· Private foundation
I Could Do Great Things Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $107k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $515k
- $250k+2 grants · $635k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE HILLEL | $333,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE | $302,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY | $140,000 |
| THE WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS | $100,000 |
| SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK | $100,000 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM | $18,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| ODYSSEY CHARTER SCHOOL | $16,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $10,000 |
| JEWBELONG | $10,000 |
| MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA | $10,000 |
| SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $7,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 45% of I Could Do Great Things Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 34% of the giving stays in DE; read by stated purpose it is 14% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 5 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k 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
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND7× · 2018–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +57%
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE8× · 2017–2024 · $345k · revenue +37%- SCSECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC3× · 2021–2024 · $330k · revenue +198%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DELWARE HILLELone grant, 2022 · $200k
- KCKRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFEone grant, 2018 · $100k
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH OF ISRAELone grant, 2021 · $54k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Nagen Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kids At Play Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 110 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 THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NAGEN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ELKSTONE CARES INC ↗
- Who funds WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWBELONG INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds ODYSSEY CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COMBAT HATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LAWFARE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COOPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RODNEY STREET TENNIS AND TUTORING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
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: Longwood Foundation Inc · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Frank and Yetta Chaiken Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Kimmel-Spiller Charitable Foundation · 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 I Could Do Great Things 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
- Trap Pond Partners Inc — 47% of income from government
- The Ministry of Caring Inc — 30% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Delaware Inc — 19% of income from government
- Delaware Zoological Society Inc — 16% of income from government
- Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Jewish Federation of Delaware Inc — 6% of income from government
- Odyssey Charter School Inc — 3% of income from government
- Odyssey Charter School — 2% of income from government
- The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Wilmington University Inc — 1% of income from government
- Albert Einstein Academy — 1% 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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