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Delaware Bar Foundation
The DELAWARE BAR FOUNDATION's mission is improving the administration of justice in delaware by: - providing funding for legal services for the poor - promoting study and research in the field of law - fostering knowledge of citizenship rights and responsibilities - enhancing public respect for the rule of law
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 $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $330k
- $250k+4 grants · $4.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY LEGAL AID | $2,227,822 |
| LEGAL SERVICES OF DELAWARE | $980,000 |
| DELAWARE VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES | $632,744 |
| COMMUNITY LEGAL AID | $270,000 |
| LEGAL SERVICES OF DELAWARE | $180,000 |
| DELAWARE VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES | $150,000 |
| DELAWARE LAWYERS ASSISTANCE FUND | $20,000 |
| PRO BONO NET | $8,250 |
| DELAWARE STATE BAR ASSOCIATION | $7,532 |
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 10%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +109% since the first grant, against +87% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $8.3M · revenue +171%- LSLEGAL SERVICES CORP OF DELAWARE9× · 2017–2025 · $5.8M · revenue +109% · 28% of their budget
- DVDELAWARE VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +380% · 43% of their budget
Funded once
- ICINTERFAITH COMMUNITY HOUSING OF DELAWAREgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +79%
- CCCOMBINED CAMPAIGN JUSTICEone grant, 2017 · $9k
- PFPARTNERS FOR JUSTICE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +87%
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.
The delaware bar foundation's mission is improving the administration of justice in delaware by: - providing funding for legal services for the poor - promoting study and research in the field of law - fostering knowledge of citizenship…
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The organization monitors legislation that could impact civil liberties and takes the necessary action to support or oppose such legislation.
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,…
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To advocate for domestic violence victims, at-risk children, and other vulnerable individuals by providing over $22.8m in pro bono legal services, social service referrals, and on-going support; to train and support a strong network of…
To preserve and advance the liberties and civil rights of the citizens of the state of delaware as enshrined in the united states and delaware consitutions through education and advocacy without consideration of political association.
Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.
The DEBCC is a 501c3. Our mission is to support the initiatives of Black business owners and foster an enterprise that focuses on success and viability. We endeavor to create awareness and visibility of our efforts at local, state, and…
Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Legal Aid Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Interfaith Community Housing of Delaware. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES CORP OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE LAW RELATED EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY HOUSING OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE STATE BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO NET INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE LAWYERS ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR JUSTICE 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: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Delaware Bar 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.
- Delaware Law Related Education Center Inc — 53% of income from government
- Delaware Volunteer Legal Services Inc — 53% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Society Inc — 38% of income from government
- Delaware Community Reinvestment Action Council Inc — 14% of income from government
- Delaware Community Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
- Delaware State Bar Association — 2% of income from government
- Legal Services Corp of Delaware — 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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