· Private foundation
Red Wagon Calagione Family Foundation F/K/A Beer & Benevolence 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPEN SPACE ALLIANCE | $100,000 |
| NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SUSSEX ROTARY CAN-DO PLAYGROUND INC | $25,000 |
| DELAWARE CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS | $25,000 |
| BETHEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MICHAEL JAMES JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR BREWING AND DISTILLING | $10,000 |
| CAPE HENLOPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE MUSIC SCHOOL OF DELAWARE | $10,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S BEACH HOUSE | $5,000 |
| BOOTHBAY REGION LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ | $5,000 |
| COASTAL MAINE BOTANICAL GARDENS | $5,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Red Wagon Calagione Family Foundation F/K/A Beer & Benevolence Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL4× · 2020–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +40%- TLTHE LEWES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +69%
- BRBoothbay Region Land Trust4× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- DRDE RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EATS FUNDone grant, 2020 · $100k
- SCSUSSEX COUNTY LAND FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $30k
- SCSPRINGBOARD COLLECTIVEone grant, 2021 · $30k
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.
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…
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
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.
Preserve duxbury beach to safeguard adjacent bays and mainland, protect wildlife and vegetation while welcoming the public to enjoy.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
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 Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Description of organization mission: at suffolk university we are driven by the power of education, inclusion, and engagement to change lives and positively impact communities. committed to excellence, we provide students with experiential…
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…
The middlesex land trust's mission is to preserve open space in northern middlesex county by identifying, protecting, and maintaining significant natural features such as wetlands, scenic areas, critical wildlife habitats, prime farmland…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 46 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 NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE LEWES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Boothbay Region Land Trust ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL JAMES JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR BREWING AND DISTILLING ↗
- Who funds SUSSEX ROTARY CAN-DO PLAYGROUND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSIC SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds FREEMAN ARTS PAVILION INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE HENLOPEN EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MUHLENBERG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SUSSEX ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILTON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LEWES IN BLOOM INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds DOVER ART LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LEWES PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL KARES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BEACH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHERN DELAWARE ALLIANCE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE ↗
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 · Schell Family Foundation · Carolyn S & Donald F Obrecht Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · The Ma-Ran Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · IJ and Mary LaRosa Memorial Foundation Inc · Draper Holdings Charitable Foundation I · Delaware Humanities Council
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 Red Wagon Calagione Family Foundation F/K/A Beer & Benevolence 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.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Delaware Inc — 73% of income from government
- Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company Inc — 64% of income from government
- Center for the Inland Bays Inc — 59% of income from government
- Dover Art League — 30% of income from government
- Lewes Public Library Inc — 27% of income from government
- Delaware Community Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Music School of Delaware Inc — 9% of income from government
- Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Children's Beach House Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Lewes Historical Society Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cape Henlopen Educational Fund — 3% of income from government
- Beebe Medical Foundation — 2% 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.