The Genuardi Family Foundation seeks to invest in and improve the communities that supported Genuardi Family Markets during the several decades and generations while the Genuardi Family owned this landmark regional business. While the Foundation’s legacy is an outgrowth of the tradition of giving established by its family’s business, neither the Genuardi family nor its Foundation are now associated with Genuardi Family Markets. Its priorities for giving are its own.

The Genuardi Family Foundation supports organizations who meet all of the following requirements:

• Are direct providers of services in the areas of
Culture, Education, Health and Human Services
(see individual sector pages on this website for
additional information on each);
• Have documented 501(c)(3) tax exempt status;
and
• Are based in the Greater Philadelphia area.

Preference will be given to those projects that receive broad-based community support, make use of volunteer labor, and who incur reasonable costs to run the proposed project or program. Grant proposals may request funds for project funding, general operating funding, capacity building, or a combination of these.

Exclusions

The Genuardi Family Foundation does not
generally make grants to:

• Organizations outside the Greater
Philadelphia area
• Capital projects, including equipment purchase
or replacement
• Individuals
• Fraternal and/or civic organizations
• Political candidates or parties
• Political Action Committees (PACs) engaged in
influencing legislation
• Other foundations or organizations which
redistribute resources to beneficiaries of their
own selection, including United Way
• Public radio or television
• General fundraising, annual appeals or
special events
• Endowment drives
• Debt reduction
• Environmental issues or initiatives
• Public, private or parochial schools