· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $164k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $395k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAT CARE DURANGO | $180,000 |
| BABY SHANELOVING MEMORY OF RYAN ENN | $65,000 |
| THE ST PAUL'S SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| BEEBE MEDICAL FDN | $50,000 |
| IRVINE NATURE CENTER | $50,000 |
| GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION | $27,900 |
| DENISON UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| GBMC HEALTHCARE | $25,000 |
| JRODSTRONG GO FUND ME | $25,000 |
| AUGIE'S QUEST | $17,100 |
| THERE GOES MY HERO | $12,500 |
| ST ANNE'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| ANIMAS BOOSTER CLUB | $10,000 |
| PICKFORD FILM CENTER | $10,000 |
| LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- CCCat Care Durango3× · 2023–2025 · $480k · revenue +25% · 46% of their budget
- DSDogsters Spay and Neuter6× · 2017–2022 · $270k · revenue +167% · 31% of their budget
- BMBEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $210k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- BFBE FIT BE ABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $50k
- RBREHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPTone grant, 2021 · $30k
- IMIAM MUSIC INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $25k
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 museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
Delaware nature society connects people with the natural world to improve our environment through education, advocacy, and conservation.
Rescue, care, and find homes for abandoned and/or abused animals.
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…
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…
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.
Delaware spca is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty and the encouragement of humane treatment of all animals.
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.
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…
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.
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.
To maximize programs intended to stop killing of adoptable animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Community Foundation Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 23% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 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. 45 of the 94 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 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 PARKINSONS EDUCATION & SUPPORT GROUP OF SUSSEX COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Carolyn S & Donald F Obrecht 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.
- 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
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.