· Private foundation
The Jms Foundation for Children
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEEBE FOUNDATION | $1,916 |
| ROSA HEALTH CENTER | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $750 |
| LONGWOOD GARDENS | $400 |
| LEWES HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $320 |
| MILTON FOOD PANTRY | $270 |
| CATHOLIC LEGAL IMMIGRATION NETWORK | $258 |
| RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY | $250 |
| NATIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION | $200 |
| WHYY | $200 |
| CAPE HENLOPEN BOYS' LACROSSE | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
| CENTER FOR ACTION & CONTEMPLATION | $150 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125 |
| REHOBOTH ART LEAGUE | $125 |
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 (FY25–25, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 14 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
WHYY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1k · revenue +36%
CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION5× · 2021–2025 · $1k · revenue +12%- LFLEWES FIRE DEPARTMENT INC5× · 2021–2025 · $425 · revenue +50%
Funded once
- FBFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INCone grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue -15%
- FUFAITH UMCone grant, 2020 · $500
- SDSOUTHERN DE FOR RACIAL JUSTICEone grant, 2024 · $370
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.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
The friends of the delaware canal is an independent, non-profit organization working to restore, preserve, and improve the delaware canal and its surroundings.
New jersey lcv is the statewide political voice for the environment. working with our allies in the community, we advocate for strong environmental policies, support our environmental justice partners in pursuing more equitable policies,…
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.
Partnership for the delaware estuary, inc. (pde), host of the delaware estuary program, leads collaborative, science-based efforts to improve the delaware river and bay, which covers portions of delaware, new jersey, and pennsylvania.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Delaware River Greenway Partnership is a non-proift, non-partisan organization that educates the public in support of the natural and cultural resources along the Delaware River and its tributaries
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
To aggressively promote investment in muncie-delaware county which will result in the creation and retention of quality job opportunities and enhance the quality of life in our community.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Nature Society 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 43 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 33% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 69 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 WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROSA HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE BREAST CANCER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
- Who funds LEWES FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds LONGWOOD GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE NEW BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEWES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LEWES PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC LEGAL IMMIGRATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CAPE HENLOPEN STATE PARK ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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 · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Happy Difference Foundation · Incyte Charitable Giving Foundation · United Way of Delaware · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Jms Foundation for Children 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.
- Lewes Fire Department Inc — 41% of income from government
- Delaware State Troopers Association — 41% of income from government
- The Rosa Health Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Camp Rehoboth Inc — 33% of income from government
- Lewes Public Library Inc — 27% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Delaware Nature Society Inc — 13% of income from government
- Rehoboth Art League Inc — 8% of income from government
- Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition Inc — 7% of income from government
- Milton Arts Guild Inc — 6% of income from government
- Delaware Pacem in Terris Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Lewes Historical Society Inc — 4% of income from government
- Special Olympics Delaware Inc — 3% of income from government
- West Side New Beginnings Inc — 2% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Delaware Hospice Inc — 1% 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.