· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE | $10,000 |
| FATHER TRAINOR SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| LIMEN HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| ARTISTS SPACE | $5,000 |
| URSULINE ACADEMY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 SAHAR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rosemary and Ted Lassiter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rosemary and Ted Lassiter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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