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Ederic Foundation Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9k
Granted FY2020
30
Grants FY2020
5
States reached
$750
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.

Education$109kArts & Culture$14kHuman Services$7kHealth$6kEnvironment$4kYouth Development$4kFood & Nutrition$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0
02FY2020 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$250
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DELAWARE HOSPICE$750
THE MUSIC SCHOOL OF DELAWARE$750
THE PILOT SCHOOL$500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DE$500
DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$500
ISLAND HEALTH PROJECT$400
FISHERS ISLAND RECREATION PATH$400
FISHERS ISLAND FIRE DEPT$400
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF DE$320
FISHERS ISLAND CONSERVANCY$250
LIMEN HOUSE$250
DELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY INC$250
DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE$250
HENRY L FERGUSON MUSEUM$250
DELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION$250
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GEOGRAPHY OF HOPE: $3k → 14%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $500 → 6%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $250 → 6%DELAWARE HOSPICE: $2k → 10%DELAWARE HOSPICE: $750 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
IL
NY
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
MD
DE
SC
DC

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$26k · 26 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
28

Total granted

$26k
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+18%

Still filing today

77%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • DH
    DELAWARE HOSPICE INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $3k · revenue +1%
  • IH
    ISLAND HEALTH PROJECT INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $900 · revenue +68%
  • FI
    FISHERS ISLAND RECREATIONAL PATH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2020 · $900 · revenue ×11

Funded once

  • TT
    THE TATNALL SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2019 · $95k · revenue -5%
  • EM
    Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -17%
  • GO
    Geography Of Hope
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -84%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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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2
Friends of the Delaware Canal Inc

The friends of the delaware canal is an independent, non-profit organization working to restore, preserve, and improve the delaware canal and its surroundings.

Environment
3
Delaware County Historical Society

Acquire and preserve property and information of historic value and/or interest concerning delaware county, pennsylvania. the society also operates a research library and museum.

Arts & Culture
4
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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5
Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy
6
The Forest Park Conservancy

To protect and restore the ecological health of forest park and marquam nature park, maintain and enhance their extensive trails networks, promote equitable access, and inspire diverse community appreciation and stewardship of these iconic…

Environment
7
Wilmington University Inc

Wilmington university is committed to excellence in teaching, relevancy of the curriculum, and individual attention to students. as an institution with admissions policies that provide access for all, it offers opportunity for higher…

Education
8
Delaware River Greenway Partnership Inc

Delaware River Greenway Partnership is a non-proift, non-partisan organization that educates the public in support of the natural and cultural resources along the Delaware River and its tributaries

Environment
9
Delaware Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Delaware spca is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty and the encouragement of humane treatment of all animals.

Animals
10
Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation

Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…

Environment
11
Wilmington Country Club

Each of the enumerated activities is substantially related and significantly contributes to the social interaction and camaraderie of the entire membership of the organization.

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12
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve

The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Nature Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Walsh Park Benevolent Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-8 SchoolsAffordable Housing Developm…Public Library SupportSubstance Abuse TreatmentCommunity Health CentersGovernment Accountability R…Classical Music EnsemblesVolunteer Fire DepartmentsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Child and Family ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and AdoptionHospice Care ServicesYouth Development CentersLand Conservation Organizat…Christian Missionary Organi…Community Arts Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 58 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number33%2%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr13%12%20–35yr9%26%35–55yr10%54%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value33%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr13%4%20–35yr9%6%35–55yr10%88%55yr+

The field is 33% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
2/46
the rest of the field
11%
1,086/9,962

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/42
Grantees still filing
25/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE TATNALL SCHOOL INC — $95,000 · EducationTHE TATNALL SCHOOL INC+3 more — $2,200 · EducationDELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC — $5,500 · OtherDELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE…THE PILOT SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $5,500 · OtherTHE PILOT SCHOOL INCORPOR…YALE UNIVERSITY — $2,500 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYWINTERTHUR — $2,500 · OtherWINTERTHURBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC — $2,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DEL…+30 more — $15,120 · Other+30 moreEleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ORPHEUS CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA — $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSIC SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC — $750 · Arts & CultureBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art — $750 · Arts & CultureHenry L Ferguson Museum — $500 · Arts & CultureGRAND OPERA HOUSE INC — $500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $200 · Arts & CultureGeography Of Hope — $3,000 · Human ServicesDELAWARE HOSPICE INC — $2,750 · Human ServicesCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE — $750 · Human ServicesDELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY INC — $650 · EnvironmentNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL — $500 · EnvironmentDELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC — $500 · EnvironmentFISHERS ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC — $500 · EnvironmentPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF DELAWARE INC — $1,000 · HealthISLAND HEALTH PROJECT INC — $900 · HealthPAWS FOR LIFE INC — $750 · AnimalsDELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $500 · AnimalsAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc — $100 · Animals
Education$97,200Other$33,620Arts & Culture$8,700Human Services$6,500Environment$2,150Health$1,900Animals$1,350

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TATNALL SCHOOL INC — $95,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PILOT SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeography Of Hope — $3,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDELAWARE HOSPICE INC — $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ORPHEUS CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOW COUNTRY INSTITUTE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLDFIELDS SCHOOL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF DELAWARE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MICHAEL'S SCHOOL AND NURSERY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S BEACH HOUSE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISHERS ISLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT — $900 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetISLAND HEALTH PROJECT INC — $900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFISHERS ISLAND RECREATIONAL PATH FOUNDATION — $900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSIC SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST CENTER CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC — $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS FOR LIFE INC — $750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY INC — $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHenry L Ferguson Museum — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND OPERA HOUSE INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTALLEYVILLE FIRE COMPANY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISHERS ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC — $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH JERSEY ROBOTICS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLIMEN HOUSE INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE WILD LANDS INC — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND PEOPLES PROJECT — $200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFISHERS ISLAND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC RED CLAY VALLEY INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE SAFETY COUNCIL INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALSH PARK BENEVOLENT CORPORATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Delaware Community Fo…Longwood Foundation I…Nor' Easter Foundatio…Crestlea Foundation I…Welfare Foundation IncMarmot FoundationChichester Dupont Fou…United Way of DelawareLaffey-McHugh Foundat…Ellason Downs Perpetu…Vinton Family Foundat…Rencourt Foundation I…
Delaware Community Foundation IncDE46.6× affinity21 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 · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Marmot Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · United Way of Delaware · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Ellason Downs Perpetual Charitable Trust · Vinton Family Foundation · Rencourt Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ederic Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • St Michael's School and Nursery Inc — 48% of income from government
  • Limen House Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Delaware Safety Council Inc — 31% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Delaware Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Delaware Nature Society Inc — 13% of income from government
  • The Music School of Delaware Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Grand Opera House Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Children's Beach House Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Serviam Girls Academy Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Delaware Hospice Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Pilot School Incorporated — 1% of income from government
  • Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Tatnall School Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ederic Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ederic Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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