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Nor' Easter Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
82
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$343k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k65 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $239k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $82k
  • $250k+1 grant · $343k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAGLEY MUSEUM$343,000
HISTORIC RED CLAY (WILMINGTON WESTERN RAILROAD)$82,000
CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL$37,000
ST MICHAEL'S SCHOOL$25,000
LONGWOOD GARDENS$25,000
TRINITY PAWLING SCHOOL$20,000
LEWES JUNCTION RAILROAD & BRIDGE ASSOCIATION$20,000
CHRIST CHURCH CHRISTIANA HUNDRED$18,000
INDEPENDENCE SCHOOL INC (THE)$12,000
GULF STREAM SCHOOL$12,000
NEMOURS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$10,000
MAYO CLINIC$10,000
CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM$10,000
OYEBOG TENNIS ACADEMY (OTA)$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DELAWARE$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $10k → 6%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $1k → 6%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $1k → 6%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $1k → 6%CHILD INC: $1k → 10%CHILD INC: $1k → 10%CHILD INC: $1k → 10%CHILD INC: $1k → 10%DELAWARE HOSPICE: $1k → 10%DELAWARE HOSPICE: $1k → 10%DELAWARE HOSPICE: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 135 repeat orgs$430k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

135 repeat relationships: 78 still active in FY2025, 57 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

135
36

Total granted

$5.2M
$407k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+12%

Still filing today

45%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TS
    TRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL CORPORATION
    4× · 2018–2021 · $101k · revenue +1%
  • CM
    CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL
    4× · 2018–2021 · $86k · revenue +83%
  • BR
    BRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE
    4× · 2018–2021 · $58k · revenue +217%

Funded once

  • HM
    HAGLEY MUSEUM (1817 SOCIETY COMMITMENT)
    one grant, 2021 · $175k
  • TD
    THE DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +12%
  • WA
    WILMINGTON AND WESTERN RAILROAD
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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 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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2
Friends of the Delaware Canal Inc

The friends of the delaware canal is an independent, non-profit organization working to restore, preserve, and improve the delaware canal and its surroundings.

Environment
3
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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4
Delaware Bioscience Association Inc

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

Community Improvement
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
Delaware County Historical Society

Acquire and preserve property and information of historic value and/or interest concerning delaware county, pennsylvania. the society also operates a research library and museum.

Arts & Culture
7
Delaware Advancement Corporation

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.

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8
The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc

Port discovery children's museum's mission is to connect purposeful play and learning within its walls and beyond.

Arts & Culture
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
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
11
Delaware River Waterfront Corporation

Drwc's mission is to maintain and promote the use and development of the city of philadelphia's waterfront. this task is of vital importance to the city and one which the city would otherwise be rquired to perform absent the drwc.

Community Improvement
12
Wilmington University Inc

Wilmington university is committed to excellence in teaching, relevancy of the curriculum, and individual attention to students. as an institution with admissions policies that provide access for all, it offers opportunity for higher…

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 Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association. 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

72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 177 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/72
Grantees still filing
49/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAGLEY MUSEUM: $966,774 · OtherHAGLEY MUSEUMDISCOVERY MUSEUM & PLANETARIUM: $400,000 · OtherDISCOVERY MUSEUM & PLANETARIUMHISTORIC RED CLAY (WILMINGTON WESTERN RAILROAD): $182,000 · OtherHAGLEY MUSEUM (1817 SOCIETY COMMITMENT): $175,000 · OtherGULF STREAM SCHOOL: $161,997 · OtherOYEBOG TENNIS ACADEMY (OTA): $145,000 · Other+138 more: $1,865,034 · Other+138 moreEleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc: $839,600 · Arts & CultureEleutherian Mills-Hagle…THE DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DISCOVERY MUSEUM IN…HISTORIC RED CLAY VALLEY INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE 1103 MARKET STREET FOUNDATION: $38,500 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $122,000 · Arts & Culture+9 moreTRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL CORPORATION: $101,000 · EducationCARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $86,000 · EducationGULF STREAM SCHOOL INC: $40,000 · EducationUniversity of New England: $20,000 · EducationDELAWARE FUTURES INC: $16,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationBRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE: $57,500 · EnvironmentDELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY INC: $45,500 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentDELAWARE BOTANIC GARDENS INC: $19,000 · EnvironmentDELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC: $17,000 · Environment+4 more: $14,000 · EnvironmentMAYO CLINIC: $40,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $28,500 · HealthBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · HealthREACH RIVERSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORP: $55,000 · Housing & ShelterPROJECT NEW START INC: $40,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$3,895,805Arts & Culture$1,150,100Education$264,000Environment$173,000Health$80,500Housing & Shelter$55,000Crime & Legal$40,000

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 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 budgetMAYO CLINIC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetDELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 6y, 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 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.

  • Who funds Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds REACH RIVERSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC RED CLAY VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds GULF STREAM SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC ↗
  • Who funds SERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT NEW START INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds THE 1103 MARKET STREET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF AUBURN HEIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗

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 Fo…Longwood Foundation I…Crestlea Foundation I…Welfare Foundation IncChichester Dupont Fou…Laffey-McHugh Foundat…Wakefield Family Fund…Wsfs Cares FoundationMarmot FoundationUnited Way of DelawareEderic Foundation IncFair Play Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Nor' Easter Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nor' Easter Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Reach Riverside Development Corp: 100% of income from government
  • Delaware Futures Inc: 78% of income from government
  • Child Inc: 71% of income from government
  • St Michael's School and Nursery Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Christiana Care Health System Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Project New Start Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc: 33% of income from government
  • The Ministry of Caring Inc: 30% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Food Bank of Delaware Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Historical Society of Delaware: 18% of income from government
  • The Discovery Museum Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Humane Animal Partners: 14% of income from government
  • Delaware Nature Society Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Delaware Community Foundation Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Delaware Symphony Association Inc: 11% of income from government
  • New Castle Historical Society: 8% of income from government
  • Delaware Theatre Company: 8% of income from government
  • Delaware Art Museum Inc: 8% of income from government
  • First State Squash Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Children's Beach House Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation 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
  • Delaware Institute for the Arts in Educa: 2% of income from government
  • Delaware Botanic Gardens Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation 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
  • Delaware Hospice Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Pilot School Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Nor' Easter Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Nor' Easter Foundation Inc 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 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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