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Middle Run Charitable 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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Education$428kEnvironment$338kHealth$305kHuman Services$300kHousing & Shelter$150kAnimals$75kArts & Culture$75kReligion$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k18 grants · $400k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $365k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$485k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DELAWARE BOTANIC GARDENS$250,000
THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION$100,000
FRIENDSHIP HOUSE$65,000
ST MICHAEL'S SCHOOL AND NURSERY$50,000
FAITHFUL FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$50,000
RED CLAY CREEK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$50,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY$50,000
SEAN LOCKE 24 FOUNDATION$45,000
READING ASSIST$30,000
GOOD NEIGHBORS HOME REPAIR$30,000
SAINT PATRICK'S CENTER$30,000
UPSTREAM ALLIANCE INC$25,000
KIND TO KIDS FOUNDATION$25,000
KINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER$25,000
REED'S REFUGE CENTER INC$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GOOD NEIGHBORS HOME REPAIR: $30k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $20k → 6%KINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES DELAWARE: $25k → 10%KINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES DELAWARE: $25k → 10%KIND TO KIDS FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%REED'S REFUGE CENTER INC: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$948k · 17 repeat orgs$873k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
10

Total granted

$948k
$288k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+3%

Still filing today

82%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $585k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +13%
  • SM
    ST MICHAEL'S SCHOOL AND NURSERY INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +22%
  • VISION TO LEARN
    3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • CE
    COMMUNITY EDUCATION BUILDING CORP
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +15%
  • NC
    NEMOURS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - DELAWARE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • FC
    FREIRE CHARTER SCHOOL WILMINGTON INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +3%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Early College School At Delaware State University

To provide highly motivated students with a curriculum that is integrated with the relevant curriculum at delaware state university such that all students graduate with one to two years of college credits, preparing them for completion of…

Education
2
Charter School of New Castle

A delaware charter school with a mission that acknowledges the learning differences of each individual child and nurtures the uniqueness of each family structure.

Education
3
First State Montessori Academy

The mission of the first state montessori academy is to create successful, contributing, life-long learners in a montessori public educational program for students in kindergarten through 8th grade.

Education
4
University of Delaware

The university of delaware is a major research university dedicated to cultivating learning, advancing knowledge, and fostering the exchange of ideas through teaching, research and public service.

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5
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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6
Catholic Scholars of De
Unclassified
7
Delaware Hospice Inc

Our mission is to support every individual, family, and community with compassionate and expert care for serious illness. this is accomplished through a variety of programs and services: delaware transitions, delaware palliative, delaware…

Human Services
8
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
9
Riverfront Development Corporation of Delaware

The mission of the riverfront development corporation of delaware is to create economic vitality along the brandywine and christina rivers, enhance the environment, encourage historic preservation, and promote community access. through…

Community Improvement
10
Preservation Delaware
Arts & Culture
11
Charter School Inc

To create and maintain an environment for learning that allows each student to maximize his or her potential in developing habbits of mind, acquiring knowledge and skills, and demonstrating individual and social responsibility through the…

Education
12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Center for Horticulture 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 23 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%3%<5yr17%10%5–10yr21%31%10–20yr14%14%20–35yr10%24%35–55yr11%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%7%<5yr17%4%5–10yr21%37%10–20yr14%8%20–35yr10%29%35–55yr11%16%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
11%
1,097/9,925

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.

04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
17/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY — $100,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NEW CASTLE COUNTYST MICHAEL'S SCHOOL AND NURSERY INC — $100,000 · OtherST MICHAEL'S SCHOOL AND NURSERY INCFAITHFUL FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $75,000 · OtherFAITHFUL FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYFRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC — $65,000 · OtherFRIENDSHIP HOUSE INCSAINT PATRICK'S CENTER — $55,000 · OtherSAINT PATRICK'S CENTERNEMOURS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - DELAWARE — $50,000 · OtherNEMOURS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - DELAWARERED CLAY CREEK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $50,000 · OtherRED CLAY CREEK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $40,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE INC — $35,000 · OtherTHE MINISTRY OF CARING INC — $30,000 · OtherSEAN LOCKE 24 FOUNDATION — $45,000 · OtherSEAN LOCKE 24 FOUNDATIONMeals on Wheels Delaware Inc — $30,000 · Other+6 more — $83,000 · Other+6 moreDELAWARE BOTANIC GARDENS INC — $250,000 · EnvironmentDELAWARE BOTANIC GARD…Upstream Alliance Inc — $65,000 · EnvironmentUpstream Alliance IncDELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC — $22,500 · EnvironmentDELAWARE CENTER FOR H…GOOD NEIGHBORS INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesGOOD NEIGHBO…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF DELAWARE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMIL…KINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesKINGSWOOD CO…REEDS REFUGE CENTER INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesREEDS REFUGE…KIND TO KIDS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human ServicesKIND TO KIDS…READING ASSIST INSTITUTE — $70,000 · EducationREADING ASS…THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $55,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFF…FREIRE CHARTER SCHOOL WILMINGTON INC — $50,000 · EducationFREIRE CHAR…CAB CALLOWAY SCHOOL FUND — $10,000 · EducationCAB CALLOWA…THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION — $100,000 · HealthTHE NEMOUR…VISION TO LEARN — $75,000 · HealthVISION TO …COMMUNITY EDUCATION BUILDING CORP — $100,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF COOCHS BRIDGE HISTORIC SITE INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND OPERA HOUSE INC — $45,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHOIR SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$758,000Environment$337,500Human Services$200,000Education$185,000Health$175,000Philanthropy$115,000Arts & Culture$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDELAWARE BOTANIC GARDENS INC — $250,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY — $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY EDUCATION BUILDING CORP — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST MICHAEL'S SCHOOL AND NURSERY INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetREADING ASSIST INSTITUTE — $70,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUpstream Alliance Inc — $65,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF DELAWARE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFREIRE CHARTER SCHOOL WILMINGTON INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGRAND OPERA HOUSE INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSEAN LOCKE 24 FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMeals on Wheels Delaware Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE MINISTRY OF CARING INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE REGION ACCESSIBLE BOATING INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetREEDS REFUGE CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetKIND TO KIDS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF COOCHS BRIDGE HISTORIC SITE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetCAB CALLOWAY SCHOOL FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CHOIR SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIVE ROOTS FARM FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budget
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.

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.

Delaware Community Fo…Laffey-McHugh Foundat…Crestlea Foundation I…Welfare Foundation IncWsfs Cares FoundationLongwood Foundation I…Chichester Dupont Fou…Ellice & Rosa McDonal…Marmot FoundationIncyte Charitable Giv…Nor' Easter Foundatio…Td Charitable Foundat…
Delaware Community Foundation IncDE51.8× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Longwood Foundation Inc · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation · Marmot Foundation · Incyte Charitable Giving Foundation · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Td Charitable 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 Middle Run Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Reading Assist Institute — 99% of income from government
  • Kind to Kids Foundation — 69% of income from government
  • Community Education Building Corp — 64% of income from government
  • Cab Calloway School Fund — 56% of income from government
  • St Michael's School and Nursery Inc — 48% of income from government
  • The Ministry of Caring Inc — 30% 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
  • Friends of Coochs Bridge Historic Site Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Kingswood Community Center Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Reeds Refuge Center Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Grand Opera House Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Delaware Botanic Gardens 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
  • Native Roots Farm Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Freire Charter School Wilmington Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Middle Run Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Middle Run Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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