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Draper Holdings Charitable Foundation I

To help children in need on delmarva.

$561k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$778kYouth Development$440kEducation$225kEnvironment$135kHealth$113kArts & Culture$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kPhilanthropy$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $302,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $560,750 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $258,750 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $102k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHFIELD MT HERMON SCHOOL$150,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DELAWARE$32,000
WOR-WIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE$25,000
DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$15,000
DELAWARE BOTANIC GARDENS$10,000
YMCA OF DELAWARE$10,000
DELAWARE WILD LANDS INC$10,000
SALVATION ARMY OF SALISBURY$8,000
ACCOMACK CO DEPT OF SOCIAL SERVICES$8,000
FIRST STATE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY$8,000
NORTHAMPTON CO DEPT OF SOCIAL SERVICES$7,000
SHORE UP INC$6,500
MIDSHORE MEALS TIL MONDAY$6,500
MAPLE SHADE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES$6,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $241k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GOOD SAMARITAN AID ORGANIZATION INC: $7k → 10%YMCA OF DELAWARE: $10k → 10%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC: $63k → 12%WORCESTER COUNTY GOLD: $9k → 8%MAPLE SHADE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 13%GOOD SAMARITAN AID ORGANIZATION INC: $7k → 10%WORCESTER COUNTY GOLD: $8k → 8%MAPLE SHADE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 13%GOOOD SAMARITAN AID ORGANIZATION INC: $6k → 10%WORCESTER COUNTY GOLD: $8k → 8%GOOOD SAMARITAN AID ORGANIZATION INC: $5k → 10%WORCESTER COUNTY GOLD: $7k → 8%GOOD SAMARITAN AID ORGANIZATION INC: $5k → 10%WORCESTER COUNTY GOLD: $7k → 8%CLOTHING OUR KIDS: $5k → 10%WORCESTER COUNTY GOLD: $7k → 8%GOOD OLE BOY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%GOOD OLE BOY FOUNDATION: $9k → 10%GOOD OLE BOY FOUNDATION: $9k → 10%GOOD OLE BOY FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%GOOD OLE BOY FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%GOOD OLE BOY FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%DELMARVA TEEN CHALLENGE: $5k → 10%EWC ADOPT-A-BLOCK OUTREACH MINISTRY: $6k → 13%EWC ADOPT-A-BLOCK OUTREACH MINISTRY: $5k → 13%LEWES SENIOR CENTER: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 23 repeat orgs$444k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
25

Total granted

$1.4M
$378k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+31%

Still filing today

57%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $425k · revenue +74%
  • NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +69%
  • BM
    BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • ND
    NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $63k · revenue +139%
  • MF
    MILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • SC
    SUSSEX COUNTY LAND FOUNDATION INC T/A SUSSEX COUNTY LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Food Bank of Delaware Inc

The mission of the organization is to inspire hope in our communities by providing food to nourish delawareans, while collaborating on long-term solutions to hunger and poverty.

Food & Nutrition
2
Delaware Center for Justice

The delaware center for justice, inc. seeks to ensure an effective, efficient, and equitable system of justice in delaware through advocacy, direct services, research and public education.

Crime & Legal
3
Delaware Public Media Corporation

To make a substantial contribution to delaware's journalism community and to the citizens of delaware by delivering original, in-depth, delaware-specific news and commentary from all three counties.

Arts & Culture
4
Preservation Delaware
Arts & Culture
5
Delmarva Discovery Center & Museum Inc

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

Arts & Culture
6
The Committee of 100 Inc

Promote responsible economic development and address issues that affect delawares economic health.

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7
Delaware Prosperity Partnership Inc

To lead the state of delaware's economic development efforts.

Community Improvement
8
Delaware Advancement Corporation

To aggressively promote investment in muncie-delaware county which will result in the creation and retention of quality job opportunities and enhance the quality of life in our community.

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9
Delaware County Community Partnership Inc

Dedicated to improving the quality of life for the people of delaware county by encouraging healthy attitudes and behaviors.

Crime & Legal
10
Springboard Delaware

To build affordable housing communities that foster well-being for all delawareans in need.

Housing & Shelter
11
Delaware County Foundation

Strengthening the community by connecting people through charitable giving

Philanthropy
12
Delaware Agricultural Museum Association

The organization's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history and technology of delaware and the delmarva peninsula's farm life/culture and to offer public education programs and services related to aspects of the…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Good Samaritan Aid Organization. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/38
Grantees still filing
22/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC: $424,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INCTHE SALVATION ARMY: $136,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYSALVATION ARMY: $66,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYNORTHAMPTON CO DEPT OF SOCIAL SERVICES: $60,000 · OtherNORTHAMPTON CO DEPT OF SOCIAL SERVICESFIRST STATE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $53,000 · OtherMILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $50,000 · Other+23 more: $285,510 · Other+23 moreNATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC: $63,203 · Human ServicesNATIONAL DIAPE…GOOD OLE BOY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesGOOD OLE BOY F…WORCESTER COUNTY GOLD INC: $46,000 · Human ServicesWORCESTER COUN…THE GOOD SAMARITAN AID ORGANIZATION: $29,500 · Human ServicesTHE GOOD SAMAR…MAPLE SHADE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVIC: $12,000 · Human ServicesEWC ADOPT-A-BLOCK OUTREACH INC: $10,750 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE: $10,000 · Human ServicesLEWES SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human Services+2 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesNORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $155,000 · EducationNORTHFIELD MO…SALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationSALISBURY UNI…WOR-WIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationWOR-WIC COMMU…DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationDELAWARE STAT…+1 more: $5,000 · EducationBEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthWRAPAROUND MARYLAND INC: $21,500 · HealthSUSSEX COUNTY LAND FOUNDATION INC T/A SUSSEX COUNTY LAND TRUST: $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentDELAWARE BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentCALLIOPE PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSIC SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureOCEAN VIEW HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSALISBURY SUNRISE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $23,000 · PhilanthropyDELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,075,010Human Services$241,453Education$225,000Health$121,500Environment$110,000Arts & Culture$50,000Philanthropy$38,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC: $424,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $155,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC: $63,203 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFIRST STATE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $53,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSUSSEX COUNTY LAND FOUNDATION INC T/A SUSSEX COUNTY LAND TRUST: $50,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetGOOD OLE BOY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY GOLD INC: $46,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF JESUS AND MARY INC: $33,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GOOD SAMARITAN AID ORGANIZATION: $29,500 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetDELAWARE WILD LANDS INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSALISBURY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWOR-WIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSALISBURY SUNRISE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetWRAPAROUND MARYLAND INC: $21,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSIC SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSHORE UP INC P O BOX 430: $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAPLE SHADE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVIC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEWC ADOPT-A-BLOCK OUTREACH INC: $10,750 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDream Keepers Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLEWES SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDELAWARE BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDOVE POINTE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDSHORE MEALS TIL MONDAY INC: $6,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLA ESPERANZA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE EASTERN SHORE INC: $5,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLOVE INC OF MID DELMARVA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDELMARVA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Delaware Community Fo…Longwood Foundation I…Welfare Foundation IncThe Carl M Freeman Fo…Community Foundation …Franklin P and Arthur…Crestlea Foundation I…Laffey-McHugh Foundat…Chichester Dupont Fou…United Way of DelawareWsfs Cares FoundationEllason Downs Perpetu…
Delaware Community Foundation IncDE43.7× affinity20 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 · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · United Way of Delaware · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Ellason Downs Perpetual Charitable Trust

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Draper Holdings Charitable Foundation I funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Draper Holdings Charitable Foundation I. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Ocean View Historical Society: 100% of income from government
  • First State Community Action Agency Inc: 83% of income from government
  • Center for the Inland Bays Inc: 59% of income from government
  • Shore Up Inc P O Box 430: 56% of income from government
  • Milton Fire Department Inc: 41% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Lewes Senior Citizens Center Inc: 22% of income from government
  • La Esperanza Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Wraparound Maryland Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Calliope Project Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Delaware Community Foundation Inc: 13% of income from government
  • The Music School of Delaware Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Delaware Botanic Gardens Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Beebe Medical Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • Love Inc of Mid Delmarva Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Greater Lewes Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Young Men's Christian Association of Delaware: 1% of income from government
  • Salisbury University Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Delmarva Christian Schools Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Draper Holdings Charitable Foundation I?

Find your warmest path to Draper Holdings Charitable Foundation I 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.

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 55 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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