20-2338586 · 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.

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