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Rodel Charitable Foundation - De

The organization was formed as a supporting organization under irc section 509(a)(3) to support the delaware community foundation.

$2.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$5.1MSocial Science$800kEmployment$400kPublic Benefit$325kEnvironment$265kScience & Tech$205kHealth$100kRecreation & Sports$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $2,227,870 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,903,082 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $675,212 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $34k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$105,183
Median grant
7
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STATE OF DELAWARE$1,032,500
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND INC$179,375
EDUCATION NORTHWEST$179,358
TECH COUNCIL OF DELAWARE INC$150,000
WESTED$140,472
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$105,183
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$100,000
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$84,882
BRYAN ALLEN STEVENSON SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE INC$75,000
KUUMBA ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL$75,000
LEE COLLEGE DISTRICT$72,000
ASPIRA OF DELAWARE CHARTER OPERATIONS$34,100
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.

area typical 11%METROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUE: $35k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
CA
VA
DE
NC
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.7M · 19 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
15

Total granted

$5.7M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+16%

Still filing today

74%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEmploymentEnvironmentSocial ScienceRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $600k · revenue +193%
  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $217k · revenue +2%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $199k · revenue ×12

Funded once

  • ZC
    ZIP CODE WILMINGTON INC
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue -18%
  • DT
    DELAWARE TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +110%
  • Teach for America Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue -3%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School

Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.

Education
2
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
3
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
4
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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5
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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6
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
7
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
Thomas Jefferson School of Law

The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…

Education
10
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
11
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
12
3DE National Llc

3de re-engineers high school education to be more relevant, experiential, and authentically connected to the complexities of the real world in order to more fully prepare today's students for the demands of tomorrow's economy.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York University. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Independent K-12 SchoolsElementary Literacy TutoringFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Environmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 24 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number33%7%<5yr16%10%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr13%29%20–35yr9%13%35–55yr10%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value33%8%<5yr16%10%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr13%12%20–35yr9%13%35–55yr10%34%55yr+

The field is 33% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
11%
1,086/9,970

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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
20/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STATE OF DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTRO — $2,332,500 · OtherSTATE OF DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVI…INNOVATIVE SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $326,291 · OtherINNOVATIVE SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $216,870 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWAREETHICAL SYSTEMS INC — $200,000 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS — $188,626 · OtherLEE COLLEGE DISTRICT — $160,000 · OtherWESTED — $156,080 · Other+6 more — $235,000 · Other+6 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $300,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSIT…ZIP CODE WILMINGTON INC — $250,000 · EducationZIP CODE WILMINGTON INCDEMOCRACY A JOURNAL OF IDEAS INC — $200,000 · EducationDEMOCRACY A JOURNAL OF IDEAS INCDELAWARE TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $200,000 · EducationDELAWARE TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COL…THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND INC — $199,305 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA A…Kuumba Academy Charter School Inc — $175,000 · EducationKuumba Academy Charter School IncThe Bryan Allen Stevenson School of Excellence — $175,000 · EducationThe Bryan Allen Stevenson School o…Teach for America Inc — $150,000 · EducationTeach for America IncASPIRA OF DELAWARE CHARTER OPERATIONS IN — $134,100 · EducationASPIRA OF DELAWARE CHARTER OPERATI…RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $120,000 · EducationCulver Educational Foundation — $100,000 · EducationCONTINA IMPACT — $100,000 · EducationNew York University — $100,000 · Education+4 more — $57,500 · EducationTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $600,000 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN…CIVILIZATION WORKS — $125,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $100,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND — $20,000 · EnvironmentTECH COUNCIL OF DELAWARE INC — $150,000 · Employment4th Dimension Leaders Inc — $50,000 · EmploymentEDUCATION NORTHWEST — $199,286 · Public BenefitSTRIVE HOW YOU LEAD MATTERS INC — $105,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,815,367Education$2,260,905Social Science$600,000Environment$245,000Employment$200,000Public Benefit$199,286Recreation & Sports$105,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $600,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINNOVATIVE SCHOOLS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $326,291 over 2y, 20% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetZIP CODE WILMINGTON INC — $250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $216,870 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOCRACY A JOURNAL OF IDEAS INC — $200,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetDELAWARE TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetETHICAL SYSTEMS INC — $200,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND INC — $199,305 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEDUCATION NORTHWEST — $199,286 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKuumba Academy Charter School Inc — $175,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Bryan Allen Stevenson School of Excellence — $175,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTECH COUNCIL OF DELAWARE INC — $150,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPIRA OF DELAWARE CHARTER OPERATIONS IN — $134,100 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCIVILIZATION WORKS — $125,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $120,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTRIVE HOW YOU LEAD MATTERS INC — $105,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetCulver Educational Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONTINA IMPACT — $100,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetThe Third Way Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNew York University — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD WAY INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget4th Dimension Leaders Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUEINC — $35,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN SCIENCE CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetREADING ASSIST INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDELAWARE CHARTER SCHOOLS NETWORK — $7,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
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.

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.

Delaware Community Fo…Longwood Foundation I…The Rodel FoundationGates FoundationNew Venture FundLaffey-McHugh Foundat…The William & Flora H…Jewish Community Fede…Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…
Delaware Community Foundation IncDE27.3× affinity11 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 · The Rodel Foundation · Gates Foundation · New Venture Fund · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Rodel Charitable Foundation - De 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 44%
  • Delaware Charter Schools Network — 100% of income from government
  • Reading Assist Institute — 99% of income from government
  • 4th Dimension Leaders Inc — 69% of income from government
  • Education Northwest — 44% of income from government
  • University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
  • Zip Code Wilmington Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Kuumba Academy Charter School Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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