Delaware · Private foundation
Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $127,980
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 43
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $29M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $412k 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 | 47 | $2.1M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $1.7M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $1.7M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $1.8M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $1.7M | 18% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $1.7M | 15% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $1.7M | 25% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $1.7M | 26% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc | $874,558 | 9 | 5% |
| Delaware Military Academy | $800,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Faithful Friends Inc | $775,000 | 9 | 4% |
| The Ministry of Caring Inc | $675,000 | 9 | 1% |
| First State Squash Inc | $650,000 | 9 | 33% |
| Delaware Wild Lands Inc | $515,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Food Bank of Delaware Inc | $450,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Michael's School and Nursery Inc | $430,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Historic Odessa Foundation | $428,759 | 7 | 6% |
| Tower Hill School Association | $372,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Welfare Foundation Inc · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Marmot Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · United Way of Delaware · Incyte Charitable Giving Foundation · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation
- How much does Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation give?
- Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $2,111,710 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Human Services (15%), Environment (12%).
- Who are Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc ($875k), Delaware Military Academy ($800k), Faithful Friends Inc ($775k).
- Does Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaware Community Foundation Inc, Longwood Foundation Inc, Crestlea Foundation Inc.
- Where is Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation based?
- Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation is based in DE.
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