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First State Community Action Agency Inc

To lessen the effects of the conditions of poverty on low-income residents of delaware and to work toward eliminating the causes of poverty.

$509k
Granted FY2017
5
Grants FY2017
1
States reached
$241k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $479k
$93,003
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MINISTRY OF CARING$240,691
DOVER INTERFAITH MISSION$95,040
Individual grant recipient$93,003
PEOPLES PLACE II$50,000
LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER$30,196
02The need
02

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $80k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PEOPLES PLACE II: $50k → 10%LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 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.

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 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
Community Dispute Settlement Program of Delaware County Inc

The organization provides alternative dispute resolution services through delaware and chester counties.

2
Christian Ministries of Delaware

As a witness of jesus christ as god provided, seeks to serve the pysical needs of all people

3
Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery

See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…

Health
4
Light of Life Ministries Inc

Light of life transforms lives through the love of christ by providing food, shelter, and hope to men, women, and children experiencing homelessness, poverty, or addiction to restore them as healthy members of our community.

Human Services
5
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh

Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…

Human Services
6
Delaware Center for Homeless Veterans Inc

Provide housing and supportive services for homeless veterans and their family

Public Benefit
7
Womens Resource Center of Newport and Bristol Counties

The women's resource center empowers survivors by providing trauma-informed services with equity and compassion while working collaboratively with the community to eliminate the root causes of interpersonal abuse.

Human Services
8
Central Delaware Housing Collaborative Inc

To help low income and homeless woman and families find shelter and secure housing in central delaware.

Housing & Shelter
9
Catholic Charities Diocese of Metuchen

Driven by the social teachings of the church,catholic charities, diocese of metuchen provides quality services to the poor, vulnerable and all people in need, and partners with families and communities to improve the quality of life.

10
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc was established to provide comprehensive services to individuals/families with special needs to enable them to reach their highest level of independence and integration into the community.

Human Services
11
Interdemoninational Ministers Action Council of De

The mission of IMAC is to become a cutting-edge organization, representing the Kindgom of God, bringing about spiritual, social, and economic transformation and renewal in the Greater Wilmington Community.

Religion
12
Good Samaritan Mission Inc

To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Patrick's Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Latin American Community Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE MINISTRY OF CARING INC — $240,691 · OtherTHE MINISTRY OF CARING INCIndividual grant recipient — $93,003 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDOVER INTERFAITH MISSION FOR HOUSING INC — $95,040 · Housing & ShelterDOVER INTERFAITH MISS…PEOPLE'S PLACE II INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE'S PLACE II…LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $30,196 · Human ServicesLATIN AMERICAN CO…
Other$333,694Housing & Shelter$95,040Human Services$80,196

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MINISTRY OF CARING INC — $240,691 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetDOVER INTERFAITH MISSION FOR HOUSING INC — $95,040 over 8y, 16% of budgetPEOPLE'S PLACE II INC — $50,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $30,196 over 4y, 0.6% 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.

  • Who funds THE MINISTRY OF CARING INC
  • Who funds DOVER INTERFAITH MISSION FOR HOUSING INC
  • Who funds PEOPLE'S PLACE II INC
  • Who funds LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER 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.

Delaware Community Foundation IncDE30× affinity12 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 · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · United Way of Delaware · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Christiana Care Health Services Inc · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable 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 First State Community Action Agency 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 34%
  • People's Place Ii Inc51% of income from government
  • Latin American Community Center Inc34% of income from government
  • The Ministry of Caring Inc30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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 5 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $425k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2017, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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