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The Anthony & Catherine Fusco 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.

$347k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.8MHealth$116kReligion$103kHuman Services$80kArts & Culture$75kFood & Nutrition$31kYouth Development$20kHousing & Shelter$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $301,100, the rows itemized in this filing. The $346,900 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $45,800 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $179k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ursuline Academy$75,000
Padua Academy$36,300
Saint Mark's High School$33,000
Nativity Preparatory School of Wilmington$28,600
Chadds Ford Elementary School PTO$20,000
Morning Glory Center Ministries, Inc.$16,500
Saint Edmond's Academy$15,000
St. Anthony of Padua School$10,000
Delaware Art Museum$10,000
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital$10,000
Amanecer Counseling & Resource Center$5,000
First Tee of Delaware$5,000
Freedom Hills Therapeutic Assist$5,000
Sussex Montessori Public Charter School$5,000
Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.

area typical 10%SOCIETY FOR DISABILITIES: $500 → 15%BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDR: $3k → 10%THE MARY CAMPBELL CENTER INC: $1k → 10%Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Childr: $500 → 10%YMCA of Delaware: $25k → 10%YMCA OF DELAWARE: $6k → 10%YMCA of Delaware: $5k → 10%YMCA OF DELAWARE: $5k → 10%ST ANTHONYS COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 10%Family Counseling Center of St Paul's: $2k → 10%Family Counseling Center of St Paul's: $2k → 10%Family Counseling Center of St Paul's: $2k → 10%ST ANTHONYS COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 10%Family Counseling Center of St Paul's: $1k → 10%Family Counseling Center of St Paul's: $1k → 10%Family Counseling Center of St Paul's: $1k → 10%ST ANTHONYS COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 10%DELAWARE HOSPICE INC: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
DE
TN
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 52 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
26

Total granted

$2.2M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+37%

Still filing today

73%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DM
    DELAWARE MILITARY ACADEMY
    6× · 2018–2023 · $221k · revenue +32%
  • MG
    MORNING GLORY CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $76k · revenue +313% · 100% of their budget
  • DA
    DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • TH
    The House that Toni Built
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +36%
  • GI
    GLOBAL INVESTMENT FOUNDATION FOR TOMORROW INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +37%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Early College School At Delaware State University

To provide highly motivated students with a curriculum that is integrated with the relevant curriculum at delaware state university such that all students graduate with one to two years of college credits, preparing them for completion of…

Education
2
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
3
Delaware Prosperity Partnership Inc

To lead the state of delaware's economic development efforts.

Community Improvement
4
Delaware Foundation for Science and Mathematics Education

Dfsme's mission is to strengthen science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education to prepare all delaware students to be informed citizens and competitive in the global workforce.

Science & Tech
5
Delaware County Christian School Society

Our mission is to educate students who will serve god and impact the world through biblical thought and action.

Education
6
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
7
United Way of Delaware

The organization's mission is to maximize the community's resources to improve the quality of lives of all delawareans.

Philanthropy
8
Charter School of New Castle

A delaware charter school with a mission that acknowledges the learning differences of each individual child and nurtures the uniqueness of each family structure.

Education
9
Child Inc

To be the leading advocate for delaware's children. we provide creative prevention and treatment programs that meet the changing needs of families. we serve dependent, neglected, and abused children and their parents. we provide programs…

Human Services
10
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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11
Delaware State Education Association Inc

Advocate for the rights and interests of its members and outstanding public education for all students.

—
12
University of Delaware

The university of delaware is a major research university dedicated to cultivating learning, advancing knowledge, and fostering the exchange of ideas through teaching, research and public service.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is New Castle Community Partnership in C. 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

53 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. 53 of the 86 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
39/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

URSULINE ACADEMY INC: $718,640 · OtherURSULINE ACADEMY INCPadua Academy: $240,900 · OtherPadua AcademySALESIANUM SCHOOL INC: $218,200 · OtherSALESIANUM SCHOOL INCDIOCESE OF WILMINGTON SCHOOLS INC: $63,000 · Other+55 more: $325,265 · Other+55 moreDELAWARE MILITARY ACADEMY: $221,000 · EducationDELAWARE MILIT…Chadds Ford Elementary School Pto Inc: $25,500 · EducationChadds Ford El…AQUINAS ACADEMY INC: $15,000 · EducationURBANPROMISE WILMINGTON INC: $15,000 · EducationSUSSEX ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $11,500 · Education+3 more: $9,500 · EducationDELAWARE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $106,000 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE …DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE …+2 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMORNING GLORY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $75,500 · ReligionYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE: $41,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF ST PAUL'S: $9,000 · Human ServicesBEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesST ANTHONY'S COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $6,000 · Human Services+3 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $19,250 · HealthNational Alopecia Areata Foundation: $13,600 · HealthTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION: $12,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $8,050 · Health+2 more: $2,250 · HealthFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $31,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,566,005Education$297,500Arts & Culture$181,000Religion$75,500Human Services$67,000Health$55,650Food & Nutrition$31,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDELAWARE MILITARY ACADEMY: $221,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetDELAWARE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $106,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMORNING GLORY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $75,500 over 8y, 100% of budgetDELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC: $70,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE: $41,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $31,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetChadds Ford Elementary School Pto Inc: $25,500 over 3y, 44% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $19,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetURBANPROMISE WILMINGTON INC: $15,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNational Alopecia Areata Foundation: $13,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSUSSEX ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $11,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF ST PAUL'S: $9,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $8,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC: $7,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BERNARD AND RUTH SIEGEL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DELAWARE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PILOT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST ANTHONY'S COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUNSHINE FOUNDATION: $5,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL INVESTMENT FOUNDATION FOR TOMORROW INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCONNECTING GENERATIONS: $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE DREAMS INC: $3,500 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetDEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCUMBERLAND COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF DELAWARE INC: $3,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDELAWARE THEATRE COMPANY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOJOURNERS' PLACE: $3,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGREAT OAKS FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS DELAWARE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTIONS COMMUNITY SUPPORT PROGRAMS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE GREENWAYS INC: $2,300 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC: $2,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTENDER HEARTSINC: $2,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE MINISTRY OF CARING INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE DELAWARE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDELAWARE HOSPICE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARY CAMPBELL CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIMEN HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 DELAWARE MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds MORNING GLORY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE INC ↗
  • Who funds Chadds Ford Elementary School Pto Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds AQUINAS ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds URBANPROMISE WILMINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds National Alopecia Areata Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SUSSEX ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF ST PAUL'S ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BERNARD AND RUTH SIEGEL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DELAWARE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PILOT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds ST ANTHONY'S COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SUNSHINE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION 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.

Delaware Community Fo…Laffey-McHugh Foundat…Longwood Foundation I…Welfare Foundation IncUnited Way of DelawareCrestlea Foundation I…Marmot FoundationChichester Dupont Fou…Wsfs Cares FoundationMilton and Hattie Kut…Nor' Easter Foundatio…Incyte Charitable Giv…
Delaware Community Foundation IncDE66.8× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Longwood Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · United Way of Delaware · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Marmot Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Milton and Hattie Kutz Foundation · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Incyte Charitable Giving Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Anthony & Catherine Fusco Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Anthony & Catherine Fusco Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Delaware Charter Schools Network: 100% of income from government
  • Connecting Generations: 89% of income from government
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Delaware Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Family Counseling Center of St Paul's: 41% of income from government
  • Limen House Inc: 38% of income from government
  • West End Neighborhood House Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Delaware College of Art and Design: 32% of income from government
  • Sojourners' Place: 30% of income from government
  • The Ministry of Caring Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Food Bank of Delaware Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Delaware Greenways Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Historical Society of Delaware: 18% of income from government
  • Delaware Community Foundation Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Delaware Theatre Company: 8% of income from government
  • Delaware Art Museum Inc: 8% of income from government
  • The Mary Campbell Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Little Sisters of the Poor Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Delaware Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Delaware Military Academy: 3% of income from government
  • Serviam Girls Academy Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Delaware Hospice Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Pilot School Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Young Men's Christian Association of Delaware: 1% of income from government
  • The Nemours Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
7report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 86 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $358k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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