· Public charity
The Greater Lewes Foundation
To protect, improve, and enhance the quality of life within the greater lewes community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $161k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VARIOUS SMALL GRANTS | $1,302,798 |
| DELAWARE TECH COMM COLLEGE | $37,000 |
| MILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT | $23,000 |
| SUSSEX ROTARY CAN-DO PLAYGROUND INC | $22,000 |
| HARRY K FOUNDATION | $22,000 |
| LEWES FIRE DEPARTMENT | $13,000 |
| GEORGETOWN FIRE COMPANY INC | $12,000 |
| REHOBOTH BEACH FIRE DEPARTMENT | $11,000 |
| INDIAN RIVER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $11,000 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK | $10,000 |
| HEALTREE | $9,240 |
| DONATION-CITY OF LEWES | $8,500 |
| FIT 4 DUTY FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| SUSSEX POST 8 | $6,000 |
| AVENUE METHODIST CHURCH | $5,814 |
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 (FY24–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
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.
Fire prevention and safety
Fire extinguishment and emergency medical services and transportation
Community volunteer fire company providing fire protection and fire fighting services, ambulance and rescue service and other emergency services to the town of denton, md.
Represent delaware volunteer fire companies.
Provide fire and emergency medical service to gumboro, delaware and surrounding communities.
Volunteer Fire Department trained to operate rescue equipment and answer emergency calls in Delhi Community
Volunteer fire company operating and maintaining a fire house, equipment and ambulances to provide fire, rescue and ambulance services for the community.
Volunteer fire fighting and rescue services.
Volunteer fire department
The primary purpose is to preserve and protect lives and property in the marydel, delaware community, and other communities as requested, through the provision of firefighting, rescue, and emergency medical services ("ems").
The mission of the middlesex township volunteer fire company is to provide fire and rescue services to the local community.
Volunteer Fire Company
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harry K Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 DELAWARE TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SUSSEX ROTARY CAN-DO PLAYGROUND INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY K FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEWES FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds REHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SUSSEX POST NO 8 THE AMERICAN LEGION INC ↗
- Who funds Clothing Our Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
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 · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Greater Lewes 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.
- Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company Inc — 64% of income from government
- Lewes Fire Department Inc — 41% of income from government
- Milton Fire Department Inc — 41% of income from government
- Indian River Volunteer Fire Company Inc — 2% of income from government
- Harry K Foundation — 2% 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Greater Lewes Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Greater Lewes Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.