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Delaware Atlantis Foundation at a glance

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Delaware Atlantis 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.

$9.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5.3M
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$9.9MEducation$5.9MPhilanthropy$2.5MEnvironment$600kHuman Services$260kAnimals$50kRecreation & Sports$50kHousing & Shelter$10k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k8 grants · $750k
  • $250k+4 grants · $9.1M
$150,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$213M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEEBE HEALTHCARE MEDICAL FOUNDATION$5,350,000
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$2,351,000
NEMOURS CHILDREN'S HEALTH$800,000
DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$640,700
BLOOD CENTER UNITED$200,000
CHILDREN'S BEACH HOUSE$150,000
DELAWARE TECHNICAL EDUCATIONAL FDN$100,000
LA RED HEALTH CENTER INC$100,000
SUSSEX COUNTY ANIMAL ASSOCIATION$50,000
DELAWARE BOTANIC GARDENS$50,000
LOWER SUSSEX LITTLE LEAGUE$50,000
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS$50,000
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DELAWARE BOTANIC GARDENS: $500k → 10%NEMOURS CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $800k → 10%BLOOD CENTER UNITED: $200k → 14%UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS: $50k → 7%DELAWARE BOTANIC GARDENS: $50k → 10%NEMOURS CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $200k → 10%UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS: $25k → 7%DELAWARE BOTANIC GARDENS: $50k → 10%NEMOURS FUND FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $50k → 10%SUSSEX COUNTY ANIMAL ASSOCIATION: $50k → 10%THE NEMOURS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $50k → 10%LOWER SUSSEX LITTLE LEAGUE: $50k → 10%THE NEMOURS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $50k → 10%LA RED HEALTH CENTER INC: $100k → 10%DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $641k → 10%SUSSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10k → 10%CHILDREN'S BEACH HOUSE: $35k → 10%BEEBE HEALTHCARE MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $5.3M → 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $2.4M → 10%BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $2.0M → 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $2.2M → 10%BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $350k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $485k → 10%BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $275k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $333k → 10%BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $158k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $285k → 10%CHILDREN'S BEACH HOUSE: $150k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $25k → 10%BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $15k → 10%DELAWARE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE: $158k → 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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Delaware Atlantis Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Delaware Atlantis Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 13% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 8 repeat orgs$6.0M to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$11M
$218k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+78%

Still filing today

63%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.8M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPublic BenefitEnvironmentOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $5.7M · revenue +29%
  • BM
    BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +41%
  • DB
    DELAWARE BOTANIC GARDENS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $600k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • DA
    DELAWARE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $158k · revenue +78%
  • NF
    NEMOURS FUND FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • SC
    SUSSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -18%
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 Bioscience Association Inc

To promote and strengthen the bioscience industry in the state of delaware.

Community Improvement
2
Delaware State University

Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…

Education
3
Delaware Valley University

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…

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4
Medical Society of Delaware

To guide, serve and support delaware physicians, promoting the practice and profession of medicine to enhance the health of our communities.

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5
Delaware County Medical Society

Public health awareness, providing day to day assistance with the business of running a private medical practice and advocacy for physicians

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6
Delaware Medical Education Foundation

To improve and expand the continuing medical education program, providing delaware physicians with up-to-the-minute clinical information in the ever-changing field of medical science, to sponsor programs to educate the public on medical…

Health
7
Delaware Health Sciences Alliance Llc

Dhsa aligns resources and efforts to create a unique, broad-based alliance, focused on establishing innovative collaborations among experts in medical education, medical practice, health policy, nursing, workforce development and across…

Health
8
Delaware Center for Health Innovation Inc

The organization develops, facilitates, and oversees the implementation of collaborative efforts aimed at transforming the delivery of health care services in delaware.

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9
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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10
Delaware Health Net Inc

The delaware health net, inc. is a nonprofit organization, whose mission is to assist its member organizations (collaborators) in pursuit of their individual agency missions, enhance and develop clinical and business tools, provide…

Health
11
Delaware County Foundation

Strengthening the community by connecting people through charitable giving

Philanthropy
12
Delaware Center for Justice

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.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $5,719,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWAREBEEBE HEALTHCARE MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $5,350,000 · OtherBEEBE HEALTHCARE MEDICAL FOUNDATIONNEMOURS CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $1,000,000 · OtherNEMOURS CHILDREN'S HEALTH+8 more: $802,500 · Other+8 moreBEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $2,932,500 · HealthBEEBE MEDICAL FOUND…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $200,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED…+1 more: $100,000 · HealthDELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,458,700 · PhilanthropyDELAWARE COMMU…DELAWARE BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $600,000 · EnvironmentUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $75,000 · Public Benefit
Other$12,871,500Health$3,232,500Philanthropy$2,458,700Environment$600,000Public Benefit$75,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $5,719,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $2,932,500 over 5y, 16% of budgetDELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,458,700 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetDELAWARE BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $600,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S BEACH HOUSE INC: $185,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetDELAWARE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE INC: $157,500 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER SUSSEX LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetSUSSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Carl M Freeman Fo…Longwood Foundation I…Delaware Community Fo…Crestlea Foundation I…Marmot FoundationWelfare Foundation IncThe Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Carl M Freeman Foundation IncDE17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Marmot Foundation · Welfare Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Delaware Atlantis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Delaware Atlantis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Delaware Academy of Medicine Inc: 75% of income from government
  • La Red Health Center Inc: 51% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Sussex County Habitat for Humanity: 23% of income from government
  • Delaware Community Foundation Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Children's Beach House Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Delaware Botanic Gardens Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Beebe Medical Foundation: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 17 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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