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Delaware Humanities Council

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

$222k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.2MEducation$267kHuman Services$201kPhilanthropy$131kReligion$54kCivil Rights$41kHealth$31kHousing & Shelter$29kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $160,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $221,594 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $61,294 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $146k
$18,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation$18,000
Local Journalism Initiative of Delaware$18,000
Plastic Free Delaware$18,000
History Book Festival$18,000
Berkana Center for Media and Education Inc$18,000
Delaware Public Archives$18,000
Network Delaware$16,200
Neighborhood House Inc$12,000
Department of Human Resources$10,000
Southern Delaware Alliance For Racial Justice$9,000
DSPA Hale Byrnes House$5,100
02The need
03

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 (FY23–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Network Delaware: $16k → 10%NETWORK DELAWARE: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 31 repeat orgs$697k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
41

Total granted

$1.4M
$607k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+36%

Still filing today

87%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther

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

  • OV
    One Village Alliance
    5× · 2018–2022 · $118k · revenue +643%
  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    6× · 2018–2023 · $106k · revenue +29%
  • GH
    GREATER HARRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $76k · revenue +120% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $51k
  • VL
    VARIOUS - LESS THAN 5000 AMOUNTS
    one grant, 2017 · $44k
  • TC
    THE CHOIR SCHOOL OF DELAWARE
    one grant, 2022 · $38k

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.

1
Fort Miles Museum and Historical Area Inc

Sharing personal stories of defending coastal delaware by us military forces and civilians; and showing how their actions shaped and influenced community life in delaware.

Arts & Culture
2
Delaware State Police Museum Inc

To preserve, interpret, and display the history of the delaware state police in order to provide an educational experience.

Arts & Culture
3
Laurel District Library Commission

The Laurel District Library provides access to information and library materials for residents and visitors to Sussex County in the State of Delaware.

Education
4
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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5
Delaware County Historical Society

Acquire and preserve property and information of historic value and/or interest concerning delaware county, pennsylvania. the society also operates a research library and museum.

Arts & Culture
6
Delaware County Historical Society Inc

Historical society

Arts & Culture
7
Delaware County Historical Society

To promote and sustain interest in the history of delaware county, ohio through historical preservation and education.

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8
Georgetown Public Library Inc

The Georgetown Public Library provides access to information and library materials for residents and visitors to Sussex County in the State of Delaware.

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9
Delaware Curative Workshop Inc
Health
10
Delaware River & Bay Lighthouse Foundation Inc

Organized to promote preservation and restoration of the lighthouses located on the delaware river and bay and to educate the public about their historical and cultural importance.

Environment
11
Delmarva Discovery Center & Museum Inc

To foster appreciation of delmarva's unique natural and cultural heritage through education, exploration and enjoyment.

Arts & Culture
12
Society of Colonial Wars of Delaware

The society is organized exclusively for the purpose of perpetuating the memory of colonial events and of the brave and worthy men who in military, naval, and civil positions of high trust and responsibility, by their acts or counsel,…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historical Society of Delaware and the most unlike its peers is Maryland-Delaware-Dc Press Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%3%<5yr16%5%5–10yr22%12%10–20yr14%31%20–35yr9%27%35–55yr10%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%5%<5yr16%4%5–10yr22%8%10–20yr14%26%20–35yr9%30%35–55yr10%27%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/68
the rest of the field
10%
848/8,179

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.

04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 80 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
40/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $106,042 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWAREGREATER HARRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIE — $75,851 · OtherGREATER HARRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIEAFRO-AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE — $51,217 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $50,751 · OtherVARIOUS - LESS THAN 5000 AMOUNTS — $44,261 · OtherSERVIAM MEDIA — $43,442 · OtherJEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE — $39,514 · OtherTHE CHOIR SCHOOL OF DELAWARE — $38,000 · OtherDELAWARE AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $37,900 · OtherBERKANA CENTER FOR MEDIA AND EDUCATION INC — $35,500 · Other+33 more — $469,510 · Other+33 moreHISTORY BOOK FESTIVAL AT LEWES INC — $68,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORY BOOK FESTIVAL AT LEWES INCDELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION — $59,900 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATIONDELAWARE THEATRE COMPANY — $58,892 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE THEATRE COMPANYHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE — $55,233 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWAREHISTORIC RED CLAY VALLEY INC — $37,900 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC RED CLAY VALLEY INCGREENBANK MILL ASSOCIATES INC — $37,900 · Arts & CultureGREENBANK MILL ASSOCIATES INCDELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC — $36,273 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE ART MUSEUM INCTHE DELAWARE CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ARTS INC — $34,125 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC — $32,900 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE INC — $32,900 · Arts & CultureOCEAN VIEW HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $29,701 · Arts & CultureEleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc — $26,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF AUBURN HEIGHTS INC — $25,400 · Arts & CultureFORT MILES HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC — $23,500 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $104,449 · Arts & Culture+9 moreLEWES PUBLIC LIBRARY INC — $60,665 · EducationREHOBOTH BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY INC — $31,248 · EducationCORBIT-CALLOWAY MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $22,860 · EducationMARYLAND-DELAWARE-DC PRESS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationDELAWARE CITY LIBRARY SOCIETY — $10,000 · EducationOne Village Alliance — $118,000 · Youth DevelopmentKAPPA MAINSTREAM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $7,430 · Youth DevelopmentTHE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION — $106,000 · EnvironmentPLASTIC FREE DELAWARE — $18,000 · EnvironmentChinese American Community Center Inc — $33,900 · Human ServicesNETWORK DELAWARE INC — $26,200 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUEINC — $17,000 · Human ServicesHISTORIC GEORGETOWN ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementARDEN CLUB INC — $17,900 · Community Improvement
Other$991,988Arts & Culture$663,573Education$144,773Youth Development$125,430Environment$124,000Human Services$77,100Community Improvement$37,900

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOne Village Alliance — $118,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $106,042 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION — $106,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetGREATER HARRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIE — $75,851 over 4y, 40% of budgetHISTORY BOOK FESTIVAL AT LEWES INC — $68,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetLEWES PUBLIC LIBRARY INC — $60,665 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetDELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION — $59,900 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetDELAWARE THEATRE COMPANY — $58,892 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE — $55,233 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE — $39,514 over 3y, 16% of budgetHISTORIC RED CLAY VALLEY INC — $37,900 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetDELAWARE AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $37,900 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetGREENBANK MILL ASSOCIATES INC — $37,900 over 2y, 16% of budgetDELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC — $36,273 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DELAWARE CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ARTS INC — $34,125 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetChinese American Community Center Inc — $33,900 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetDELAWARE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC — $32,900 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetDELAWARE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE INC — $32,900 over 2y, 16% of budgetNEW CASTLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $32,900 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetREHOBOTH BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY INC — $31,248 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetOCEAN VIEW HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $29,701 over 2y, 40% of budgetEleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc — $26,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNETWORK DELAWARE INC — $26,200 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetHOLY TRINITY (OLD SWEDES) CHURCH FOUNDATION INC — $25,868 over 2y, 15% of budgetFRIENDS OF AUBURN HEIGHTS INC — $25,400 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF COOCHS BRIDGE HISTORIC SITE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetFORT MILES HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC — $23,500 over 1y, 16% of budgetSELBYVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY — $22,895 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCORBIT-CALLOWAY MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $22,860 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHISTORIC GEORGETOWN ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 93% of budgetDELAWARE PACEM IN TERRIS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMARYLAND-DELAWARE-DC PRESS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetLOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE INC — $18,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPLASTIC FREE DELAWARE — $18,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetMILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $17,900 over 1y, 12% of budgetARDEN CLUB INC — $17,900 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE WEST COMMUNITY DEV CORP — $17,200 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUEINC — $17,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Delaware Inc — $14,375 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOVERFALLS FOUNDATION — $12,927 over 1y, 14% of budgetREHOBOTH BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $12,900 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetHISTORIC ODESSA FOUNDATION — $12,900 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWILMINGTON INSTITUTE FREE LIBRARY — $12,900 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOPERADELAWARE INC — $11,440 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDELAWARE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMILFORD MUSEUM AND LANDMARKS COMMISSION INC — $10,900 over 1y, 20% of budgetTHE LEWES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

Delaware Community Fo…Longwood Foundation I…Welfare Foundation IncCrestlea Foundation I…Laffey-McHugh Foundat…Nor' Easter Foundatio…Wsfs Cares FoundationFair Play FoundationEllason Downs Perpetu…Wakefield Family Fund…Carolyn S & Donald F …Marmot Foundation
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

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 Humanities Council 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Cornerstone West Community Dev Corp — 100% of income from government
  • Ocean View Historical Society — 100% of income from government
  • Delaware Academy of Science Inc — 99% of income from government
  • Selbyville Public Library — 95% of income from government
  • Delaware Agricultural Museum Association — 75% of income from government
  • Delaware Academy of Medicine Inc — 75% of income from government
  • Milford Museum and Landmarks Commission Inc — 74% of income from government
  • Fort Miles Historical Association Inc — 66% of income from government
  • University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
  • Wilmington Institute Free Library — 30% of income from government
  • Historic Georgetown Association Inc — 28% of income from government
  • Lewes Public Library Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Preservation Delaware — 22% of income from government
  • Plastic Free Delaware — 21% of income from government
  • Joshua M Freeman Foundation — 20% of income from government
  • Delaware Shakespeare Festival Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Historical Society of Delaware — 18% of income from government
  • Rehoboth Beach Public Library Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Neighborhood House Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Greater Harrington Historical Socie — 16% of income from government
  • Delaware Community Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Friends of Coochs Bridge Historic Site Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Delaware Public Media Corporation — 11% of income from government
  • Rehoboth Beach Historical Society — 10% of income from government
  • Operadelaware Inc — 9% of income from government
  • New Castle Historical Society — 8% of income from government
  • Delaware Theatre Company — 8% of income from government
  • Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Arden Club Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Delaware Pacem in Terris Inc — 4% of income from government
  • The Lewes Historical Society Inc — 4% of income from government
  • The Delaware Contemporary Arts Inc Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Greater Lewes Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • Historic Odessa Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Chinese American Community Center Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Local Journalism Initiative Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
8rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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