Delaware · Public charity
The Greater Lewes Foundation
To protect, improve, and enhance the quality of life within the greater lewes community.
- $5.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 88%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $5.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,984,008
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 88% of the organizations The Greater Lewes Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $199k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $5.3M | 50% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $1.5M | 88% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $895k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $419k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $428k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $290k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $218k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donation-City of Lewes | $5,043,252 | 5 | n/a |
| Sussex Rotary Can-Do Playground Inc | $42,000 | 2 | 17% |
| Milton Fire Department Inc | $37,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Delaware Technical & Community College Educational Foundation | $37,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Harry K Foundation | $32,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Lewes Fire Department Inc | $29,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Healtree | $27,900 | 2 | n/a |
| Georgetown Fire Company Inc | $26,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company Inc | $24,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Indian River Volunteer Fire Company Inc | $23,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Greater Lewes Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Greater Lewes Foundation
- How much does The Greater Lewes Foundation give?
- The Greater Lewes Foundation reported 24 itemized grants totaling $5,254,510, out of $5,915,572 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Greater Lewes Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (95%), Recreation & Sports (2%), Public Safety & Disaster (1%).
- Who are The Greater Lewes Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Donation-City of Lewes ($5.0M), Sussex Rotary Can-Do Playground Inc ($42k), Milton Fire Department Inc ($37k).
- Does The Greater Lewes Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Greater Lewes Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaware Community Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Greater Lewes Foundation based?
- The Greater Lewes Foundation is based in DE.
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