· Private foundation
Rosemary and Ted Lassiter 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ECKERD CONNECTS | $100,000 |
| SERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY | $75,000 |
| SALESIANUM SCHOOL FOR BOYS | $50,000 |
| THE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $25,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE | $20,000 |
| SUNDAY BREAKFAST MISSION | $15,000 |
| LIMEN HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FATHER TRAINOR SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| ARTISTS SPACE | $5,000 |
| URSULINE ACADEMY | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +29% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- EYECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +29%
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE3× · 2021–2023 · $160k · revenue +22%- FBFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $113k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- SASERVIAM ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $125k
- FIFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -37%
- GIGREENPEACE INCone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +5%
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…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
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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…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
In recognition of the fundamental principles of the universal declaration of human rights, international bridges to justice (ibj) is dedicated to protecting the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries. specifically,…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…
Meridian international center is a nonpartisan diplomacy institution founded in 1960 to advance american leadership. headquartered on a historic campus in washington dc, our mission is to empower leaders to advance the next era of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sahar Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 25 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 LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds SERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds Sunday Breakfast Mission ↗
- Who funds LIMEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds SAHAR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY 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: Laffey-McHugh Foundation · The Anthony & Catherine Fusco Foundation · United Way of Delaware · Welfare Foundation Inc · The Huisking Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Bacchieri Foundation · Marmot Foundation · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Rosemary and Ted Lassiter 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.
- Limen House Inc — 38% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc — 33% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc — 12% of income from government
- Little Sisters of the Poor Inc — 5% of income from government
- Serviam Girls Academy Inc — 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.