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The Struthers Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$794k
Granted FY2023
20
Grants FY2023
8
States reached
$210k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.5MAnimals$365kArts & Culture$150kRecreation & Sports$143kHealth$68kEnvironment$32kCivil Rights$21kYouth Development$14kOther$0
02FY2023 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $541,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $793,900 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $252,400 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k14 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $460k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS VIRGINIA$5,000
DROP IN THE BUCKET$5,000
AVALON FOUNDATION$5,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, INC$2,500
NAACP FOUNDATION$2,500
FAIRVOTE$2,500
GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND, INC$2,500
DEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL, INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$2,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM$1,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Wounded Warrior Project: $250 → 14%YMCA of Delaware: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
SC
GA
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 26 repeat orgs$283k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2023, 18 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
36

Total granted

$2.1M
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+31%

Still filing today

65%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23
EducationHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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

  • SS
    SANFORD SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2023 · $693k · revenue +52%
  • FF
    FAITHFUL FRIENDS INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $363k · revenue +113%
  • CC
    CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • CU
    CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $43k
  • BF
    BIG FISH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -6%
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
Delaware Valley University

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…

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2
Wilmington University Inc

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…

Education
3
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc

The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.

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4
United States Naval Institute

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.

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5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
6
University of New Haven

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…

Education
7
DePauw University

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…

Education
8
Delaware County Foundation

Strengthening the community by connecting people through charitable giving

Philanthropy
9
Furman University

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.

Education
10
Delaware Bioscience Association Inc

To promote and strengthen the bioscience industry in the state of delaware.

Community Improvement
11
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

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…

Health
12
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 75 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/57
Grantees still filing
44/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Penn State University: $505,750 · OtherPenn State UniversityJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY: $130,750 · OtherJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITYCLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $124,481 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITYCLASSIC MOTOR MUSEUM: $117,314 · OtherCLASSIC MOTOR MUSEUMCLEMSON UNIVERSITY (IPTAY): $43,200 · Other+38 more: $121,985 · Other+38 moreSANFORD SCHOOL: $692,500 · EducationSANFORD SCHOOLCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+7 more: $11,000 · EducationFAITHFUL FRIENDS INC: $362,997 · AnimalsFAITHFUL FRIENDS …+2 more: $1,250 · AnimalsCHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES INC: $30,000 · HealthDELAWARE BREAST CANCER COALITION INC: $4,500 · Health+5 more: $1,650 · HealthDELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY INC: $31,000 · EnvironmentTHE PENNSYLVANIA PINK ZONE: $1,250 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentGRAND OPERA HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCLASSIC MOTOR MUSEUM OF ST MICHAELS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $6,100 · Arts & CultureAVALON FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $850 · Arts & CultureSTRIVE HOW YOU LEAD MATTERS INC: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsSpecial Olympics Virginia Inc: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsRODNEY STREET TENNIS AND TUTORING ASSOCIATION INC: $500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $250 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,043,480Education$853,500Animals$364,247Health$36,150Environment$33,250Arts & Culture$31,950Recreation & Sports$11,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSANFORD SCHOOL: $692,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetFAITHFUL FRIENDS INC: $362,997 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY INC: $31,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIMEN HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGRAND OPERA HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLASSIC MOTOR MUSEUM OF ST MICHAELS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $6,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTRIVE HOW YOU LEAD MATTERS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDROP IN THE BUCKET: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVALON FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Olympics Virginia Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWIDENER UNIVERSITY: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE BREAST CANCER COALITION INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetIPTAY: $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRVOTE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPhilanthropy Delaware FKA Delaware Grantmakers Association: $1,825 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTMAS SHOP FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA PINK ZONE: $1,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRE COUNTY PAWS INC: $1,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBaby Quest Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MINISTRY OF CARING INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDYWINE BAROQUE INC: $600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANFORD HOME AND SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST MICHAELS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRODNEY STREET TENNIS AND TUTORING ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJON BON JOVI SOUL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIATA COLLEGE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONGWOOD GARDENS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Longwood Foundation I…Laffey-McHugh Foundat…United Way of DelawareWelfare Foundation IncCrestlea Foundation I…Wsfs Cares FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Bacchieri FoundationVinton Family Foundat…The Anthony & Catheri…Chichester Dupont Fou…
Delaware Community Foundation IncDE44.6× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Struthers Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Struthers Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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How do I get to The Struthers Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Struthers Family 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 75 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $625k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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