· Private foundation
C E Bennett Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $173k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $321k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DELAWARE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $100,000 |
| KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE | $80,000 |
| SILVERSIDE CHURCH | $79,000 |
| DELAWARE ART MUSEUM | $61,650 |
| BRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE | $42,000 |
| ABC LAB (UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE) | $35,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE | $27,000 |
| JANUS SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $16,800 |
| COLGATE ROCHESTER CROZER DIVINITY SCHOOL | $16,650 |
| DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE | $15,000 |
| BRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA | $10,400 |
| WHYY | $10,000 |
| KENNETT LIBRARY | $7,500 |
| FRIENDSHIP HOUSE | $7,000 |
| CAMP DREAM CATCHER | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- DSDELAWARE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +24%
- DMDELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $241k · revenue +2%
- DADELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC3× · 2023–2025 · $189k · revenue +24%
Funded once
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -23%
OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +67%- KFKENNETT FRIENDS HOMEone grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history and technology of delaware and the delmarva peninsula's farm life/culture and to offer public education programs and services related to aspects of the…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Delaware nature society connects people with the natural world to improve our environment through education, advocacy, and conservation.
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
Acquire and preserve property and information of historic value and/or interest concerning delaware county, pennsylvania. the society also operates a research library and museum.
Delaware city public library's mission is to create and promote educational, recreational, and cultural enrichment, and provide community members of all ages with free access to the resources and tools they need to thrive in the 21st…
The fort wayne museum of art will collect, preserve and present american and related art to engage and educate broad and diverse audiences throughout the region and add value to their lives.
The mission of the franklin county library system is to enrich the lives of the residents of the region through access to materials, information, and services imparting the knowledge, experience, and wisdom of others, through qualified…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Provide relevant educational and entertaining opportunities within the region that exceed customer expectations, while preserving our community's vibrant cultural history.
To promote and strengthen the bioscience industry in the state of delaware.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Bible Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DELAWARE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE JANUS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds CAMP DREAMCATCHER ↗
- Who funds BRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA ↗
- Who funds KENNETT LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation · Forney Family Foundation Inc · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Chester County Community Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Nyssa Foundation · The Starrett Foundation · The Dansko Foundation Inc · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Rencourt Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization C E Bennett Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Delaware Symphony Association Inc — 11% of income from government
- Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc — 2% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.