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Garbutt Family Charitable Trust Wilmington Trust Company at a glance

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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.

$20k
Granted FY2020
22
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

8
’20
8
’21
1
’22
0
’23
1
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$121kHealth$66kEducation$20kArts & Culture$15kReligion$7kFood & Nutrition$3kHuman Services$2kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2020 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$700
Median grant
3
States reached
$789k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
DT & CC STUDY ABROAD SCHOLARSHIPS & GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING SERIES$1,000
AVENUE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH PRE-SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND$1,000
DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$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
HOME OF THE BRAVE FOUNDATION INC$500
BRANDYWINE SPCA GEORGETOWN ANIMAL HEALTH CENTER$500
THE HARRY K FOUNDATION HARRY K FOOD-BACKPACK PROGRAM DE$500
CHILDREN'S BEACH HOUSE$300
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 7%MARINER'S BETHEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $5k → 10%ST STEPHENS LUTHERAN CHURCH FOOD PANTRY: $500 → 10%BAYHEALTH FOUNDATION-SUSSEX CAMPUS: $10k → 11%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $38k → 7%WASHINGTON COLLEGE-WASHINGTON: $2k → 12%SAINT MARTIN'S: $300 → 13%OCEAN VIEW HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $200 → 10%OLD SWEDES CHURCH FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%BAYHEALTH FOUNDATION-SUSSEX CAMPUS: $500 → 11%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $36k → 7%WASHINGTON COLLEGE - WASHINGTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $2k → 12%CHILDREN'S BEACH HOUSE: $300 → 10%MIMOSA MINISTRY INC: $500 → 11%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $35k → 7%DELAWARE TECH & COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $3k → 10%CHILDREN'S BEACH HOUSE: $300 → 10%MIMOSA MINISTRY INC: $300 → 11%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $5k → 7%DELAWARE TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE SCH: $3k → 10%BRANDYWINE SPCA GEORGETOWN ANIMAL HEALTH CENTER: $500 → 10%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $3k → 7%DT 2CC-STUDY ABROAD SCHOLARSHIP &: $1k → 10%ST GERTRUDE MONASTERY: $500 → 10%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $2k → 7%FRIENDS OF THE SOUTH COASTAL LIBRARY: $250 → 10%DT & CC STUDY ABROAD SCHOLARSHIPS & GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING SERIES: $1k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE SOUTH COASTAL LIBRARY SOUTH COASTAL LIBRARY: $250 → 10%BRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA: $200 → 10%MILFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $14k → 10%MILFORD ROTARY CLUB- 2 SCHOLARSHIPS: $4k → 10%MILFORD ROTARY CLUB - 2 SCHOLARSHIPS: $4k → 10%HOME OF THE BRAVE FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 10%FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE-MILFORD PROJECTS: $1k → 10%AVENUE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $1k → 10%AVENUE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH PRE-SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1k → 10%FOOD BANK OF DE - MILFORD PROJECTS: $800 → 10%MILFORD MEMORIAL HOSP AUX SCH FUND BAY HEALTH SUSSEX CAMPUS: $750 → 10%GREATER MILFORD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $700 → 10%GREATER MILFORD BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $700 → 10%AUXILLARY OF BAYHEALTH SUSSEX CAPUS: $500 → 10%HOME OF THE BRAVE FOUNDATION INC: $500 → 10%MILFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $300 → 10%FRIENDS OF THE MILFORD MUSEUM: $200 → 10%MILFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $200 → 10%BEEBE TUNNEL CANCER-BREAST CANCER: $50k → 10%BEEBE TUNNEL CANCER CENTER - BREAST CN: $2k → 10%BEEBE TUNNEL CANCER-BREAST CANCER: $2k → 10%THE HARRY K FOUNDATION HARRY K FOOD-BACKPACK PROGRAM DE: $500 → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$89k · 11 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +140% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
24

Total granted

$89k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+140%
+29%

Still filing today

45%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MH
    MILFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2020–2024 · $14k · revenue ×14
  • TH
    THE HOME OF THE BRAVE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +31%
  • MM
    MILFORD MUSEUM AND LANDMARKS COMMISSION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $300 · revenue +229%

Funded once

  • MB
    MARINERS' BETHEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • DT
    DELAWARE TECH & COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • DT
    DELAWARE TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE SCH
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Preservation Delaware
Arts & Culture
2
Milford Historical Society
—
3
Fort Miles Museum and Historical Area Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Sandwich Historical Society
Arts & Culture
5
Historical Society of Haddonfield

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Seaford Historical Society

To preserve, protect, and present the history of the Town of Seaford Delaware.

—
7
The Milford Historical Society Incorporated

To collect and preserve Miford, Connecticut antiquities and to encourage historical investigation.

—
8
Manchester Historical Society Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Friends of the University of Sussex

Support of higher education including the university of sussex and charitable purposes that further the exempt activities of the university of sussex.

International
10
Cape May County Historical and Genealogical Society

To preserve the diverse history of cape may county for the education, enlightment and pleasure of present and future generations.

—
11
Long Beach Island Historical Association

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

—
12
Montauk Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $119,334 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyBEEBE TUNNEL CANCER-BREAST CANCER: $52,000 · OtherBEEBE TUNNEL CANCER-BREAST CANCERMILFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $14,000 · OtherMILFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETYBAYHEALTH FOUNDATION-SUSSEX CAMPUS: $10,500 · OtherBAYHEALTH FOUNDATION-SUSSEX CAMPUSMILFORD ROTARY CLUB- 2 SCHOLARSHIPS: $7,500 · OtherMILFORD ROTARY CLUB- 2 SCHOLARSHIPSMARINERS' BETHEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $4,500 · Other+27 more: $24,600 · Other+27 moreWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $1,800 · EducationHARRY K FOUNDATION: $500 · EducationOCEAN VIEW HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $300 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$121,334Other$113,100Education$2,300Arts & Culture$300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $119,334 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMILFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $14,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetDELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOME OF THE BRAVE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S BEACH HOUSE INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AUXILIARY OF BAYHEALTH SUSSEX CAMPUS: $500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHARRY K FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILFORD MUSEUM AND LANDMARKS COMMISSION INC: $300 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOCEAN VIEW HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SOUTH COASTAL LIBRARY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.3% 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 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 ↗

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.

The Carl M Freeman Fo…Crestlea Foundation I…Welfare Foundation IncLongwood Foundation I…Delaware Community Fo…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Carl M Freeman Foundation IncDE15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Garbutt Family Charitable Trust Wilmington Trust Company funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Garbutt Family Charitable Trust Wilmington Trust Company. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2rely 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 37 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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