· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE | $11,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| WHYY | $10,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH CHRISTIANA HUNDRED | $10,000 |
| UNICEF | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM | $10,000 |
| MILLBROOK SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| EYC FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| ANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM | $3,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA | $2,000 |
| DELAWARE BOTANICAL GARDENS | $1,000 |
| MARYLAND HALL FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS | $1,000 |
| ANNAPOLIS SUMMER GRADE THEATER | $1,000 |
| BERNIE'S HOUSE | $1,000 |
| PAWS FOR PEOPLE | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WHYY 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 THE 1103 MARKET STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wakefield Family Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wakefield Family Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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