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Ellason Downs Perpetual Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k42 grants · $242k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $148k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN DELAWARE | $36,700 |
| CHRIST CHURCH-RECTOR'S DISCRT FUND | $32,551 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PA CLASS OF 1929 | $16,700 |
| CHURCH FARM SCHOOL | $15,850 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PA ALUMNI SOCIETY OF DELAW | $11,707 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DELAWARE | $11,700 |
| DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC | $11,700 |
| GERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL | $10,850 |
| DELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY INC | $5,850 |
| HARDING UNIVERSITY | $5,850 |
| DELAWARE FEDERATION OF GARDEN CLUBS | $5,850 |
| WINTERTHUR MUSEUM INC | $5,850 |
| DELAWARE WILD LANDS INC | $5,850 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $5,850 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY DELAWARE | $5,850 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
55 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BRBRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE5× · 2021–2025 · $45k · revenue +84%
WHYY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $34k · revenue +8%
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION5× · 2021–2025 · $28k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- EDEPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF DEone grant, 2023 · $32k
- CCCHRIST CHURCH CHRISTIANA HUNDREDone grant, 2022 · $31k
- EDEPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF DELAWAREone grant, 2021 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…
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…
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…
To promote and strengthen the bioscience industry in the state of delaware.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Drwc's mission is to maintain and promote the use and development of the city of philadelphia's waterfront. this task is of vital importance to the city and one which the city would otherwise be rquired to perform absent the drwc.
To guide, serve and support delaware physicians, promoting the practice and profession of medicine to enhance the health of our communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Lung Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 69 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 75 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Church Farm School ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE WILD LANDS INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE PILOT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Harding University Inc ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RUMFORD HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds INGLESIDE HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds DFRC INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSIC SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OLD BRANDYWINE VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE SAFETY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds LIMEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · United Way of Delaware · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Ederic Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Marmot Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
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 Ellason Downs Perpetual Charitable Trust 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.
- Old Brandywine Village Inc — 76% of income from government
- Delaware Academy of Medicine Inc — 75% of income from government
- United Way of Delaware — 58% 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
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Historical Society of Delaware — 18% of income from government
- Delaware Nature Society Inc — 13% of income from government
- Delaware Community Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
- Delaware Symphony Association Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Music School of Delaware Inc — 9% of income from government
- Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% of income from government
- Grand Opera House Inc — 5% of income from government
- Dfrc Inc — 5% of income from government
- Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc — 4% of income from government
- Ingleside Homes Inc — 2% of income from government
- St Francis Hospital Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rider University — 1% of income from government
- The Pilot School Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Delaware — 1% of income from government
- Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.