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Henry Topel Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Henry Topel Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1k
Granted FY2019
4
Grants FY2019
3
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Philanthropy$5kArts & Culture$4kRecreation & Sports$3kAnimals$3kEducation$3kHealth$2kReligion$492Youth Development$400Other$0
02FY2019 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRIAD ADDICTION RECOVERY SERVICES$1,000
ATTIC YOUTH CENTER$100
CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION$100
CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM$96
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 6% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%JOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE: $250 → 10%BRANDYWINE CONSERVATORY: $300 → 6%ATTIC YOUTH CENTER: $200 → 22%RABBI JACOB JOSEPH SCHOOL: $200 → 20%OPERATION SONG: $500 → 14%AFRICA YOGA PROJECT: $330 → 8%CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION: $100 → 9%CHILDREN'S BEACH OF DELAWARE: $3k → 10%MINSTRY OF CARING: $200 → 10%ATTIC YOUTH CENTER: $100 → 22%RABBI JACOB JOSEPH SCHOOL: $200 → 20%CHILDREN'S BEACH OF DELAWARE: $500 → 10%DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%ATTIC YOUTH CENTER: $100 → 22%REHOBOTH BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1k → 10%DELAWARE HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 10%REHOBOTH BEACH FILM SOCIETY: $450 → 10%DELAWARE HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 10%AMERICAN WARRIOR INITIATIVE: $250 → 10%TRIAD ADDICTION RECOVERY SERVICES: $1k → 10%REHOBOTH BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $250 → 10%TRIAD ADDICTION RECOVERY SERVICES: $600 → 10%TRIAD ADDICTION RECOVERY SERVICES: $100 → 10%DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $100 → 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $3k → 10%DELAWRAE HOSPICE: $100 → 10%CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM: $200 → 10%CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM: $196 → 10%CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM: $96 → 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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10k · 7 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2019, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

$10k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+29%

Still filing today

29%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentInternationalHealthOther
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

  • CB
    CHILDREN'S BEACH OF DELAWARE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k
  • DH
    DELAWARE HUMANE SOCIETY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k
  • TA
    TRIAD ADDICTION RECOVERY SERVICES
    3× · 2017–2019 · $2k

Funded once

  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWAREgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +29%
  • JM
    JOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +255%
  • OS
    OPERATION SONG INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +211%
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
Delaware State University

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…

Education
2
Delaware Valley University

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…

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3
Delaware Agricultural Museum Association

The organization's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history and technology of delaware and the delmarva peninsula's farm life/culture and to offer public education programs and services related to aspects of the…

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4
Delaware County Foundation

Strengthening the community by connecting people through charitable giving

Philanthropy
5
Delaware Center for Justice

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.

Crime & Legal
6
Medical Society of Delaware

To guide, serve and support delaware physicians, promoting the practice and profession of medicine to enhance the health of our communities.

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7
Delaware Nature Society Inc

Delaware nature society connects people with the natural world to improve our environment through education, advocacy, and conservation.

Environment
8
Delaware Bioscience Association Inc

To promote and strengthen the bioscience industry in the state of delaware.

Community Improvement
9
Rehoboth Beach Public Library Inc

Public library

Education
10
The Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia

The rosenbach museum & library is a community that engages with and celebrates the art of the written word using our collection of rare books and manuscripts.

Arts & Culture
11
Delaware Art Museum Inc

The museum's mission is to connect people to art, offering an inclusive and essential community resource that through its collections, exhibitions, and programs generates creative energy that sustains, enriches, empowers, and inspires.

Arts & Culture
12
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Attic Youth Center. 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 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
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

CHILDREN'S BEACH OF DELAWARE: $3,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S BEACH OF DELAWAREDELAWARE HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,957 · OtherDELAWARE HUMANE SOCIETYUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $2,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARETRIAD ADDICTION RECOVERY SERVICES: $1,700 · OtherTRIAD ADDICTION RECOVERY SERVICESCONGREGATION BETH SHALOM INC: $492 · Other+7 more: $1,600 · Other+7 moreDELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyDELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDAT…JOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Arts & CultureJOSHUA M FREEMAN FO…REHOBOTH BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,250 · Arts & CultureREHOBOTH BEACH HIST…OPERATION SONG INC: $500 · Arts & CultureOPERATION SONG INCREHOBOTH BEACH FILM SOCIETY: $450 · Arts & CultureREHOBOTH BEACH FILM…THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER: $400 · Youth DevelopmentAFRICA YOGA PROJECT INC: $330 · InternationalCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY: $100 · Health
Other$12,249Philanthropy$5,000Arts & Culture$3,700Youth Development$400International$330Health$100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREHOBOTH BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION SONG INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREHOBOTH BEACH FILM SOCIETY: $450 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICA YOGA PROJECT INC: $330 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Longwood Foundation I…Welfare Foundation IncDelaware Community Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Longwood Foundation IncDE15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Longwood Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Henry Topel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry Topel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Joshua M Freeman Foundation: 20% of income from government
  • Delaware Community Foundation Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Rehoboth Beach Historical Society: 10% of income from government
  • Rehoboth Beach Film Society: 9% of income from government
  • Jewish Federation of Delaware Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 20 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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