How much does Delaware Humanities Council give?

Delaware Humanities Council reported 11 itemized grants totaling $160,300, out of $221,594 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Delaware Humanities Council fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (57%), Education (12%), Human Services (9%).

Who are Delaware Humanities Council's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: One Village Alliance ($118k), University of Delaware ($106k), Greater Harrington Historical Socie ($76k).

Does Delaware Humanities Council fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Delaware Humanities Council?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaware Community Foundation Inc, Longwood Foundation Inc, Welfare Foundation Inc.

Where is Delaware Humanities Council based?

Delaware Humanities Council is based in DE.

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Delaware · Public charity

Delaware Humanities Council

DELAWARE HUMANITIES COUNCIL strengthens our communities by connecting delawareans through the diversity of human experiences.

$222k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 11
Itemized grants FY2024: 12
Organizations funded FY2023: 42%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $160k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $18,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $18,000
Organizations funded a year: 9 to 34; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $1.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations Delaware Humanities Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	10	$160k	60%
FY2023	12	$199k	42%
FY2022	28	$585k	39%
FY2021	17	$295k	24%
FY2020	34	$444k	88%
FY2019	10	$157k	40%
FY2018	9	$80k	100%
FY2017	9	$127k	n/a

96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.2MEducation$267kHuman Services$201kPhilanthropy$131kReligion$54kCivil Rights$41kHealth$31kHousing & Shelter$29kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
One Village Alliance	$118,000	5	14%
University of Delaware	$106,042	6	0%
Greater Harrington Historical Socie	$75,851	4	40%
History Book Festival at Lewes Inc	$68,000	2	6%
Lewes Public Library Inc	$60,665	6	2%
Delaware Public Media Corporation	$59,900	4	2%
Delaware Theatre Company	$58,892	3	1%
Historical Society of Delaware	$55,233	3	1%
Afro-American Historical Society of Delaware	$51,217	2	n/a
Serviam Media	$43,442	2	n/a

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All grantees of Delaware Humanities Council by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
One Village Alliance	$118,000	5	14%
University of Delaware	$106,042	6	0%
Greater Harrington Historical Socie	$75,851	4	40%
History Book Festival at Lewes Inc	$68,000	2	6%
Lewes Public Library Inc	$60,665	6	2%
Delaware Public Media Corporation	$59,900	4	2%
Delaware Theatre Company	$58,892	3	1%
Historical Society of Delaware	$55,233	3	1%
Afro-American Historical Society of Delaware	$51,217	2	n/a
Serviam Media	$43,442	2	n/a
Jewish Historical Society of Delaware	$39,514	3	16%
The Choir School of Delaware	$38,000	1	n/a
Historic Red Clay Valley Inc	$37,900	2	3%
Greenbank Mill Associates Inc	$37,900	2	16%
Delaware Agricultural Museum Association	$37,900	2	4%
Delaware Art Museum Inc	$36,273	3	0%
Berkana Center for Media and Education Inc	$35,500	2	n/a
The Delaware Contemporary Arts Inc Arts Inc	$34,125	3	1%
Chinese American Community Center Inc	$33,900	2	2%
Delaware Shakespeare Festival Inc	$32,900	2	5%
New Castle Historical Society	$32,900	2	9%
Delaware Academy of Science Inc	$32,900	2	16%
Rehoboth Beach Public Library Inc	$31,248	2	4%
Ocean View Historical Society	$29,701	2	40%
State of Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Contro	$28,000	1	n/a
Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc	$26,500	2	0%
Network Delaware Inc	$26,200	2	4%
Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church Foundation Inc	$25,868	2	15%
Friends of Auburn Heights Inc	$25,400	2	4%
Friends of Coochs Bridge Historic Site Inc	$25,000	2	4%
Fort Miles Historical Association Inc	$23,500	1	16%
Selbyville Public Library	$22,895	2	3%
Corbit-Calloway Memorial Library	$22,860	2	2%
Maryland-Delaware-Dc Press Foundation Inc	$20,000	1	33%
Historic Georgetown Association Inc	$20,000	1	93%
Delaware Pacem in Terris Inc	$20,000	1	12%
Friends of the African Union Cemetery Inc	$19,443	1	n/a
Plastic Free Delaware	$18,000	1	10%
Local Journalism Initiative Inc	$18,000	1	1%
Milton Historical Society	$17,900	1	12%
Arden Club Inc	$17,900	1	7%
Cornerstone West Community Dev Corp	$17,200	1	1%
Metropolitan Wilmington Urban Leagueinc	$17,000	1	2%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Delaware Inc	$14,375	1	1%
Mddc Press Foundation	$13,500	1	n/a
Yorklyn Storytelling Festival	$13,000	1	n/a
Overfalls Foundation	$12,927	1	14%
Wilmington Institute Free Library	$12,900	1	0%
Rehoboth Beach Historical Society	$12,900	1	8%
Historic Odessa Foundation	$12,900	1	0%
Neighborhood House Inc	$12,000	1	1%
Operadelaware Inc	$11,440	1	1%
The Friends of the Dover Public Library	$11,000	1	n/a
Delaware Academy of Medicine Inc	$11,000	1	1%
Milford Museum and Landmarks Commission Inc	$10,900	1	20%
Delaware City Library Society	$10,000	1	n/a
The Lewes Historical Society Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Sewell C Biggs Trust the Biggs Museum of American Art	$9,850	1	0%
The Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice	$9,000	1	7%
Preservation Delaware	$8,900	1	n/a
Joshua M Freeman Foundation	$7,532	1	0%
Underground Railroad Coalition of Delaware Northeast Underground Rai	$7,448	1	n/a
Kappa Mainstream Leadership Foundation Inc	$7,430	1	n/a
Bowers Beach Maritime Museum Inc	$7,160	1	n/a
League of Women Voters of Delaware Inc	$5,800	1	n/a
Delaware Society for the Preservation of Antiquities	$5,100	1	n/a

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($212k), not named here.

Delaware Humanities Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 50.

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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.

Delaware Community Foundation IncDE69.4× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Fair Play Foundation · Ellason Downs Perpetual Charitable Trust · Wakefield Family Fund Inc · Carolyn S & Donald F Obrecht Foundation · Marmot 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.

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About Delaware Humanities Council

How much does Delaware Humanities Council give?: Delaware Humanities Council reported 11 itemized grants totaling $160,300, out of $221,594 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Delaware Humanities Council fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (57%), Education (12%), Human Services (9%).
Who are Delaware Humanities Council's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: One Village Alliance ($118k), University of Delaware ($106k), Greater Harrington Historical Socie ($76k).
Does Delaware Humanities Council fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Delaware Humanities Council?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaware Community Foundation Inc, Longwood Foundation Inc, Welfare Foundation Inc.
Where is Delaware Humanities Council based?: Delaware Humanities Council is based in DE.