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Happy Difference Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $154k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM | $62,500 |
| COMMUNITY EDUCATION BUILDING | $25,000 |
| WEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $25,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE | $25,000 |
| MINISTRY OF CARING | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE | $25,000 |
| LEWES PUBLIC LIBRARY | $17,225 |
| THE INDEPENDENCE SCHOOL | $11,500 |
| CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST | $9,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $7,500 |
| CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM | $6,000 |
| ACTION FOR DELAWARE'S CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| EASTERSEALS | $2,500 |
| THE PILOT SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| LA RED HEALTH CENTER | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- WEWEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue +23%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $110k · revenue +53%
- FBFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $92k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- AAASPIRA ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $10k
- DNDELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -44%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
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.
Strengthening the community by connecting people through charitable giving
To aggressively promote investment in muncie-delaware county which will result in the creation and retention of quality job opportunities and enhance the quality of life in our community.
To lead the state of delaware's economic development efforts.
To guide, serve and support delaware physicians, promoting the practice and profession of medicine to enhance the health of our communities.
The organization develops, facilitates, and oversees the implementation of collaborative efforts aimed at transforming the delivery of health care services in delaware.
To reduce the devastating long-term effects that child abuse has on children, their families and society through immediate, coordinated, child focused services, education, and advocacy.
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…
The friends of the delaware canal is an independent, non-profit organization working to restore, preserve, and improve the delaware canal and its surroundings.
Our mission is to strengthen delaware by maximizing community-based philanthropy.
The arc of delaware promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and actively supports full inclusion and participation in the community through advocacy and services to individuals and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Education Building Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 64 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 WEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENCE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST ↗
- Who funds THE MINISTRY OF CARING INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY EDUCATION BUILDING CORP ↗
- Who funds LEWES PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR DELAWARE'S CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAITHFUL FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds LA RED HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE MARY CAMPBELL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE HENLOPEN EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS DELAWARE & MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PILOT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds VETERINARY COMPARATIVE ONCOLOGY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels Delaware Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD 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: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · United Way of Delaware · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · 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 Happy Difference Foundation 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.
- Children and Families First — 87% of income from government
- Child Inc — 71% of income from government
- Community Education Building Corp — 64% of income from government
- La Red Health Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Christiana Care Health System Inc — 43% of income from government
- West End Neighborhood House Inc — 36% of income from government
- Challenge Program Inc — 36% of income from government
- The Ministry of Caring Inc — 30% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Lewes Public Library Inc — 27% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Faithful Friends Inc — 15% of income from government
- Delaware Nature Society Inc — 13% of income from government
- Delaware Children's Museum Inc — 11% of income from government
- Delaware Public Media Corporation — 11% of income from government
- Rehoboth Art League Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Mary Campbell Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Jewish Federation of Delaware Inc — 6% of income from government
- Grand Opera House Inc — 5% of income from government
- Dfrc Inc — 5% of income from government
- Cape Henlopen Educational Fund — 3% of income from government
- Beebe Medical Foundation — 2% of income from government
- The Pilot School Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
- The Independence School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Sanford School — 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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