Delaware · Private foundation
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.
- $280k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2024
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $62,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 43
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Happy Difference Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 38 | $255k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $229k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $223k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $268k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $231k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congregation Beth Shalom Inc | $187,500 | 3 | n/a |
| West End Neighborhood House Inc | $115,000 | 5 | 1% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $110,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Delaware Inc | $92,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Nemours Foundation | $80,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Independence School Inc | $52,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Children and Families First | $47,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Ministry of Caring Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Community Education Building Corp | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lewes Public Library Inc | $20,725 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($238k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Happy Difference Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About Happy Difference Foundation
- How much does Happy Difference Foundation give?
- Happy Difference Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $279,775 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 43 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Happy Difference Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (19%), Religion (16%), Education (12%).
- Who are Happy Difference Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Congregation Beth Shalom Inc ($188k), West End Neighborhood House Inc ($115k), American Heart Association Inc ($110k).
- Does Happy Difference Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Happy Difference Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Happy Difference Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaware Community Foundation Inc, Longwood Foundation Inc, Welfare Foundation Inc.
- Where is Happy Difference Foundation based?
- Happy Difference Foundation is based in DE.
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