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Nor' Easter Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$773k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
82
Grants FY2025
68
Organizations funded FY2024
3%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$343,000
Organizations funded a year
68 to 91
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$6.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Nor' Easter Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving82$773k5%
FY202468$710k3%
FY202391$788k12%
FY202285$707k41%
FY202178$579k19%
FY202084$605k15%
FY201980$701k34%
FY201868$750kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.1MEducation$931kReligion$387kHealth$264kRecreation & Sports$250kEnvironment$248kHuman Services$105kYouth Development$92kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
MT
MN
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MD
DE
NC
SC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 74 grantees
All grantees of Nor' Easter Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc$839,60034%
Trinity-Pawling School Corporation$101,00040%
The Discovery Museum Inc$100,00016%
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc$97,00081%
Cardigan Mountain School$86,00040%
Friendship House Inc$61,0008n/a
Brandywine Red Clay Alliance$57,50043%
Christiana Care Health System Inc$56,00071%
Reach Riverside Development Corp$55,00040%
Historic Red Clay Valley Inc$50,00022%
Delaware Nature Society Inc$45,50070%
Gulf Stream School Inc$40,00040%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc$40,00040%
Serviam Girls Academy Inc$40,00081%
Project New Start Inc$40,00082%
The 1103 Market Street Foundation$38,50088%
Friends of Auburn Heights Inc$34,00073%
University of Delaware$33,00030%
Coast Guard Foundation Inc$33,00040%
Blood Cancer United Inc$28,50040%
University of New England$20,00040%
Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art$20,00040%
Lewes Junction Railroad and Bridge Association Inc$20,000141%
Mystic Seaport Museum Inc$20,00040%
Partners for World Health$20,00041%
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc$20,00040%
Delaware Botanic Gardens Inc$19,00071%
Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc$17,00081%
Delaware Futures Inc$16,00081%
Canine Partners for Life$13,00040%
Bridgeport Hospital Foundation Inc$12,00040%
International Mountain Bicycling Association$11,00020%
Sunday Breakfast Mission$9,00080%
Historical Society of Delaware$9,00080%
Delaware Wild Lands Inc$8,00080%
The Ministry of Caring Inc$8,00080%
Children's Beach House Inc$8,00080%
Meals on Wheels Delaware Inc$8,00080%
Delaware Theatre Company$8,00080%
Child Inc$8,00080%
Special Olympics Delaware Inc$8,00080%
Food Bank of Delaware Inc$7,50080%
The Pilot School Incorporated$7,00070%
Delaware Hospice Inc$6,00060%
Delaware Symphony Association Inc$6,00060%
The Land Conservancy for Southern Chester County$6,00040%
Divers Alert Network$6,00020%
Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association$5,0001n/a
Delaware Institute for the Arts in Educa$5,00050%
Masonic Service Association$5,00040%
Adventure Cycling Association$4,50040%
Stroud Water Research Center$4,00040%
Seamen's Center of Wilmington Incorporated$4,00040%
The United States Sportsmen's Alliance Foundation Inc$4,00040%
The Surfrider Foundation$4,00040%
Delaware Art Museum Inc$4,00040%
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc$4,00040%
The Unquowa School Association Inc$3,00030%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Delaware Inc$3,00030%
The Florida Coalition for Preservation Inc$3,00031%
Natural Lands Trust Inc$3,00030%
First State Squash Inc$3,00030%
The Salvation Army$3,0003n/a
New York Yacht Club Foundation$3,00030%
St Michael's School and Nursery Inc$3,00030%
Boys & Girls Club of Pbc$2,50010%
Ducks Unlimited Inc$2,0002n/a
New Castle Historical Society$2,00020%
Embracing Truth Ministries$2,0002n/a
Humane Animal Partners$2,00020%
National Geographic Society$1,00010%
The Pequot Yacht Club Foundation Inc$1,00011%
Blood Bank of Delmarva Inc$1,0001n/a
Lundale Farm Inc$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 101 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Nor' Easter Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 67 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc: $839,600 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetTrinity-Pawling School Corporation: $101,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Discovery Museum Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetDelaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc: $97,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCardigan Mountain School: $86,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBrandywine Red Clay Alliance: $57,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetChristiana Care Health System Inc: $56,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetReach Riverside Development Corp: $55,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHistoric Red Clay Valley Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetDelaware Nature Society Inc: $45,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetGulf Stream School Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetServiam Girls Academy Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetProject New Start Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetThe 1103 Market Street Foundation: $38,500 over 8y, 8.4% of budgetFriends of Auburn Heights Inc: $34,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetUniversity of Delaware: $33,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCoast Guard Foundation Inc: $33,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $28,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLewes Junction Railroad and Bridge Association Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetMystic Seaport Museum Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPartners for World Health: $20,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDelaware Botanic Gardens Inc: $19,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetDelaware Center for Horticulture Inc: $17,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetDelaware Futures Inc: $16,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCanine Partners for Life: $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBridgeport Hospital Foundation Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Mountain Bicycling Association: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSunday Breakfast Mission: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHistorical Society of Delaware: $9,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDelaware Wild Lands Inc: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Ministry of Caring Inc: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Beach House Inc: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels Delaware Inc: $8,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetDelaware Theatre Company: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetChild Inc: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Delaware Inc: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank of Delaware Inc: $7,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pilot School Incorporated: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDelaware Hospice Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDelaware Symphony Association Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Land Conservancy for Southern Chester County: $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDivers Alert Network: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDelaware Institute for the Arts in Educa: $5,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMasonic Service Association: $5,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 67.

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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.

Delaware Community Foundation IncDE68.2× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Wakefield Family Fund Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Marmot Foundation · United Way of Delaware · Ederic Foundation Inc · Fair Play 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.

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About Nor' Easter Foundation Inc

How much does Nor' Easter Foundation Inc give?
Nor' Easter Foundation Inc reported 82 grants totaling $773,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 68 and 91 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Nor' Easter Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (55%), Education (16%), Religion (7%).
Who are Nor' Easter Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc ($840k), Trinity-Pawling School Corporation ($101k), The Discovery Museum Inc ($100k).
Does Nor' Easter Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Nor' Easter Foundation Inc 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 Nor' Easter Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaware Community Foundation Inc, Longwood Foundation Inc, Crestlea Foundation Inc.
Where is Nor' Easter Foundation Inc based?
Nor' Easter Foundation Inc is based in DE.

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 177 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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