· Private foundation
Fair Play Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $288k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $380k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAUNA AND FLORA INTERNATIONAL | $75,000 |
| DELAWARE WILD LANDS | $70,000 |
| WILD EARTH ALLIES | $70,000 |
| CONSERVATION FUND | $60,000 |
| DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE | $55,000 |
| HAGLEY MUSEUM & LIBRARY | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FIRST STATE INC | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| WINTERTHUR MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $25,000 |
| DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE | $25,000 |
| CHALLENGE PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| OUTWARD BOUND USA | $15,000 |
| BRIGHT'S CREEK CONSERVANCYINC | $12,500 |
| US SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Fair Play Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 48% of the giving stays in DE; by stated purpose, 45%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $370k · revenue +26%- DMDELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $328k · revenue +2%
- DWDELAWARE WILD LANDS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $320k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- NRNATIVE ROOTS FARM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $20k
- LILENAPE INDIAN TRIBE OF DELAWARE INCone grant, 2022 · $10k
- AHANDRE HARVEY CREATIVE FELLOWSHIP LONGWOOD GARDENSone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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.
Delaware nature society connects people with the natural world to improve our environment through education, advocacy, and conservation.
The friends of the delaware canal is an independent, non-profit organization working to restore, preserve, and improve the delaware canal and its surroundings.
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…
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…
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.
To conserve and support the resiliency of the natural resources in the upper delaware river region by working with willing landowners and by providing conservation education programs at our van scott nature reserve.
Conserve wildlife foundation of new jersey works to preserve rare and at-risk wildlife in new jersey through field science, habitat restoration, education, and public engagement.
The Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art preserves and presents elements of art and nature that highlight the extraordinary beauty of the Brandywine region in Pennsylvania and Delaware. The Brandywine Conservancy protects and conserves…
Partnership for the delaware estuary, inc. (pde), host of the delaware estuary program, leads collaborative, science-based efforts to improve the delaware river and bay, which covers portions of delaware, new jersey, and pennsylvania.
The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…
The mission of Historic Wilmington Foundation is to protect and preserve the irreplaceable historic resources of Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear Region.
How this is measured
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 67 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE WILD LANDS INC ↗
- Who funds Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FIRST STATE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wild Earth Allies Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED STATES SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE 1103 MARKET STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ODESSA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAEL'S SCHOOL AND NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds URBANPROMISE WILMINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN VIEW HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASHLEY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LEWES COMMUNITY VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds NATIVE ROOTS FARM FOUNDATION ↗
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: Welfare Foundation Inc · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Marmot Foundation · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation · Sharp Foundation · Wakefield Family Fund Inc · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Rencourt Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fair Play Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fair Play Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Ocean View Historical Society: 100% of income from government
- St Michael's School and Nursery Inc: 48% of income from government
- Challenge Program Inc: 36% of income from government
- Historical Society of Delaware: 18% of income from government
- Greater Lewes Community Village: 16% of income from government
- Kalmar Nyckel Foundation: 14% of income from government
- Delaware Community Foundation Inc: 13% of income from government
- Friends of Coochs Bridge Historic Site Inc: 12% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- First State Squash Inc: 7% of income from government
- The Mary Campbell Center Inc: 6% of income from government
- Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc: 4% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc: 2% of income from government
- Native Roots Farm Foundation: 2% of income from government
- Historic Odessa Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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