· Private foundation
Pollyanna Foundation
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 $10k11 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $122k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES DELAWARE | $62,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER - DELAWARE | $60,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF LANE COUNTY | $22,500 |
| WEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $20,000 |
| HILLEL OF UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $15,000 |
| SYNAGOGUE OF THE SUMMIT | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| DELAWARE BREAST CANCER COALITION | $5,000 |
| THE LAWFARE PROJECT | $5,000 |
| JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| READING ASSIST | $5,000 |
| KUTZ HOME AUXILIARY | $3,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE | $2,500 |
| ACLU OF DELAWARE | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $274k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +100% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF DELAWARE INC6× · 2019–2025 · $255k · revenue +71%
- WEWEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC5× · 2019–2025 · $65k · revenue +58%
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF LANE COUNTY5× · 2018–2025 · $32k · revenue +276%
Funded once
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION ISRAEL EMERGENCY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $195k
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES DORY ZATUCHNIone grant, 2018 · $26k
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IVY HARLEYone grant, 2018 · $20k
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 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.
The arc of delaware promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and actively supports full inclusion and participation in the community through advocacy and services to individuals and…
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.
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.
Jewish family service of greater new haven (jfsgnh) supports and strengthens individual, family, and community life by providing a wide range of social services. we welcome people of all ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations,…
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.
The arc of delaware county exists so people with disabilities will live personally fulfilling lives. we have developed values and training in proactive positive behavioral management for out staff and others that serve people with…
Delaware humanities council strengthens our communities by connecting delawareans through the diversity of human experiences.
To make a substantial contribution to delaware's journalism community and to the citizens of delaware by delivering original, in-depth, delaware-specific news and commentary from all three counties.
Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…
Leadership delaware, inc. (ldi) recruits outstanding delawareans and prepares them with the knowledge, vision, integrity and networks to significantly impact and transform their communities, and to excel at community, non-profit,…
Jewish family service is a human service organization which reflects the jewish tradition of caring and compassion for all people in need. through professional counseling, advocacy and educational programming, our services seek to enhance…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Delaware Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jewish Federation of Lane County. 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 54 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 63 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.
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds READING ASSIST INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE BREAST CANCER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY FOODS FOR HEALTHY KIDS INC ↗
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 · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Longwood Foundation Inc · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · United Way of Delaware · Incyte Charitable Giving Foundation · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · The Diane and Harry Levin 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 Pollyanna 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.
- Reading Assist Institute — 99% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Delaware Inc — 73% of income from government
- Ywca Delaware Inc — 50% of income from government
- West End Neighborhood House Inc — 36% of income from government
- Literacy Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Healthy Foods for Healthy Kids Inc — 14% of income from government
- Autism Delaware Inc — 12% of income from government
- Kingswood Community Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% of income from government
- Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition Inc — 7% of income from government
- Jewish Federation of Delaware Inc — 6% 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.