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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 it funds
01FY2017 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Community Dispute Settlement Program of Delaware County Inc

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

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2
Christian Ministries of Delaware

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

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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.

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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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Patrick's Center Inc; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 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 ↗

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization First State Community Action Agency Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First State Community Action Agency Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 34%
  • People's Place Ii Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Latin American Community Center Inc: 34% of income from government
  • The Ministry of Caring Inc: 30% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 5 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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