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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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE | $11,500 |
| CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| WHYY | $10,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH CHRISTIANA HUNDRED | $10,000 |
| UNICEF | $10,000 |
| MILLBROOK SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| EYC FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| ANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM | $3,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA | $2,000 |
| ANNAPOLIS SUMMER GRADE THEATER | $1,000 |
| BERNIE'S HOUSE | $1,000 |
| DELAWARE BOTANICAL GARDENS | $1,000 |
| MARYLAND HALL FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS | $1,000 |
| PAWS FOR PEOPLE | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 57 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- FBFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $23k · revenue +107%
- MSMILLBROOK SCHOOL5× · 2017–2021 · $14k · revenue +46%
- BABLAIR ACADEMY2× · 2020–2021 · $11k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $8k
- EYEASTPORT YACHT CLUBone grant, 2024 · $4k
- ALANNAPOLIS LIGHT HOUSEone grant, 2021 · $2k
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 museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
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…
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.
Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…
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 organization's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history and technology of delaware and the delmarva peninsula's farm life/culture and to offer public education programs and services related to aspects of the…
The organization's mission is to maximize the community's resources to improve the quality of lives of all delawareans.
The mission of the first state montessori academy is to create successful, contributing, life-long learners in a montessori public educational program for students in kindergarten through 8th grade.
Delaware nature society connects people with the natural world to improve our environment through education, advocacy, and conservation.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
To provide highly motivated students with a curriculum that is integrated with the relevant curriculum at delaware state university such that all students graduate with one to two years of college credits, preparing them for completion of…
Strengthening the community by connecting people through charitable giving
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lighthouse 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 59 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) — 2% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 125 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 CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MINISTRY OF CARING INC ↗
- Who funds LOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILLBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLAIR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds RECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds SEVERN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Sunday Breakfast Mission ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE 1103 MARKET STREET FOUNDATION ↗
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 · 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
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 Wakefield Family Fund Inc 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.
- Connecting Generations — 89% of income from government
- St Michael's School and Nursery Inc — 48% of income from government
- Christiana Care Health System Inc — 43% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc — 33% of income from government
- Delaware College of Art and Design — 32% of income from government
- The Ministry of Caring Inc — 30% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Delaware Inc — 19% of income from government
- Historical Society of Delaware — 18% of income from government
- Delaware Community Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
- Delaware Symphony Association Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Delaware Theatre Company — 8% of income from government
- Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% of income from government
- Children's Beach House Inc — 5% of income from government
- United Way of Martin County Inc — 4% of income from government
- Special Olympics Delaware Inc — 3% of income from government
- Delaware Botanic Gardens Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Banner Lake Club Inc — 1% of income from government
- Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wilmington Country Club — 0% of income from government
- The Tatnall School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Blair Academy — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs 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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