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Garbutt Family Charitable Trust Wilmington Trust Company
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Garbutt Family Charitable Trust Wilmington Trust Company’s FY2025 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Garbutt Family Charitable Trust Wilmington Trust Company named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $20k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of GARBUTT FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST 099427-000’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILFORD ROTARY CLUB - 2 SCHOLARSHIPS | $3,500 |
| DELAWARE TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE SCH | $2,600 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $2,084 |
| BEEBE TUNNEL CANCER CENTER - BREAST CN | $2,000 |
| WASHINGTON COLLEGE - WASHINGTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $1,800 |
| AVENUE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH PRE-SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $1,000 |
| DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DT & CC STUDY ABROAD SCHOLARSHIPS & GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING SERIES | $1,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF DE - MILFORD PROJECTS | $800 |
| MILFORD MEMORIAL HOSP AUX SCH FUND BAY HEALTH SUSSEX CAMPUS | $750 |
| GREATER MILFORD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $700 |
| THE HARRY K FOUNDATION HARRY K FOOD-BACKPACK PROGRAM DE | $500 |
| BRANDYWINE SPCA GEORGETOWN ANIMAL HEALTH CENTER | $500 |
| HOME OF THE BRAVE FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
| CHILDREN'S BEACH HOUSE | $300 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 49% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +140% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MHMILFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY3× · 2020–2024 · $14k · revenue ×14
- THTHE HOME OF THE BRAVE FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +31%
- MMMILFORD MUSEUM AND LANDMARKS COMMISSION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $300 · revenue +229%
Funded once
- MBMARINERS' BETHEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $5k
- DTDELAWARE TECH & COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $3k
- DTDELAWARE TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE SCHone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Sharing personal stories of defending coastal delaware by us military forces and civilians; and showing how their actions shaped and influenced community life in delaware.
The Society was formed to study the history of Haddonfield, NJ and to collect and preserve articles of historic value, to establish and maintain a historical library, and to publish historical information.
To preserve, protect, and present the history of the Town of Seaford Delaware.
To collect and preserve Miford, Connecticut antiquities and to encourage historical investigation.
The manchester historical society educates the public about the history of manchester, connecticut; collects, preserves, interprets, and exhibits information and artifacts about the town and its diverse population, and advocates for the…
Support of higher education including the university of sussex and charitable purposes that further the exempt activities of the university of sussex.
To preserve the diverse history of cape may county for the education, enlightment and pleasure of present and future generations.
Historical Association To research, gather, collect and perpetuate the history of Long Beach Island and to continue to record history of LBI and to collect, codify and maintain a collection
The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ocean View Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 37 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds MILFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE BRAVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BEACH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AUXILIARY OF BAYHEALTH SUSSEX CAMPUS ↗
- Who funds HARRY K FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILFORD MUSEUM AND LANDMARKS COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN VIEW HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SOUTH COASTAL LIBRARY 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.
Open a dossier: The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Garbutt Family Charitable Trust Wilmington Trust Company 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.
- Ocean View Historical Society — 100% of income from government
- Milford Museum and Landmarks Commission Inc — 74% of income from government
- Milford Historical Society — 24% of income from government
- Delaware Community Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Home of the Brave Foundation — 8% of income from government
- Children's Beach House Inc — 5% of income from government
- Harry K Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Washington College — 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.