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Delsa Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$91k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
37%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$12,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$1.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 37% of the organizations Delsa Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving19$91k42%
FY202319$90k37%
FY202221$91k76%
FY202124$89k54%
FY202025$75k68%
FY201924$95k83%
FY201819$83k79%
FY201718$63kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$521kCrime & Legal$26kScience & Tech$24kArts & Culture$24kCommunity Improvement$18kYouth Development$13kPhilanthropy$10kAnimals$7kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
WI
NY
IN
PA
MO
KY
TN
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Camp David of the Ozarks Inc$26,00052%
The Community Partnership$18,00031%
Fine Linen Theatre$17,00034%
Westside Baptist Church$13,7552n/a
Ass For$13,000110%
Lincoln University$12,0003n/a
Missouri Academy of Science$8,6403n/a
Columbia College$4,00010%
University of Miami$4,00020%
Kaleidoscope Discovery Center$3,0001n/a
Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of Delsa Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Camp David of the Ozarks Inc$26,00052%
The Community Partnership$18,00031%
Fine Linen Theatre$17,00034%
Westside Baptist Church$13,7552n/a
Ass For$13,000110%
Lincoln University$12,0003n/a
Missouri Academy of Science$8,6403n/a
Columbia College$4,00010%
University of Miami$4,00020%
Kaleidoscope Discovery Center$3,0001n/a
Phelps County Animal Rescue$2,00011%
Days For Girls International$2,00020%
Ozark Rivers Chapter National Audubon Society$2,0002n/a
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary$2,0001n/a
Greater Rolla Area Charitable Enter$2,00011%
Indiana University School of Medicine$2,0001n/a
College of the Ozarks$2,00010%
Lindenwood Education System$2,00010%
Hopey's Heart Foundation$1,00012%

Plus 95 recipients with no EIN on record ($540k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Delsa Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCamp David of the Ozarks Inc: $26,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetThe Community Partnership: $18,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFine Linen Theatre: $17,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetAss For: $13,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetColumbia College: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhelps County Animal Rescue: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDays For Girls International: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Rolla Area Charitable Enter: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCollege of the Ozarks: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLindenwood Education System: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHopey's Heart Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget

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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 12.

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.

Community Foundation of the Ozarks IncMO15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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How do I get to Delsa Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Delsa Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Delsa Foundation

How much does Delsa Foundation give?
Delsa Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $91,300 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Delsa Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (77%), Crime & Legal (4%), Science & Tech (4%).
Who are Delsa Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Camp David of the Ozarks Inc ($26k), The Community Partnership ($18k), Fine Linen Theatre ($17k).
Does Delsa Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Delsa Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Delsa Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Delsa Foundation based?
Delsa Foundation is based in MO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 114 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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