· Private foundation
Delsa Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ROLLA | $12,000 |
| PHELPS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE OF MISSOURI | $10,000 |
| EAST CENTRAL COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| FINE LINEN THEATRE | $10,000 |
| DEN PHELPS RIII SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,000 |
| HOPE OF THE OZARKS | $5,000 |
| MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| LINCOLN UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA | $4,000 |
| COLUMBIA COLLEGE OF MO | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON | $2,000 |
| OZARKS TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF INDIANA | $2,000 |
| PHELPS COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–22, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of Delsa Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in MO; by stated purpose, 79%.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP3× · 2019–2022 · $18k · revenue +33%
- FLFine Linen Theatre3× · 2022–2024 · $17k · revenue +131%
- UOUniversity of Miami2× · 2022–2023 · $4k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- DRDIXON R1 SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $20k
- RRTIRTCone grant, 2018 · $16k
- PCPHELPS COUNTY R-IIIone grant, 2019 · $16k
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.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Coe college is a private, four-year co-educational liberal arts college.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…
Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
Guiding students to succeed through personal instruction and intellectual inquiry.
Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…
See schedule o for complete description - the mission of the arkansas colleges of health education (ache) is to educate and train a diverse group of highly competent and compassionate healthcare professionals; to create health and research…
to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 114 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.
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: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Delsa Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Delsa Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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