How much did DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

Health$24MEducation$21MEnvironment$18MArts & Culture$12MHuman Services$11MPhilanthropy$6.7MHousing & Shelter$4.6MCommunity Improvement$3.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$3.3MOther$47M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

dcf focusliteracy distributionkcfaalliances advocacygreening distributionspecific interestkay's

2020

riverview worksppetidalhealthjdgcleaningcovidat-risk youth

2021

marchncc ypbrestriced children'sreformlatinx studentsnotre damestudents catholic

2022

disbursementwords creativecreative forcecapacity-building strategicstrategic planempowers studentcapital expense-ramp

2023

ypb castlecapital installsponsored scholasticscholastic bookbook fairintegrativeconsultant

2024

embry-riddlerent operateoperate facilitiesintegrativeagingcapital renovationsfutures

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 323 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k64 grants · $474k
$10k–50k156 grants · $3.5M
$50k–250k83 grants · $8.5M
$250k+20 grants · $29M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$346M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION$10,750,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$5,008,000
NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER INC$4,535,926
WASHINGTON COLLEGE$1,515,000
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$1,368,649
DELAWARE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS$660,986
STATE OF DELAWARE$568,696
BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION$554,080
DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY$535,594
ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE$500,000
TIDALHEALTH FOUNDATION INC$500,000
RHODES COLLEGE$418,000
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$404,846
YMCA OF DELAWARE$387,000
NEMOURS FOUNDATION$361,774

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $10.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

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

About 14% of DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in DE; read by stated purpose it is 63% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 2.7% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$136M · 448 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

448 repeat relationships — 260 still active in FY2024, 188 since wound down; 63 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

448

274

Total granted

$136M

$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+40%

Still filing today

87%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
2× · 2020–2024 · $12M · revenue +59%
NY
NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER INC
2× · 2023–2024 · $6.0M · revenue +72%
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
2× · 2021–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +37%

Funded once

DH
DELAWARE HEALTH EQUITY COALITIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +369% · 75% of their budget
CF
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONAgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $320k · revenue +35%
MU
MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
one grant, 2022 · $300k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Delaware Advancement Corporation

Economic development

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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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Delaware River Waterfront Corporation

Drwc's mission is to maintain and promote the use and development ofthe city of philadelphia's central waterfront. this task is of vitalimportance to the city and one which the city would otherwise berequired to perform itself absent the…

Community Improvement

Delaware County Foundation

Strengthening the community by connecting people through charitable giving

Philanthropy

Medical Society of Delaware

To promote the art & science of medicine among our members.

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Delaware Community Foundation Inc

Our mission is to strengthen delaware by maximizing community-based philanthropy.

Philanthropy

Aids Delaware Inc

To support those with hiv/aids in delaware and to prevent the spread of hiv through comprehensive services, education and advocacy

Health

Better Business Bureau of Delaware

Community Improvement

Charter School of New Castle

A delaware charter school with a mission that acknowledges the learning differences of each individual child and nurtures the uniqueness of each family structure.

Education

Delaware County Economic Development

To promote economic development in delaware county pennsylvania.

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Friends of the Delaware Canal Inc

The friends of the delaware canal is an independent, non-profit organization working to restore, preserve, and improve the delaware canal and its surroundings.

Environment

Foundation for Delaware County

The mission of the foundation for delaware county is to ensure an equitable, vibrant future for delaware county by promoting generosity, inspiring participation and partnership across our communities, and improving the quality of life for…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Association in Delaware and the most unlike its peers is Coker University. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 33% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%10/781

the rest of the field

862/9,227

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.

06the grantee network

659 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

223

Early backer (in before they grew)

642/659

Grantees still filing

491/659

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$58,148,614Health$24,298,808Education$20,668,325Environment$18,036,957Arts & Culture$11,500,277Human Services$11,313,234Philanthropy$6,657,483

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.

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.

Laffey-McHugh FoundationDE248.6× affinity150 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Longwood Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · United Way of Delaware · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Marmot Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Incyte Charitable Giving Foundation · Milton and Hattie Kutz Foundation · Nor' Easter 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 organisation DELAWARE COMMUNITY 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

Reach Riverside Development Corp — 100% of income from government
Christina Cultural Arts Center Inc — 100% of income from government
Cornerstone West Community Dev Corp — 100% of income from government
Education Health and Research — 100% of income from government
Code Purple Kent County Delaware Inc — 100% of income from government
Children and Families First — 87% of income from government
Family Promise of Northern — 73% of income from government
Memorial Volunteer Fire Company — 73% of income from government
4th Dimension Leaders Inc — 69% of income from government
Kind to Kids Foundation — 69% of income from government
Gumboro Volunteer Fire Company — 67% of income from government
Community Education Building Corp — 64% of income from government
Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire — 64% of income from government
Dagsboro Volunteer Fire Dept I — 61% of income from government
Selbyville Volunteer Fire Company — 59% of income from government
Survivors of Abuse in Recovery Inc — 57% of income from government
Delaware Coalition Against Domestic — 56% of income from government
The Summer Learning Collaborative Inc — 54% of income from government
Impact Life Inc — 54% of income from government
Delaware Volunteer Legal Services Inc — 53% of income from government
Cheer Inc — 51% of income from government
La Red Health Center Inc — 51% of income from government
Laurel Fire Department Inc — 49% of income from government
Green Beret Project Inc — 49% of income from government
Westside Family Healthcare Inc — 48% of income from government
St Michael's School and Nursery Inc — 48% of income from government
Seaford Volunteer Fire Department — 47% of income from government
Millville Volunteer Fire Co Inc — 42% of income from government
Lewes Fire Department Inc — 41% of income from government
Family Counseling Center of — 41% of income from government
Supporting Kidds Inc — 41% of income from government
Leading Youth Through Empowerment Inc — 39% of income from government
Limen House Inc — 38% of income from government
Community Legal Aid Society Inc — 38% of income from government
Newark Senior Center Inc — 37% of income from government
West End Neighborhood House Inc — 36% of income from government
Neighborgood Partners Inc — 35% of income from government
Latin American Community — 34% of income from government
Delaware Health Empowerment — 34% of income from government
Literacy Delaware — 30% of income from government
The Ministry of Caring Inc — 30% of income from government
Seaford District Library Inc — 28% of income from government
Teen Warehouse Inc — 28% of income from government
Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc — 24% of income from government
Zip Code Wilmington Inc — 21% of income from government
Wilmington Alliance Inc — 19% of income from government
La Esperanza Inc — 19% of income from government
Delaware College Scholars Inc — 18% of income from government
Neighborhood House Inc — 16% of income from government
Faithful Friends Inc — 15% of income from government
Humane Animal Partners — 14% of income from government
Healthy Foods for Healthy Kids Inc — 14% of income from government
Autism Delaware Inc — 12% of income from government
Delaware Symphony Association Inc — 11% of income from government
Endless Possibilities in the Community — 11% of income from government
Do Care Doula Foundation Inc — 9% of income from government
Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
Sussex Montessori School Inc — 9% of income from government
Rehoboth Art League Inc — 8% of income from government
Delaware Theatre Company — 8% of income from government
Delmar Public Library Commission — 8% of income from government
Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% of income from government
Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition — 7% of income from government
First State Squash Inc — 7% of income from government
Jewish Federation of Delaware Inc — 6% of income from government
Grand Opera House Inc — 5% of income from government
Little Sisters of the Poor Inc — 5% of income from government
Children's Beach House Inc — 5% of income from government
Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc — 4% of income from government
Bayhealth Foundation Corporation — 4% of income from government
Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research Inc — 3% of income from government
Delaware Health Sciences Alliance Llc — 3% of income from government
Sustainable Energy Utility Inc — 2% of income from government
Ingleside Homes Inc — 2% of income from government
Serviam Girls Academy Inc — 2% of income from government
Harry K Foundation — 2% of income from government
Native Roots Farm Foundation — 2% of income from government
Delaware Hospice Inc — 1% of income from government
Love Inc of Mid Delmarva Inc — 1% of income from government
Northeastern Vermont Regional Hosp Inc — 1% of income from government
The Greater Lewes Foundation — 1% of income from government
La Plaza Delaware Inc — 1% of income from government
The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
Exceptional Care for Children — 0% of income from government
Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
Mental Health Association in Delaware — 0% of income from government
Find M Friends Inc — 0% of income from government
Cendel Foundation — 0% of income from government
Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
International Literacy Association — 0% of income from government
Delaware Academy of Vocal Arts Inc — 0% of income from government
Local Journalism Initiative Inc — 0% of income from government
Delmarva Christian Schools Inc — 0% of income from government

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

47get no government money at all

22rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ARTS CONSORTIUM OF DELAWARE INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 510351748 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ARTS CONSORTIUM OF DELAWARE INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Delaware Community Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Delaware Community Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines