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Christiana 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.

$90k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$150kHealth$110kHuman Services$100kEducation$60kHousing & Shelter$30k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$183k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWEST HARVEST$15,000
BALLARD FOOD BANK$15,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN WASHINGTON$10,000
CASA DE LOS NINOS$10,000
EL RIO HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION$10,000
RAVENSWOOD FAMILY HEALTH NETWORK$6,000
EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION$6,000
ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES$6,000
EAST PALO ALTO CHARTER SCHOOL$6,000
LIFEMOVES$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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CASA DE LOS NINOS: $10k → 15%LIFEMOVES: $6k → 8%BALLARD FOOD BANK: $15k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN WASHINGTON: $10k → 12%CASA DE LOS NINOS: $10k → 15%LIFEMOVES: $6k → 8%BALLARD FOOD BANK: $15k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN WASHINGTON: $10k → 12%CASA DE LOS NINOS: $10k → 15%LIFEMOVES: $6k → 8%BALLARD FOOD BANK: $15k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN WASHINGTON: $10k → 12%CASA DE LOS NINOS: $10k → 15%LIFEMOVES: $6k → 8%BALLARD FOOD BANK: $15k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN WASHINGTON: $10k → 12%CASA DE LOS NINOS: $10k → 15%LIFEMOVES: $6k → 8%BALLARD FOOD BANK: $15k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN WASHINGTON: $10k → 12%EL RIO HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%NORTHWEST HARVEST: $15k → 9%EL RIO HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%RAVENSWOOD FAMILY HEALTH NETWORK: $6k → 8%NORTHWEST HARVEST: $15k → 9%EL RIO HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%EAST PALO ALTO CHARTER SCHOOL: $6k → 8%NORTHWEST HARVEST: $15k → 9%EL RIO HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%NORTHWEST HARVEST: $15k → 9%EL RIO HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%RAVENSWOOD FAMILY HEALTH NETWORK: $6k → 8%NORTHWEST HARVEST: $15k → 9%EAST PALO ALTO CHARTER SCHOOL: $6k → 8%EAST PALO ALTO CHARTER SCHOOL: $6k → 8%RAVENSWOOD FAMILY HEALTH NETWORK: $6k → 8%RAVENSWOOD FAMILY HEALTH NETWORK: $6k → 8%EAST PALO ALTO CHARTER SCHOOL: $6k → 8%EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%RAVENSWOOD FAMILY HEALTH NETWORK: $6k → 8%EAST PALO ALTO CHARTER SCHOOL: $6k → 8%EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES: $6k → 8%ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES: $6k → 8%ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES: $6k → 8%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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$450k · 10 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
0

Total granted

$450k
$0

Still filing today

80%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • BALLARD FOOD BANK
    5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +22%
  • ER
    EL RIO FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +413%
  • AC
    ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES
    5× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +27%

Funded once

    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
    Sutter Bay Hospitals

    MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

    Health
    2
    Community Health Center of Snohomish County

    Community health center of snohomish county (chc) provides our diverse communities with access to high quality, affordable primary health care.

    Health
    3
    Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

    To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.

    Food & Nutrition
    4
    Southern California University of Health Sciences

    The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

    Education
    5
    El Concilio California

    Empowering diverse communities in california's central valley.

    Human Services
    6
    Instituto Familiar De La Raza

    Instituto provides hiv related services and social service including health promotion, education, prevention, early intervention, case management and clinical and artistic mentoring services, psychological and psychiatric interventions as…

    —
    7
    Public Health Foundation Enterprises Inc

    To enhance the health, wellness, and resilience of every community we serve - see schedule o for more details

    —
    8
    The Children's Clinic 'Serving Children and Their Families'

    TCC Family Health mission is to provide innovative, integrated, quality health care that will contribute to a healthy community, focusing on those in need and working with patients and the community as partners in their overall well-being.

    —
    9
    Native American Health Center Inc

    Native American Health Center provides a continuum of medical, dental and behavioral health care, culturally responsive social and health programs and Women, Infants and Children (WIC) programs as well as other healthcare services,…

    —
    10
    Sea Mar Community Health Centers

    Sea mar community health centers is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational, and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to latinos.

    Health
    11
    Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

    Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

    Health
    12
    Homeless Childrens Network

    To provide direct mental health services, psychotherapy, and counseling to homeless families in San Francisco, CA and in particular to children of such families, to provide referral services for such families and their children to other…

    Human Services
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa De Los Ninos; the most unlike its peers is Ballard Food Bank. 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

    8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    1
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    8/8
    Grantees still filing
    5/8
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    BALLARD FOOD BANK: $75,000 · OtherBALLARD FOOD BANKNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $75,000 · OtherNORTHWEST HARVEST EMMCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN WASHINGTON: $50,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN WASHINGTONLIFEMOVES: $30,000 · OtherLIFEMOVESEAST PALO ALTO CHARTER SCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherEAST PALO ALTO CHARTER SCHOOLADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES: $30,000 · HealthADOLESCENT COUN…South County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center: $30,000 · HealthSouth County Co…CASA DE LOS NINOS: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentCASA DE LOS …EL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyEL RIO FOUND…EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Education
    Other$260,000Health$60,000Youth Development$50,000Philanthropy$50,000Education$30,000

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

    25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBALLARD FOOD BANK: $75,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCASA DE LOS NINOS: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES: $30,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSouth County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $30,000 over 5y, 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 BALLARD FOOD BANK ↗
    • Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
    • Who funds CASA DE LOS NINOS ↗
    • Who funds EL RIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
    • Who funds ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES ↗
    • Who funds South County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center ↗
    • Who funds EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
    • Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗

    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.

    Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

    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 Christiana Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christiana Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
      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.
      05Through Plinth

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      How do I get to Christiana Foundation Inc?

      Find your warmest path to Christiana Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

      Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

      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 10 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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