· Private foundation
Delfest Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POTOMAC FIRE CO NO 2 | $12,968 |
| SALVATION ARMY CUMBERLAND | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY TRUST FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNION RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| ALLEGANY COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM | $5,500 |
| EVERGREEN HERITAGE CENTER | $5,000 |
| WESTERN MARYLAND FOOD BANK | $3,500 |
| JANE'S PLACE | $2,400 |
| MAIN STREET HOUSING INC | $2,300 |
| ROBOTICS AND ENGINEERING IN ALLEGANY COUNTY | $2,200 |
| ALLEGANY COUNTY SOCIAL SERVICES BOARD | $2,000 |
| CUMBERLAND SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION | $1,800 |
| KEMPE LODGE NO 154 AF&AM | $1,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- URUNION RESCUE MISSION5× · 2020–2025 · $43k · revenue +50%
- WMWestern Maryland Food Bank6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +53%
- ACASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF CUMBERLAND INC2× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- ACALLEGANY CO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +89%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $6k
- ACAllegany County Historical Society Incone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland
To provide new housing for economically disadvantaged families.
Seeking to put gods love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
Provide a comfortable, safe and normal living environment for persons with mental retardation
The Historical Society provides information to the public concerning the historical events in the area. The Society also helps with the restoration of historical
To combat the problem of vacant and abandoned properties in Allegany County, New York and facilitate the return of vacant, abandoned and tax-delinquent properties to productive use.
Develop and manage high-quality affordable housing in central pa and the surrounding area.
Provided Fire & Rescue Services to Alum Bank, PA and surrounding area.
Provide support to alleghany highlands community services board.
Raise funds/local charities
Community renewal services
To provide care for homeless animals
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 30 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Western Maryland Food Bank ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF CUMBERLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ROBOTICS AND ENGINEERING IN ↗
- Who funds COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY TRUST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGANY CO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JANES PLACE ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds Allegany County Library System ↗
- Who funds Allegany County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLEGANY HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGANY YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROGRAM CO BOTTOM LINE ACCOUNTING ↗
- Who funds WAMBA CARAVAN 89 INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Kate Bill & Diane Foundation · The Community Trust Foundation Inc · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Delfest Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Delfest Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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