How much does Wa Speakman Family Foundation give?

Wa Speakman Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $169,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Wa Speakman Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (62%), Health (15%), Youth Development (14%).

Who are Wa Speakman Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Tower Hill School Association ($225k), Upland Country Day School ($185k), St James School ($164k).

Does Wa Speakman Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Wa Speakman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Wa Speakman Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaware Community Foundation Inc, Sharp Foundation, Welfare Foundation Inc.

Where is Wa Speakman Family Foundation based?

Wa Speakman Family Foundation is based in DE.

Foundation Dossiers

Delaware · Private foundation

Wa Speakman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$170k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 15
Grants FY2024: 12
Organizations funded FY2023: 17%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $25,000
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 18; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 6
Total assets, FY2024: $1.3M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Wa Speakman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	14	$165k	0%
FY2023	12	$165k	17%
FY2022	8	$152k	75%
FY2021	16	$219k	19%
FY2020	14	$298k	7%
FY2019	17	$166k	6%
FY2018	16	$157k	19%
FY2017	18	$150k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$914kHealth$220kYouth Development$200kArts & Culture$75kEnvironment$29kRecreation & Sports$18kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Tower Hill School Association	$225,000	8	0%
Upland Country Day School	$185,000	6	1%
St James School	$163,800	8	n/a
Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Foundation	$130,000	5	8%
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc	$71,000	7	1%
Work to Ride Inc	$70,000	6	1%
Trustees of Westminster School Inc	$55,000	5	0%
The Pilot School Incorporated	$35,000	5	0%
Benchmark School	$35,000	5	0%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc	$30,000	2	0%

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All grantees of Wa Speakman Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Tower Hill School Association	$225,000	8	0%
Upland Country Day School	$185,000	6	1%
St James School	$163,800	8	n/a
Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Foundation	$130,000	5	8%
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc	$71,000	7	1%
Work to Ride Inc	$70,000	6	1%
Trustees of Westminster School Inc	$55,000	5	0%
The Pilot School Incorporated	$35,000	5	0%
Benchmark School	$35,000	5	0%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Woodberry Forest School	$25,000	3	0%
The Protestant Episcopal High School in Virginia	$25,000	1	0%
Stroud Water Research Center	$24,315	5	0%
Foxcroft School	$22,500	5	0%
Chester County Hospital	$20,000	2	0%
Delaware College of Art and Design	$18,500	2	0%
Friends of Wilmington Parks	$15,000	3	6%
Wake Forest University	$15,000	3	0%
The Auxiliary of Nemours Children's Hospital Delaware Inc	$7,750	1	5%
Trinity College	$7,500	3	0%
Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc	$5,000	4	0%
LCH Health and Community Services	$2,500	1	n/a
The Tatnall School Inc	$2,500	1	0%
First State Squash Inc	$2,500	1	2%
Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Historical Society of Delaware	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($269k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wa Speakman Family Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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 Foundation IncDE29.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Sharp Foundation · Welfare Foundation Inc · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Marmot Foundation · Rencourt Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Ederic Foundation Inc · Fair Play Foundation · Wakefield Family Fund Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation

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.

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About Wa Speakman Family Foundation

How much does Wa Speakman Family Foundation give?: Wa Speakman Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $169,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Wa Speakman Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (62%), Health (15%), Youth Development (14%).
Who are Wa Speakman Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Tower Hill School Association ($225k), Upland Country Day School ($185k), St James School ($164k).
Does Wa Speakman Family Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wa Speakman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wa Speakman Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaware Community Foundation Inc, Sharp Foundation, Welfare Foundation Inc.
Where is Wa Speakman Family Foundation based?: Wa Speakman Family Foundation is based in DE.