Delaware · Private foundation
Donald & Martha Dewees Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Donald & Martha Dewees Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $658k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $1.1M | 57% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $880k | 83% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $100k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $81k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $21k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $41k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $38k | 58% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $38k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humane Animal Partners | $270,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Delaware Art Museum Inc | $133,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Challenge Program Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Historical Society of Delaware | $46,700 | 6 | 1% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $41,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Salesianum School Inc | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kalmar Nyckel Foundation | $34,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Christiana Care Health System Inc | $31,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Kennett Pike Association Inc | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Donald & Martha Dewees Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Edgar a Thronson Foundation · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Wakefield Family Fund Inc · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Marmot Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Donald & Martha Dewees Foundation
- How much does Donald & Martha Dewees Foundation give?
- Donald & Martha Dewees Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $1,115,985 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Donald & Martha Dewees Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Animals (13%), Philanthropy (10%).
- Who are Donald & Martha Dewees Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Humane Animal Partners ($270k), Delaware Art Museum Inc ($134k), Challenge Program Inc ($75k).
- Does Donald & Martha Dewees Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Donald & Martha Dewees Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Donald & Martha Dewees Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaware Community Foundation Inc, Longwood Foundation Inc, Edgar a Thronson Foundation.
- Where is Donald & Martha Dewees Foundation based?
- Donald & Martha Dewees Foundation is based in DE.
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