Delaware · Private foundation
Wakefield Family Fund Inc
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.
- $80k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 54
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $453k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Wakefield Family Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $80k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $58k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $45k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $46k | 69% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $40k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $32k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 50 | $36k | 12% |
| FY2018 | 54 | $35k | 30% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christiana Care Health System Inc | $31,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Salvation Army | $27,750 | 9 | n/a |
| Food Bank of Delaware Inc | $22,950 | 8 | 0% |
| The Ministry of Caring Inc | $17,250 | 8 | 0% |
| Millbrook School | $14,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Christ Memorial Chapel | $10,900 | 5 | n/a |
| Blair Academy | $10,800 | 2 | 0% |
| Reconcile New Orleans Inc | $7,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hobe Sound Community Chest Inc | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Severn School Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 64 recipients with no EIN on record ($189k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wakefield Family Fund Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Marmot Foundation · Welfare Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · United Way of Delaware · The Anthony & Catherine Fusco Foundation · Ederic Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Wakefield Family Fund Inc
- How much does Wakefield Family Fund Inc give?
- Wakefield Family Fund Inc reported 16 grants totaling $80,060 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 54 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wakefield Family Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Religion (14%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Wakefield Family Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Christiana Care Health System Inc ($31k), The Salvation Army ($28k), Food Bank of Delaware Inc ($23k).
- Does Wakefield Family Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wakefield Family Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wakefield Family Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaware Community Foundation Inc, Longwood Foundation Inc, Nor' Easter Foundation Inc.
- Where is Wakefield Family Fund Inc based?
- Wakefield Family Fund Inc is based in DE.
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