Pennsylvania · Public charity
Foundation for Delaware County
The mission of the FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY is to ensure an equitable, vibrant future for delaware county by promoting generosity, inspiring participation and partnership across our communities, and improving the quality of life for all. One of over 700 community foundations across the country and the largest philanthropy in…
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 65
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 60
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 83
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $83M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Foundation for Delaware County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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 | 56 | $1.5M | 14% |
| FY2024 | 60 | $1.6M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $2.0M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 61 | $1.8M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 67 | $2.3M | 37% |
| FY2020 | 83 | $1.5M | 58% |
| FY2019 | 47 | $1.2M | 91% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $233k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys' & Girls' Club of Chester | $525,301 | 8 | 15% |
| Casa Youth Advocates Inc | $441,409 | 6 | 11% |
| Share Food Program | $388,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Senior Community Services Inc | $385,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Chespenn Health Services Inc | $370,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Chester Education Foundation | $305,690 | 5 | 15% |
| Surrey Services for Seniors Inc | $301,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Ccsa Foundation | $285,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Children First PA | $268,223 | 5 | 4% |
| The Elwyn Foundation | $246,160 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 162 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Foundation for Delaware County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 138 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: Ethel S C Smith No 5 Charitable Tw · The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Community's Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Independence Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About Foundation for Delaware County
- How much does Foundation for Delaware County give?
- Foundation for Delaware County reported 65 itemized grants totaling $1,557,568, out of $2,124,358 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 83 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Foundation for Delaware County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (19%), Education (18%), Human Services (17%).
- Who are Foundation for Delaware County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Boys' & Girls' Club of Chester ($525k), Casa Youth Advocates Inc ($441k), Share Food Program ($388k).
- Does Foundation for Delaware County fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Foundation for Delaware County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ethel S C Smith No 5 Charitable Tw, The Philadelphia Foundation, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey.
- Where is Foundation for Delaware County based?
- Foundation for Delaware County is based in PA.
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