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Carolyn S & Donald F Obrecht Foundation at a glance

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Carolyn S & Donald F Obrecht 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.

$583k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$180k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$1.0MEducation$866kHealth$810kEnvironment$159kArts & Culture$153kEmployment$71kPublic Safety & Disaster$67kRecreation & Sports$61kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $164k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $395k
$17,100
Median grant
7
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAT CARE DURANGO$180,000
BABY SHANELOVING MEMORY OF RYAN ENN$65,000
IRVINE NATURE CENTER$50,000
BEEBE MEDICAL FDN$50,000
THE ST PAUL'S SCHOOLS$50,000
GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION$27,900
GBMC HEALTHCARE$25,000
JRODSTRONG GO FUND ME$25,000
DENISON UNIVERSITY$25,000
AUGIE'S QUEST$17,100
THERE GOES MY HERO$12,500
ST ANNE'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$11,000
PICKFORD FILM CENTER$10,000
ANIMAS BOOSTER CLUB$10,000
LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MATER DEI HIGH SCHOOL: $20k → 10%JRODSTRONG GO FUND ME: $70k → 14%PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS AT IMMOKALEE: $25k → 10%CIMARRON MIDDLE SCHOOL: $20k → 3%THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $25k → 9%CAT CARE DURANGO: $180k → 12%DENISON UNIVERSITY: $25k → 10%ST ANNE'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $21k → 6%OLDFIELDS SCHOOL: $50k → 11%BABY SHANELOVING MEMORY OF RYAN ENN: $65k → 14%CAT CARE DURANGO: $150k → 12%DENISON UNIVERSITY: $25k → 10%OLDFIELDS SCHOOL: $50k → 11%JRODSTRONG GO FUND ME: $25k → 14%CAT CARE DURANGO: $150k → 12%DENISON UNIVERSITY: $25k → 10%THE BOYS LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND: $40k → 19%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION DELAWARE CH: $25k → 22%BABY SHANE'S MEDICAL GOFUNDME: $25k → 14%DOGSTER'S SPAY AND NEUTER PROGRAM: $55k → 12%THE BOYS LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND: $38k → 19%BE FIT BE ABLE FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%THE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND: $26k → 19%DOGSTER'S SPAY AND NEUTER PROGRAM: $50k → 12%THE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MSRYLAND: $25k → 19%DOGSTER'S SPAY AND NEUTER PROGRAM: $50k → 12%DOGSTER'S SPAY AND NEUTER PROGRAM: $50k → 12%BEEBE MEDICAL FDN: $50k → 10%DOGSTER'S SPAY AND NEUTER PROGRAM: $45k → 12%BEEBE MEDICAL FDN: $50k → 10%PARKER'S ANIMAL RESCUE: $25k → 12%GBMC BERMAN CANCER CENTER: $25k → 11%BEEBE MEDICAL FDN: $50k → 10%IAM MUSIC INSTITUTE: $25k → 12%BEEBE MEDICAL FDN: $50k → 10%GBMC HEALTHCARE: $25k → 11%PAUL KARES INC: $30k → 10%GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION: $28k → 10%GBMC HEALTHCARE: $25k → 11%THE LEWES HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25k → 10%PARKINSON'S ED AND SUPPORT GROUP OF SUSEX COUNTY: $25k → 10%KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE: $25k → 19%LEWES HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25k → 10%KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE: $25k → 19%IRVINE NATURE CENTER: $50k → 11%IRVINE NATURE CENTER: $25k → 11%IRVINE NATURE CENTER: $25k → 11%REHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $30k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
WI
NY
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
HI
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 38 repeat orgs$675k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
49

Total granted

$2.6M
$576k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+43%

Still filing today

61%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CC
    Cat Care Durango
    3× · 2023–2025 · $480k · revenue +25% · 46% of their budget
  • DS
    Dogsters Spay and Neuter
    6× · 2017–2022 · $270k · revenue +359% · 31% of their budget
  • BM
    BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $210k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • BF
    BE FIT BE ABLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • RB
    REHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • IM
    IAM MUSIC INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc

The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.

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2
Delaware Nature Society Inc

Delaware nature society connects people with the natural world to improve our environment through education, advocacy, and conservation.

Environment
3
Adams County Pet Rescue

Rescue, care, and find homes for abandoned and/or abused animals.

Animals
4
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
5
Dove Lewis Emergency Animal Hospital Inc

Founded in 1973, dove lewis emergency animal hospital, inc. (dovelewis) is one of the premier veterinary medical service organizations in the us and the only 24/7 not-for-profit animal emergency, critical care, and specialty hospital in…

Animals
6
Delaware Valley Golden Retriever

Delaware valley golden retriever rescue provides new beginnings for displaced golden retrievers, and other golden-hearted dogs, along with a full array of adoptive and educational support for the adopters and broader community.

Animals
7
Delaware Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Delaware spca is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty and the encouragement of humane treatment of all animals.

Animals
8
Brighter Days Dog Rescue

Brighter days dog rescue conducts rescues of animals that have fallen victim of abuse and natural disaster creating public awareness of animal suffering and trains and assesses animal shelters, professionals and volunteers.

Animals
9
Danbury Animal Welfare Society

Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…

Animals
10
Connecticut Humane Society

The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.

Animals
11
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
12
Loving All Animals Inc

To maximize programs intended to stop killing of adoptable animals.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dogsters Spay and Neuter. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 94 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
34/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ST PAULS SCHOOLS INC: $250,000 · OtherTHE ST PAULS SCHOOLS INCJRODSTRONG GO FUND ME: $95,000 · OtherJRODSTRONG GO FUND MEBABY SHANELOVING MEMORY OF RYAN ENN: $65,000 · OtherPAUL KARES INC: $61,000 · OtherCAT CARE TNR OF SW COLORADO: $60,000 · OtherBE FIT BE ABLE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherMATER DEI HIGH SCHOOL ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF ORANGE: $50,000 · OtherKENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · Other+50 more: $617,750 · Other+50 moreCat Care Durango: $480,000 · AnimalsCat Care DurangoDogsters Spay and Neuter: $270,000 · AnimalsDogsters Spay and NeuterTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $45,000 · Animals+6 more: $70,000 · Animals+6 moreTHE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC: $160,830 · EducationTHE BOYS' LATI…OLDFIELDS SCHOOL INC: $141,500 · EducationOLDFIELDS SCHO…DENISON UNIVERSITY: $96,000 · EducationDENISON UNIVER…MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $16,000 · Education+4 more: $30,500 · Education+4 moreBEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $210,000 · HealthBEEBE MEDICAL…THERE GOES MY HERO INC: $52,500 · HealthTHERE GOES MY…GBMC HEALTHCARE INC: $50,000 · HealthGBMC HEALTHCA…PARKINSONS EDUCATION & SUPPORT GROUP OF SUSSEX COUNTY: $45,000 · HealthPARKINSONS ED…Augies Quest to Cure ALS Inc: $17,100 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 · Health+2 more: $20,000 · HealthIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC: $122,500 · EnvironmentTHE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION: $45,900 · EnvironmentDELAWARE RIVER & BAY LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Environment+2 more: $7,500 · EnvironmentTHE LEWES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $50,000 · Arts & CulturePICKFORD FILM CENTER: $40,000 · Arts & CultureOVERFALLS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $37,000 · Food & NutritionSHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionTHE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE: $2,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,298,750Animals$865,000Education$444,830Health$409,600Environment$195,900Arts & Culture$105,000Food & Nutrition$49,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCat Care Durango: $480,000 over 3y, 46% of budgetDogsters Spay and Neuter: $270,000 over 6y, 31% of budgetBEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $210,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC: $160,830 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOLDFIELDS SCHOOL INC: $141,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC: $122,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $96,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL KARES INC: $61,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetTHERE GOES MY HERO INC: $52,500 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetTHE LEWES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetGBMC HEALTHCARE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION: $45,900 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSONS EDUCATION & SUPPORT GROUP OF SUSSEX COUNTY: $45,000 over 3y, 48% of budgetPICKFORD FILM CENTER: $40,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $37,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetParker's Animal Rescue: $25,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetANNIES ORPHANS: $20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetDELAWARE RIVER & BAY LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOVERFALLS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEWES PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $14,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetULMAN FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEWES FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $11,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSpring Creek Horse Rescue: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCREATIVE COASTAL CONNECTIONS CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetDEFENDERS OF ANIMAL RIGHTS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S BEACH HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRASS ROOTS RESCUE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP BARNES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPHOENIX WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Cat Care Durango ↗
  • Who funds Dogsters Spay and Neuter ↗
  • Who funds BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds OLDFIELDS SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PAUL KARES INC ↗
  • Who funds THERE GOES MY HERO INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LEWES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds GBMC HEALTHCARE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSONS EDUCATION & SUPPORT GROUP OF SUSSEX COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds PICKFORD FILM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
  • Who funds Parker's Animal Rescue ↗
  • Who funds ANNIES ORPHANS ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE RIVER & BAY LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Augies Quest to Cure ALS Inc ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Baltimore Community F…Delaware Community Fo…Red Wagon Calagione F…The Carl M Freeman Fo…The United Way of Cen…France-Merrick Founda…The Ma-Ran FoundationDelaware Humanities C…Mary Jean and Oliver …Longwood Foundation I…T Rowe Price Program …Baltimore Educational…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD28× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Red Wagon Calagione Family Foundation F/K/A Beer & Benevolence Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Ma-Ran Foundation · Delaware Humanities Council · Mary Jean and Oliver Travers Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Carolyn S & Donald F Obrecht Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carolyn S & Donald F Obrecht Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company Inc: 64% of income from government
  • Lewes Fire Department Inc: 41% of income from government
  • Lewes Public Library Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Food Bank of Delaware Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Delaware Community Foundation Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Camp Barnes Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Children's Beach House Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Lewes Historical Society Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Beebe Medical Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • The Greater Lewes Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Mcdonogh School Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 94 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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