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University of Delaware
The UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE is a major research university dedicated to cultivating learning, advancing knowledge, and fostering the exchange of ideas through teaching, research and public service.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 177 grants below total $45,180,416 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $261,607,716 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $216,427,300 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 $10k10 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k52 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k72 grants · $8.9M
- $250k+43 grants · $35M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,474,760 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,309,736 |
| CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES | $1,972,462 |
| CARING CROSS | $1,878,632 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $1,742,858 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY | $1,704,248 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $1,618,436 |
| RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $1,608,671 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $1,446,539 |
| THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION | $1,395,189 |
| RPS GROUP INC | $1,226,546 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $1,216,486 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | $1,123,398 |
| STATE OF DELAWARE | $767,338 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $753,996 |
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 (FY17–23, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
202 repeat relationships — 140 still active in FY2023, 62 since wound down; 29 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- DSDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · $21M · revenue +76%
- TNTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $13M · revenue +75%
- CCCHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES INC7× · 2017–2023 · $11M · revenue +88%
Funded once
- HUHHS US FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATIONone grant, 2022 · $821k
- PCPHI CHI MEDICAL FRATERNITY INCone grant, 2017 · $574k
- MIMANGO INCone grant, 2022 · $320k
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 university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
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…
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…
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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.
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Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the most unlike its peers is Deltares Usa 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 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
133 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. 133 of the 308 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds WESLEY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
- Who funds CARING CROSS INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE 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: Johns Hopkins University · University of Pittsburgh · American Chemical Society · Cornell University · Trustees of Boston University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · National Collegiate Athletic Association · American Heart Association Inc · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · Yale University · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation
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 University of Delaware 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.
- Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine — 100% of income from government
- Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Inc — 69% of income from government
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Kessler Foundation Inc — 54% of income from government
- Future Harvest Inc — 41% of income from government
- Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc — 35% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Teen Warehouse Inc — 28% of income from government
- Hilltop Lutheran Neighborhood Center Inc — 28% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Delaware State University — 18% of income from government
- Neighborhood House Inc — 16% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Autism Delaware Inc — 12% of income from government
- Community Health Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Christiana Care Health Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 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.