· Public charity
Sustainable Energy Utility Inc
To serve the sustainable energy needs of all delaware energy consumers using all fuels.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $161k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+3 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DELAWARE STATE HOUSING AUTHORITY | $1,500,000 |
| NEW ECOLOGY INC | $685,721 |
| OFFICE OF MANAGMENT & BUDGET | $450,000 |
| LEWES PUBLIC LIBRARY | $240,945 |
| RED CLAY CONSOILDATED SCHOOL DISTRI | $235,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE REAL ESTATE SOLUTIONS | $232,732 |
| CITY OF MILFORD | $213,440 |
| ATLANTIC EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS | $209,231 |
| ENSAVE INC | $175,974 |
| Individual grant recipient | $171,758 |
| KENT COUNTY LEVY COURT | $160,815 |
| TOWN OF BETHANY BEACH | $160,416 |
| ENERGY EFFICENT EARTH INC | $145,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125,519 |
| GREEN BUILDING UNITED | $124,503 |
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 (FY17–24, $491k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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
- HIHELP INITIATIVE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +361% · 74% of their budget
- NENEW ECOLOGY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +84%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY3× · 2021–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +84%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $4.1M
- MAMID ATLANTIC CLEAN HYDROGEN HUB INCone grant, 2024 · $1.0M
- COCITY OF DOVERone grant, 2024 · $500k
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.
The Laurel District Library provides access to information and library materials for residents and visitors to Sussex County in the State of Delaware.
The Selbyville Public Library provides free access to information and library materials to residents and visitors to Sussex County in the State of Delaware.
Our mission is to advance housing opportunities, end homelessness, and promote thriving communities for all.
The organization develops, facilitates, and oversees the implementation of collaborative efforts aimed at transforming the delivery of health care services in delaware.
Provide health care services to the medically underserved, uninsured, and under insured residents of sussex county of delaware.
Provision of legal services.
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.
Provider of primary health care to residents of wilmington and new castle county, delaware.
The Bridgeville Public Library provides access to information and library materials for residents and visitors to in the State of Delaware.
To collaborate with select private, non-profit, and governmental entities to increase the city of wilmingtons affordable housing stock by promoting renovation/rehabilitation and limited new home construction in stategically selected areas…
Fire company providing 911 emergency services including fire and ambulance services.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Delaware and the most unlike its peers is Magnolia Volunteer Fire Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 33% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 129 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 HELP INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ECOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MID ATLANTIC CLEAN HYDROGEN HUB INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds ENERGY COORDINATING AGENCY OF PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN BUILDING UNITED ↗
- Who funds LEWES PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds Georgetown Public Library Inc ↗
- Who funds ROOFS FROM THE HEART ↗
- Who funds MILFORD HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds THE LORELTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEWES FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY LTD ↗
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 · Longwood Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · United Way of Delaware · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Marmot Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Christiana Care Health Services Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation
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 Sustainable Energy Utility Inc 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.
- Help Initiative Inc — 79% of income from government
- Houston Volunteer Fire Company — 63% of income from government
- Selbyville Volunteer Fire Company Inc — 59% of income from government
- United Way of Delaware — 58% of income from government
- St Michael's School and Nursery Inc — 48% of income from government
- Lewes Fire Department Inc — 41% of income from government
- Neighborgood Partners Inc — 35% of income from government
- Latin American Community Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- The Ministry of Caring Inc — 30% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Lewes Public Library Inc — 27% of income from government
- What Is Your Voice Inc — 27% of income from government
- Todmorden Foundation — 26% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of New Castle County — 21% of income from government
- Georgetown Public Library Inc — 11% of income from government
- Frankford Public Library Ltd — 10% of income from government
- Kingswood Community Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Beebe Medical Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Bayhealth Foundation Corporation — 4% of income from government
- Odyssey Charter School — 2% of income from government
- New Ecology Inc — 1% of income from government
- Tidalhealth Nanticoke Inc — 1% of income from government
- Goldey-Beacom College — 1% of income from government
- Bayhealth Medical Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Lorelton Foundation — 0% 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.
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