· Private foundation
The Mid-Del Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k38 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DELAWARE BREAST CANCER COALITION | $15,000 |
| DELAWARE HOSPICE INC | $8,500 |
| DVFA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MILFORD SENIOR CENTER | $5,000 |
| DELAWARE 4-H FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DELAWARE RESTAURANT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DELAWARE AG MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF DE | $5,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR THERAPEUTIC AND ED RIDING | $4,000 |
| MILFORD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL-SANTA WORKSHOP | $3,000 |
| FREDERICA SENIOR CENTER | $3,000 |
| ZOE MINISTRIES INC GREENWOOD | $3,000 |
| SURVIVOR VENTURES | $2,800 |
| READ ALOUD DELAWARE | $2,500 |
| DELAMARVA COMMUNITY SERVICES | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- DBDELAWARE BREAST CANCER COALITION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $104k · revenue +70%
- DHDELAWARE HOSPICE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +1%
- TDTHE DELAWARE 4-H FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- MHMILFORD HIGH SCHOOL - SANTA'S WORKSHOPone grant, 2023 · $3k
- FPFRANKFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY LTDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +59%
- SDSEAFORD DISTRICT LIBRARY INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -11%
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 organization develops, facilitates, and oversees the implementation of collaborative efforts aimed at transforming the delivery of health care services in delaware.
Commitment to delivering exceptional client service to nurture independence, improve quality of life for aging and disabled, help this population with the highest level of professional home health care as an alternative to higher cost…
To provide social, educational, recreational, physical and emotional support and entertainment to seniors.
Delaware family voices's mission is to improve access to quality care & support for children, youth & young adults with special health care needs & disabilities, promoting family centered care
The arc of delaware promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and actively supports full inclusion and participation in the community through advocacy and services to individuals and…
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…
Meals On Wheels Delaware?s MOWD mission is to raise funds, other resources, and awareness to support meal delivery programs to homebound seniors in Delaware.
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.
To guide, serve and support delaware physicians, promoting the practice and profession of medicine to enhance the health of our communities.
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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.
Cancer support community delaware is a statewide nonprofit organization whose mission is to ensure that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community. our members are adults,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delmarva Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Delaware Ffa Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 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) — 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.
38 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. 38 of the 75 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 BREAST CANCER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DELAWARE 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DVFA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THERAPEUTIC & EDUCATIONA TIONAL RIDING ↗
- Who funds MILFORD SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds READ-ALOUD DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE BRAVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER HARRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIE ↗
- Who funds REHOBOTH ART LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAR SPACE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HARVEST YEARS SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HARRINGTON SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE RESTAURANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHEER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BEACH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREDERICA SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ART WORKS FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds CARING HEARTS HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds COLLABORATIVE EFFORT TO REINFORCE TRANSITION SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds Delaware FFA Foundation ↗
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 · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · United Way of Delaware · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Del-One Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Incyte Charitable Giving Foundation · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Palmer Home Inc
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 Mid-Del Charitable 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.
- Pathways to Success Inc — 95% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Delaware Inc — 73% of income from government
- Art Works for All Inc — 56% of income from government
- Nanticoke Senior Center Inc — 54% of income from government
- Cheer Inc — 51% of income from government
- The Modern Maturity Center Inc — 46% of income from government
- Read-Aloud Delaware Inc — 45% of income from government
- Harvest Years Senior Center Inc — 44% of income from government
- Frederica Senior Center Inc — 43% of income from government
- Milford Senior Center Inc — 42% of income from government
- Harrington Senior Center Inc — 42% of income from government
- Lutheran Senior Services of Dover Inc — 41% of income from government
- Latin American Community Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- The Ministry of Caring Inc — 30% of income from government
- Seaford District Library Inc — 28% of income from government
- Greater Harrington Historical Socie — 16% of income from government
- Delaware Ffa Foundation — 12% of income from government
- Frankford Public Library Ltd — 10% of income from government
- Rehoboth Art League Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Home of the Brave Foundation — 8% of income from government
- Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition Inc — 7% of income from government
- Clear Space Theatre Company — 7% of income from government
- Children's Beach House Inc — 5% of income from government
- Delaware Farm Bureau Foundation — 4% of income from government
- The Delaware 4-H Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Delaware Hospice Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mental Health Association in Delaware Inc — 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.
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