· Private foundation
Frank and Yetta Chaiken Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $54,300 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE | $30,000 |
| SIEGEL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $4,300 |
| JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SELAWARE | $600 |
| ACLU OF DELAWARE | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $360 |
| REACH RIVERSIDE | $250 |
| FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE | $200 |
| LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS | $200 |
| HEALTH VOLUNTEERS OVERSEAS | $200 |
| HADASSAH INC | $180 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $150 |
| WHYY | $100 |
| TALLEYVILLE FIRE COMPANY | $75 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $750) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- KCKRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE INC6× · 2017–2022 · $130k · revenue +49%
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE2× · 2024–2025 · $89k · revenue +2%- FBFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $1k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $5k
- ACAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Delaware Incone grant, 2022 · $600 · revenue -8%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $360
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…
The delaware center for justice, inc. seeks to ensure an effective, efficient, and equitable system of justice in delaware through advocacy, direct services, research and public education.
Advocate for the rights and interests of its members and outstanding public education for all students.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Wilmington university is committed to excellence in teaching, relevancy of the curriculum, and individual attention to students. as an institution with admissions policies that provide access for all, it offers opportunity for higher…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
The organization monitors legislation that could impact civil liberties and takes the necessary action to support or oppose such legislation.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Delphi school's mission is to draw out the best in every student through effective educational materials and empower young adults to bring positive change in the world through reason, creativity and integrity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Delaware and the most unlike its peers is International Essential Tremor Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 33% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
43 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 67 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 KRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds THE BERNARD AND RUTH SIEGEL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds HEALTH VOLUNTEERS OVERSEAS INC ↗
- Who funds Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc ↗
- Who funds MILTON & HATTIE KUTZ HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ALBERT EINSTEIN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Delaware Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds OPERADELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSIC SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL NURSES ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE at GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Guttmacher Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds REACH RIVERSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · United Way of Delaware · Welfare Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · I Could Do Great Things Foundation · Samuel & Sarah Greenbaum Fund · The Diane and Harry Levin Foundation
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 Frank and Yetta Chaiken Foundation 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.
- Reach Riverside Development Corp — 100% of income from government
- Delaware Humanities Council — 100% of income from government
- Children and Families First — 87% of income from government
- United Way of Delaware — 58% of income from government
- Read-Aloud Delaware Inc — 45% of income from government
- Sojourners' Place — 30% of income from government
- The Ministry of Caring Inc — 30% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Delaware Inc — 19% of income from government
- National Association of School Nurses — 15% of income from government
- Delaware Symphony Association Inc — 11% of income from government
- Operadelaware Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Music School of Delaware Inc — 9% of income from government
- Delaware Theatre Company — 8% of income from government
- Jewish Federation of Delaware Inc — 6% of income from government
- Albert Einstein Academy — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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