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Spur Impact Association

To be the premier hub developing, engaging, and inspiring tomorrow's leaders by fostering connections with people, nonprofits, and businesses to promote growth personally, professionally, and philanthropically.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
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 FY20202024.

Philanthropy$5.5MEducation$131kHuman Services$131kHousing & Shelter$124kAnimals$87kHealth$16kRecreation & Sports$14kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $1,720,483 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,809,782 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $89,299 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $74k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$27,367
Median grant
1
States reached
$267k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE$1,548,056
SHEPHERD'S OFFICE INC$74,437
HUMANE ANIMAL PARTNERS$28,031
DELAWARE KIDS FUND$27,367
DELAWARE WILD LANDS$14,287
GOLDEY-BEACOM COLLEGE$11,809
ROOFS FROM THE HEART$9,027
URBAN BIKE PROJECT OF WILMINGTON$7,469
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 (FY21–24, $237k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SHEPHERD'S OFFICE INC: $74k → 10%CODE PURPLE KENT COUNTY: $115k → 11%SHEPHERD'S OFFICE INC: $21k → 10%SHEPHERD'S OFFICE INC: $11k → 10%ROOFS FROM THE HEART: $9k → 10%DELAWARE HOSPICE: $7k → 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.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.8M · 7 repeat orgs$235k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

$5.8M
$226k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
-11%

Still filing today

100%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +7%
  • SO
    Shepherds Office Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $106k · revenue +142% · 39% of their budget
  • SK
    SAM'S KIDS FUND F/K/A THE DELAWARE KIDS FUND
    4× · 2021–2024 · $82k · revenue +129%

Funded once

  • CP
    Code Purple Kent County Delaware Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $115k · revenue -60% · 40% of their budget
  • DS
    DELAWARE SPCA
    one grant, 2022 · $35k
  • CS
    CHRISTMAS SHOP FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue -97%

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
Delaware Humane Association

Founded in 1957, delaware humane association (dha) is delaware's premier nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends…

Animals
2
Housing Alliance Delaware

Our mission is to advance housing opportunities, end homelessness, and promote thriving communities for all.

Housing & Shelter
3
Delaware Center for Justice

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.

Crime & Legal
4
Aids Delaware Inc

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.

Health
5
Delaware Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Delaware spca is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty and the encouragement of humane treatment of all animals.

Animals
6
Delaware Advancement Corporation

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.

7
Delaware Hiv Services Inc

The delaware hiv consortium is dedicated to providing leadership to eliminate hiv in delaware by supporting and providing optimal hiv care and prevention services.

8
Delaware County Foundation

Strengthening the community by connecting people through charitable giving

Philanthropy
9
Delaware Center for Health Innovation Inc

The organization develops, facilitates, and oversees the implementation of collaborative efforts aimed at transforming the delivery of health care services in delaware.

10
Meals on Wheels Delaware Inc

Meals On Wheels Delaware?s MOWD mission is to raise funds, other resources, and awareness to support meal delivery programs to homebound seniors in Delaware.

Food & Nutrition
11
The Humane Society of Delaware County

Adoptions of unwanted animals, sterilization of pets to prevent overpopulation.

Animals
12
Children's Advocacy Center of Delaware

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.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Delaware and the most unlike its peers is Code Purple Kent County Delaware Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 19 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE — $5,409,704 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF DELAWARE+1 more — $62,362 · PhilanthropyCode Purple Kent County Delaware Inc — $115,426 · Human ServicesShepherds Office Inc — $106,212 · Human ServicesROOFS FROM THE HEART — $9,027 · Human Services+1 more — $6,662 · Human ServicesSAM'S KIDS FUND F/K/A THE DELAWARE KIDS FUND — $81,534 · EducationGOLDEY-BEACOM COLLEGE — $21,929 · EducationURBAN BIKE PROJECT OF WILMINGTON INC — $21,781 · EducationDELAWARE SPCA — $34,617 · OtherCHRISTMAS SHOP FOUNDATION INC — $18,410 · OtherTHE MINISTRY OF CARING INC — $6,163 · OtherSERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INC — $5,571 · OtherDELAWARE INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS IN EDUCA — $5,120 · OtherHUMANE ANIMAL PARTNERS — $46,496 · AnimalsFORGOTTEN CATS INC — $6,010 · AnimalsSTRIVE HOW YOU LEAD MATTERS INC — $13,502 · Recreation & SportsFIRST STATE ABORTION FUND — $9,534 · HealthDELAWARE COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACTION COUNCIL INC — $5,284 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$5,472,066Human Services$237,327Education$125,244Other$69,881Animals$52,506Recreation & Sports$13,502Health$9,534Community Improvement$5,284

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF DELAWARE — $5,409,704 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetCode Purple Kent County Delaware Inc — $115,426 over 1y, 40% of budgetShepherds Office Inc — $106,212 over 3y, 39% of budgetSAM'S KIDS FUND F/K/A THE DELAWARE KIDS FUND — $81,534 over 4y, 19% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF WILMINGTON SERVICES FOUNDATION — $62,362 over 2y, 19% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL PARTNERS — $46,496 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGOLDEY-BEACOM COLLEGE — $21,929 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN BIKE PROJECT OF WILMINGTON INC — $21,781 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetCHRISTMAS SHOP FOUNDATION INC — $18,410 over 1y, 12% of budgetSTRIVE HOW YOU LEAD MATTERS INC — $13,502 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetROOFS FROM THE HEART — $9,027 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetDELAWARE HOSPICE INC — $6,662 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MINISTRY OF CARING INC — $6,163 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORGOTTEN CATS INC — $6,010 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INC — $5,571 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDELAWARE COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACTION COUNCIL INC — $5,284 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDELAWARE INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS IN EDUCA — $5,120 over 1y, 1.5% 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 Foundation IncDE31.8× affinity13 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 · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · 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 Spur Impact Association 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
202122232425
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 14%
  • Code Purple Kent County Delaware Inc100% of income from government
  • United Way of Delaware58% of income from government
  • The Ministry of Caring Inc30% of income from government
  • Humane Animal Partners14% of income from government
  • Delaware Community Reinvestment Action Council Inc14% of income from government
  • Forgotten Cats Inc4% of income from government
  • Delaware Institute for the Arts in Educa2% of income from government
  • Serviam Girls Academy Inc2% of income from government
  • Delaware Hospice Inc1% of income from government
  • Goldey-Beacom College1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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