· Private foundation
Carpenter Foundation Inc
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIANA CARE FOUNDATION | $48,455 |
| TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $30,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% of those 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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE8× · 2018–2025 · $267k · revenue +29%- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $90k · revenue +54%
- DIDFRC INC7× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- AQAugies Quest to Cure ALS Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +36%
- KNKALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +39%
- SSTRIVEone grant, 2018 · $5k
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 delaware center for justice, inc. seeks to ensure an effective, efficient, and equitable system of justice in delaware through advocacy, direct services, research and public education.
Delaware nature society connects people with the natural world to improve our environment through education, advocacy, and conservation.
To lead the state of delaware's economic development efforts.
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…
To aggressively promote investment in muncie-delaware county which will result in the creation and retention of quality job opportunities and enhance the quality of life in our community.
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…
Delaware spca is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty and the encouragement of humane treatment of all animals.
To make a substantial contribution to delaware's journalism community and to the citizens of delaware by delivering original, in-depth, delaware-specific news and commentary from all three counties.
To guide, serve and support delaware physicians, promoting the practice and profession of medicine to enhance the health of our communities.
To promote and strengthen the bioscience industry in the state of delaware.
Leadership delaware, inc. (ldi) recruits outstanding delawareans and prepares them with the knowledge, vision, integrity and networks to significantly impact and transform their communities, and to excel at community, non-profit,…
Amateur youth soccer training and development.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc and the most unlike its peers is Augies Quest to Cure Als Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 23 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 UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds DFRC INC ↗
- Who funds THE TATNALL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PILOT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE WILD LANDS INC ↗
- Who funds Augies Quest to Cure ALS Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP BARNES INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL PARTNERS ↗
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 · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Ederic Foundation Inc · Marmot Foundation · Rencourt Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · The Scooter-Boxie 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 Carpenter Foundation Inc 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.
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc — 33% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Humane Animal Partners — 14% of income from government
- Kalmar Nyckel Foundation — 14% of income from government
- Camp Barnes Inc — 13% of income from government
- Dfrc Inc — 5% of income from government
- Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc — 2% of income from government
- Delaware Hospice Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Pilot School Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- The Tatnall School Inc — 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.
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