· Private foundation
Laffey-McHugh 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k130 grants · $2.6M
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINISTRY OF CARING INC | $150,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE | $100,000 |
| MINISTRY OF CARING INC | $75,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA | $75,000 |
| YMCA OF DELAWARE | $75,000 |
| KIND TO KIDS FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| TEENSHARP | $75,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP HOUSE | $65,000 |
| DELAWARE COLLEGE SCHOLARS | $60,000 |
| URBANPROMISE WILMINGTON | $50,000 |
| PARTNERS FOR JUSTICE | $50,000 |
| METROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUE | $50,000 |
| READING ASSIST | $50,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $50,000 |
| COMBINED CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% 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 6% of Laffey-McHugh 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.
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 +22% for the ones you funded once.
138 repeat relationships — 99 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 46 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $765k 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
- TMTHE MINISTRY OF CARING INC5× · 2020–2024 · $990k · revenue +1%
- FBFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $550k · revenue +31%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE5× · 2020–2024 · $375k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- DSDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -4%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES INCone grant, 2022 · $100k
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +49%
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.
To lead the state of delaware's economic development efforts.
The organization develops, facilitates, and oversees the implementation of collaborative efforts aimed at transforming the delivery of health care services in delaware.
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 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.
The organization provides alternative dispute resolution services through delaware and chester counties.
The organization's mission is to maximize the community's resources to improve the quality of lives of all delawareans.
To eliminate the spread and stigma of hiv/aids, improve the lives of those living with hiv/aids, and promote community health through comprehensive and culturally-sensitive services, education programs and advocacy.
Our mission is to advance housing opportunities, end homelessness, and promote thriving communities for all.
The organization's mission is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in both the local and global economy through work readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy.
Advocate for the rights and interests of its members and outstanding public education for all students.
Provision of legal services.
Strengthening the community by connecting people through charitable giving
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sisters Supporting Sisters Foundation Sisters Foundation De. 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 26 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 35% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
216 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. 216 of the 306 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MINISTRY OF CARING INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds TEENSHARP ↗
- Who funds URBANPROMISE WILMINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds Sunday Breakfast Mission ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUEINC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COLLEGE SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMER LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST ↗
- Who funds WILMINGTON ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds KIND TO KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION F/K/A EASTSIDE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds KINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds READING ASSIST INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cambodian Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEADING YOUTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds WEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAEL'S SCHOOL AND NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds 4th Dimension Leaders Inc ↗
- Who funds Stehm Inc ↗
- Who funds RODNEY STREET TENNIS AND TUTORING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ZOE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds STRIVE HOW YOU LEAD MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHOIR SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds SERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER ↗
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 · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Incyte Charitable Giving Foundation · United Way of Delaware · Marmot Foundation · Milton and Hattie Kutz Foundation · Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation · The Anthony & Catherine Fusco 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 Laffey-McHugh 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.
- Reach Riverside Development Corp — 100% of income from government
- Christina Cultural Arts Center Inc — 100% of income from government
- Cornerstone West Community Dev Corp — 100% of income from government
- Love & Hope Rescue Mission — 100% of income from government
- Reading Assist Institute — 99% of income from government
- Connecting Generations — 89% of income from government
- Children and Families First — 87% of income from government
- The Gamma Theta Lambda Education Foundation — 87% of income from government
- A Better Chance for Our Children Inc — 85% of income from government
- Elizabeth W Murphey School Inc — 85% of income from government
- Community Collaboration of Delaware — 82% of income from government
- Delaware Futures Inc — 78% of income from government
- Delaware Adolescent Program Inc — 76% of income from government
- Wilmington Hope Commission Inc — 75% of income from government
- Family Promise of Northern New Castle County — 73% of income from government
- Delaware Center for Justice — 73% of income from government
- Child Inc — 71% of income from government
- Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Inc — 69% of income from government
- 4th Dimension Leaders Inc — 69% of income from government
- Kind to Kids Foundation — 69% of income from government
- Central Baptist Community Development Corporation — 60% of income from government
- Survivors of Abuse in Recovery Inc — 57% of income from government
- Culture Restoration Project in — 56% of income from government
- Cab Calloway School Fund — 56% of income from government
- The Summer Learning Collaborative Inc — 54% of income from government
- Impact Life Inc — 54% of income from government
- Cheer Inc — 51% of income from government
- La Red Health Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Ywca Delaware Inc — 50% of income from government
- Green Beret Project Inc — 49% of income from government
- True Access Capital Corporation — 48% of income from government
- St Michael's School and Nursery Inc — 48% of income from government
- Read-Aloud Delaware Inc — 45% of income from government
- Family Counseling Center of St Paul's — 41% of income from government
- Delaware Hiv Services Inc — 40% of income from government
- Leading Youth Through Empowerment Inc — 39% of income from government
- Limen House Inc — 38% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Society Inc — 38% of income from government
- Project New Start Inc — 37% of income from government
- West End Neighborhood House Inc — 36% of income from government
- Challenge Program Inc — 36% of income from government
- Neighborgood Partners Inc — 35% of income from government
- More Than Fitness Inc — 35% of income from government
- Latin American Community Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Delaware Health Empowerment Coalition Inc — 34% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc — 33% of income from government
- Delaware College of Art and Design — 32% of income from government
- Center for Structural Equity — 30% of income from government
- Sojourners' Place — 30% of income from government
- Literacy Delaware — 30% of income from government
- The Ministry of Caring Inc — 30% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Delaware Black Chamber of Commerce — 29% of income from government
- Teen Warehouse Inc — 28% of income from government
- Todmorden Foundation — 26% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Stehm Inc — 22% of income from government
- Sean Locke 24 Foundation — 21% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of New Castle County — 21% of income from government
- Plastic Free Delaware — 21% of income from government
- Network Connect Inc — 20% of income from government
- Wilmington Alliance Inc — 19% of income from government
- La Esperanza Inc — 19% of income from government
- Black Mothers in Power — 18% of income from government
- Delaware Shakespeare Festival Inc — 18% of income from government
- Delaware State University — 18% of income from government
- Delaware College Scholars Inc — 18% of income from government
- Neighborhood House Inc — 16% of income from government
- Delaware Zoological Society Inc — 16% of income from government
- Faithful Friends Inc — 15% of income from government
- Kalmar Nyckel Foundation — 14% of income from government
- Healthy Foods for Healthy Kids Inc — 14% of income from government
- Delaware Community Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
- Blindsight Delaware Enterprises Inc — 12% of income from government
- Teensharp — 11% of income from government
- The Newark Partnership Inc — 11% of income from government
- Delaware Children's Museum Inc — 11% of income from government
- Delaware Public Media Corporation — 11% of income from government
- Endless Possibilities in the Community — 11% of income from government
- Kingswood Community Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Wilmington Children's Chorus — 10% of income from government
- Operadelaware Inc — 9% of income from government
- Do Care Doula Foundation Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Music School of Delaware Inc — 9% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Reeds Refuge Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Sussex Montessori School Inc — 9% of income from government
- First State Ballet Theatre Inc — 8% of income from government
- Delaware Theatre Company — 8% of income from government
- Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% of income from government
- Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition Inc — 7% of income from government
- Edge for Tomorrow — 7% of income from government
- First State Squash Inc — 7% of income from government
- Zoe Ministries Inc — 6% 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
- Little Sisters of the Poor Inc — 5% of income from government
- Children's Beach House Inc — 5% of income from government
- Delaware Pacem in Terris Inc — 4% of income from government
- Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc — 4% of income from government
- Special Olympics Delaware Inc — 3% of income from government
- Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cityfest Inc — 3% of income from government
- Spur Impact Association — 3% of income from government
- Leadership Delaware Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Delaware Contemporary Arts Inc Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Delaware Institute for the Arts in Educa — 2% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Ingleside Homes Inc — 2% of income from government
- Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc — 2% of income from government
- Serviam Girls Academy Inc — 2% of income from government
- Harry K Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Albert Einstein Academy — 1% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Delaware — 1% of income from government
- Tomaros Change — 1% of income from government
- Exceptional Care for Children — 0% of income from government
- Mental Health Association in Delaware Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tower Hill School Association — 0% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of Delaware — 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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