· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k65 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $239k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $82k
- $250k+1 grant · $343k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $10,000 |
| NEMOURS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| OYEBOG TENNIS ACADEMY (OTA) | $10,000 |
| REACH RIVERSIDE | $10,000 |
| DELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–21, $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. 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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- TSTRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL CORPORATION4× · 2018–2021 · $101k · revenue +1%
- CMCARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL4× · 2018–2021 · $86k · revenue +83%
- BRBRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE4× · 2018–2021 · $58k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- HMHAGLEY MUSEUM (1817 SOCIETY COMMITMENT)one grant, 2021 · $175k
- TDTHE DISCOVERY MUSEUM INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +12%
- WAWILMINGTON AND WESTERN RAILROADone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
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…
The friends of the delaware canal is an independent, non-profit organization working to restore, preserve, and improve the delaware canal and its surroundings.
To guide, serve and support delaware physicians, promoting the practice and profession of medicine to enhance the health of our communities.
To promote and strengthen the bioscience industry in the state of delaware.
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…
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.
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.
Port discovery children's museum's mission is to connect purposeful play and learning within its walls and beyond.
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.
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.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Community Foundation Inc and 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.
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 51 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 33% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 177 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.
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- 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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds GULF STREAM SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT NEW START INC ↗
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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 · 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
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 Nor' Easter Foundation Inc 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
- 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
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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