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· Public charity

The Greater Lewes Foundation

To protect, improve, and enhance the quality of life within the greater lewes community.

$5.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$4.8MRecreation & Sports$81kPublic Safety & Disaster$76kEducation$37kHealth$26kFood & Nutrition$22kHuman Services$11kReligion$6k
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 24 grants below total $5,254,510, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,915,572 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $661,062 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $206k
  • $250k+1 grant · $5.0M
$12,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DONATION-CITY OF LEWES$4,984,008
SUSSEX ROTARY CAN-DO PLAYGROUND INC$20,000
UNCULTURED SWINE LLC$20,000
HEALTREE$18,660
DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY$17,169
LEWES FIRE DEPARTMENT$16,000
TOYS FOR TOTS$15,325
GEORGETOWN FIRE COMPANY INC$14,000
MILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT$14,000
REHOBOTH BEACH FIRE DEPARTMENT$13,500
SUSSEX POST 8$12,065
INDIAN RIVER FIRE DEPARTMENT$12,000
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK$12,000
FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE$11,200
HARRY K FOUNDATION$10,000
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 (FY24–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CLOTHING OUR KIDS: $6k → 10%DSP TROOPER ASSOCIATION BENEVOLENT: $9k → 11%TOYS FOR TOTS: $15k → 10%PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS: $6k → 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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 13 repeat orgs$174k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
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Total granted

$10M
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+18%

Still filing today

69%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • HK
    HARRY K FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $32k · revenue +33%
  • GF
    GEORGETOWN FIRE COMPANY INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $26k · revenue +45%
  • SP
    SUSSEX POST NO 8 THE AMERICAN LEGION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $18k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • DT
    DELAWARE TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $37k · revenue +103%
  • AU
    AVENUE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • CO
    Clothing Our Kids Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +18%
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
Dagsboro Volunteer Fire Dept I

Fire prevention and safety

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Delaware Volunteer Firefighter's Association

Represent delaware volunteer fire companies.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Denton Volunteer Fire Company

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Delmar Fire Department Inc

Fire extinguishment and prevention.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Delhi Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer Fire Department trained to operate rescue equipment and answer emergency calls in Delhi Community

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Delaware County Board of Fire & Life Safety

The organization provides hundreds of comprehensive training programs to dozens of volunteer fire companies, ambulance services and police departments servicing delaware county, pa

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Delaware Valley Volunteer Fire Company

Volunteer fire fighting and rescue services.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Delaware Township Fire Company

To provide volunteer fire fighting services, emergency rescues and other fire or emergency related response services to the citizens of delaware township, juniata county, pa and surrounding communities.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Roxana Volunteer Fire Company

Fire extinguishment and emergency medical services and transportation

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10
Ladies Auxiliary of the Delaware City Fire Co Inc

Our mission is to serve the delaware city fire company through catering services provided by our volunteer members.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Bethany Beach Volunteer Fire Co in Station 70

Fire suppression, fire prevention and ambulance service.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Marydel Volunteer Fire Company of Marydel Delaware Inc

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").

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lewes Fire Department Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
6/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONATION-CITY OF LEWES: $5,043,252 · OtherDONATION-CITY OF LEWESVARIOUS SMALL GRANTS: $4,834,455 · OtherVARIOUS SMALL GRANTS+11 more: $175,979 · OtherDELAWARE TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $37,000 · EducationHARRY K FOUNDATION: $32,000 · EducationDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $17,169 · EducationLEWES PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $5,083 · EducationLEWES FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $29,000 · Public Safety & DisasterGEORGETOWN FIRE COMPANY INC: $26,000 · Public Safety & DisasterREHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $24,500 · Public Safety & DisasterSUSSEX ROTARY CAN-DO PLAYGROUND INC: $42,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP BARNES INC: $7,000 · Recreation & SportsWilmington Toys For Tots Inc Office Of The Mayor: $15,325 · Human ServicesDSTA BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS TO SUCCESS INC: $5,800 · Human ServicesClothing Our Kids Inc: $5,500 · Human ServicesPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $22,000 · HealthFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $11,200 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $5,200 · Environment
Other$10,053,686Education$91,252Public Safety & Disaster$79,500Recreation & Sports$49,000Human Services$35,625Health$22,000Food & Nutrition$11,200Environment$5,200

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 budgetSUSSEX ROTARY CAN-DO PLAYGROUND INC: $42,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetMILTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $37,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDELAWARE TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $37,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHARRY K FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetLEWES FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $29,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGETOWN FIRE COMPANY INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetREHOBOTH BEACH VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $24,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINDIAN RIVER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $23,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUSSEX POST NO 8 THE AMERICAN LEGION INC: $18,065 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $17,169 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $11,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE POLICE CHIEFS': $8,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCAMP BARNES INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDelaware Crime Stoppers Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetClothing Our Kids Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $5,200 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLEWES PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $5,083 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Delaware Community Foundation IncDE19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Greater Lewes Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Greater Lewes Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 41%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

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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.

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 29 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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