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The Struthers Family Foundation
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.
The 20 grants below total $541,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $793,900 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $252,400 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k14 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $460k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANFORD SCHOOL | $210,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| PENN STATE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS | $15,000 |
| CLASSIC MOTOR MUSEUM OF ST MICHAELS, INC | $10,000 |
| DROP IN THE BUCKET | $5,000 |
| AVALON FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS VIRGINIA | $5,000 |
| GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND, INC | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, INC | $2,500 |
| NAACP FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FAIRVOTE | $2,500 |
| DEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL, INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $2,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 20% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 19 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k 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
- SSSANFORD SCHOOL6× · 2017–2023 · $693k · revenue +52%
- FFFAITHFUL FRIENDS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $363k · revenue +113%
- CCCHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES INC3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- CUCLEMSON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $43k
- BFBIG FISH CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $8k
- DSDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +48%
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.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Wilmington university is committed to excellence in teaching, relevancy of the curriculum, and individual attention to students. as an institution with admissions policies that provide access for all, it offers opportunity for higher…
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Strengthening the community by connecting people through charitable giving
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To promote and strengthen the bioscience industry in the state of delaware.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Community Foundation 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 44 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 — 2% 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.
57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 77 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 SANFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FAITHFUL FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LIMEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CLASSIC MOTOR MUSEUM OF ST MICHAELS INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG FISH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds STRIVE HOW YOU LEAD MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR ↗
- Who funds DROP IN THE BUCKET ↗
- Who funds AVALON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE BREAST CANCER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds WIDENER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds IPTAY ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds NAACP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRVOTE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds DEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Philanthropy Delaware FKA Delaware Grantmakers Association ↗
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 · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · United Way of Delaware · Welfare Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Bacchieri Foundation · Vinton Family Foundation · The Anthony & Catherine Fusco Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation 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 Struthers Family 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.
- Christiana Care Health System Inc — 43% of income from government
- Leading Youth Through Empowerment Inc — 39% of income from government
- Limen House Inc — 38% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc — 33% of income from government
- The Ministry of Caring Inc — 30% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Historical Society of Delaware — 18% of income from government
- Delaware State University — 18% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Faithful Friends Inc — 15% of income from government
- Delaware Nature Society Inc — 13% of income from government
- Delaware Community Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
- Brandywine Baroque Inc — 11% of income from government
- Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition Inc — 7% of income from government
- Grand Opera House Inc — 5% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Christiana Care Health Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Delaware — 1% of income from government
- Philanthropy Delaware Fka Delaware Grantmakers Association — 0% of income from government
- Sanford School — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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