· Private foundation
The Graham 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| URSULINE ACADEMY | $30,178 |
| CHRIST CHURCH | $16,400 |
| THOUSAND ISLAND LAND TRUST | $3,758 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON | $3,350 |
| HAGLEY MUSEUM | $2,720 |
| PILOT SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| THOUSAND ISLAND ARTS CENTER | $2,000 |
| WINTERTHUR MUSEUM | $1,310 |
| HOLLY BALL FOUNDATION | $1,265 |
| MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY | $1,250 |
| UNITED WAY (DO MORE 24) | $1,150 |
| ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM | $1,070 |
| URBAN PROMISE | $1,062 |
| DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $1,030 |
| LIMEN HOUSE | $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 (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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.
37 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- SSSANFORD SCHOOL7× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +52%
- MUMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +48%
- TATHE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +211%
Funded once
- SMSAVE MICKEY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $1k
- FFFUND FOR WOMENone grant, 2017 · $1k
- WAWILMINGTON AQUATIC CLUBone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
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…
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…
Wilmington university is committed to excellence in teaching, relevancy of the curriculum, and individual attention to students. as an institution with admissions policies that provide access for all, it offers opportunity for higher…
The organization's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history and technology of delaware and the delmarva peninsula's farm life/culture and to offer public education programs and services related to aspects of the…
To guide, serve and support delaware physicians, promoting the practice and profession of medicine to enhance the health of our communities.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
The delaware academy of medicine, inc. is a private, non profit organization founded in 1930. our mission is to enhance the well being of our community through medical education and the promotion of public health. this mission is…
Delaware nature society connects people with the natural world to improve our environment through education, advocacy, and conservation.
The mission of the riverfront development corporation of delaware is to create economic vitality along the brandywine and christina rivers, enhance the environment, encourage historic preservation, and promote community access. through…
Drwc's mission is to maintain and promote the use and development of the city of philadelphia's waterfront. this task is of vital importance to the city and one which the city would otherwise be rquired to perform absent the drwc.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Longwood Gardens Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 62 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 64 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 SANFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE PILOT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds LIMEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLY BALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LONGWOOD GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds Sunday Breakfast Mission ↗
- Who funds THE 1103 MARKET STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBANPROMISE WILMINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds PEARL S BUCK INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds TRIAD MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE ↗
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 · United Way of Delaware · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Marmot Foundation · Wakefield Family Fund Inc · The Anthony & Catherine Fusco Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · The Huisking Foundation Inc · Ellason Downs Perpetual Charitable Trust
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 The Graham 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
- The Ministry of Caring Inc — 30% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Kalmar Nyckel Foundation — 14% of income from government
- Delaware Community Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Music School of Delaware Inc — 9% of income from government
- Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% of income from government
- Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Pilot School Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Sanford School — 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.