· Private foundation
Welfare Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k24 grants · $645k
- $50k–250k43 grants · $3.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF DELAWARE | $300,000 |
| KINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $300,000 |
| SANFORD SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY HOUSING OF DELAWARE INC | $150,000 |
| GRAND OPERA HOUSE | $150,000 |
| WEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $150,000 |
| CHILDREN & FAMILIES FIRST DELAWARE INC | $150,000 |
| KENNETT LIBRARY | $125,000 |
| LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER | $113,000 |
| LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $100,000 |
| URSULINE ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| BAYHEALTH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| END COMMUNITY VIOLENCE NOW INC | $100,000 |
| TEENSHARP | $100,000 |
| LAUREL REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $100,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +23% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE2× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +43%
- LALATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC2× · 2022–2024 · $363k · revenue +1%
- SMST MICHAEL'S SCHOOL AND NURSERY INC2× · 2021–2024 · $341k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- FTFORUM TO ADVANCE MINORITIES IN ENGINEERING INCone grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue -49%
- TMTHE MINISTRY OF CARING INCone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -11%
- EMEleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Incone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue 0%
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.
To lead the state of delaware's economic development efforts.
To aggressively promote investment in muncie-delaware county which will result in the creation and retention of quality job opportunities and enhance the quality of life in our community.
The organization develops, facilitates, and oversees the implementation of collaborative efforts aimed at transforming the delivery of health care services in delaware.
To reduce the devastating long-term effects that child abuse has on children, their families and society through immediate, coordinated, child focused services, education, and advocacy.
Our mission is to advance housing opportunities, end homelessness, and promote thriving communities for all.
To be the leading advocate for delaware's children. we provide creative prevention and treatment programs that meet the changing needs of families. we serve dependent, neglected, and abused children and their parents. we provide programs…
To eliminate the spread and stigma of hiv/aids, improve the lives of those living with hiv/aids, and promote community health through comprehensive and culturally-sensitive services, education programs and advocacy.
To promote new business and assist existing businesses in delaware county, pa to create employment opportunities
None
Provision of legal services.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Delaware and the most unlike its peers is Toivoa Coaching. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
198 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. 198 of the 245 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAEL'S SCHOOL AND NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds KINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FORUM TO ADVANCE MINORITIES IN ENGINEERING INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds KENNETT LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE MINISTRY OF CARING INC ↗
- Who funds WEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL CARE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds UPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Bryan Allen Stevenson School of Excellence ↗
- Who funds Be Ready Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds TODMORDEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF NORTHERN NEW CASTLE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION F/K/A EASTSIDE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SUSSEX MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE WILD LANDS INC ↗
- Who funds First State Squash Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MILFORD HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FREIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sunday Breakfast Mission ↗
- Who funds ACADEMIA ANTONIA ALONSO CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY HOUSING OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds SUSSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
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: Longwood Foundation Inc · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · United Way of Delaware · Marmot Foundation · Incyte Charitable Giving Foundation · Milton and Hattie Kutz Foundation · Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation · The Carl M Freeman 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 Welfare Foundation 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.
- Reach Riverside Development Corp — 100% of income from government
- Laurel Redevelopment Corporation — 100% of income from government
- Delaware Arts Alliance Inc — 100% of income from government
- Love & Hope Rescue Mission — 100% of income from government
- Nanticoke Indian Assocation Inc — 100% of income from government
- Ocean View Historical Society — 100% of income from government
- Reading Assist Institute — 99% of income from government
- Connecting Generations — 89% of income from government
- Children and Families First — 87% of income from government
- A Better Chance for Our Children Inc — 85% of income from government
- Elizabeth W Murphey School Inc — 85% of income from government
- Delaware Futures Inc — 78% of income from government
- Delaware Adolescent Program Inc — 76% of income from government
- Family Promise of Northern New Castle County — 73% of income from government
- Delaware Center for Justice — 73% of income from government
- Kind to Kids Foundation — 69% of income from government
- Tova Community Health Inc — 69% of income from government
- Mamie a Warren Senior Center Inc — 65% of income from government
- Center for the Inland Bays Inc — 59% of income from government
- United Way of Delaware — 58% of income from government
- Culture Restoration Project in — 56% of income from government
- The Summer Learning Collaborative Inc — 54% of income from government
- Impact Life Inc — 54% of income from government
- Cheer Inc — 51% of income from government
- Science Technology and Research Institute of Delaware — 51% of income from government
- The Way Home Inc — 51% of income from government
- Green Beret Project Inc — 49% of income from government
- True Access Capital Corporation — 48% of income from government
- St Michael's School and Nursery Inc — 48% of income from government
- Read-Aloud Delaware Inc — 45% of income from government
- Friends of Hockessin Colored School 107 — 42% of income from government
- Lutheran Senior Services of Dover Inc — 41% of income from government
- Supporting Kidds Inc — 41% of income from government
- Leading Youth Through Empowerment Inc — 39% of income from government
- Jester Artspace — 39% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Society Inc — 38% of income from government
- Project New Start Inc — 37% of income from government
- Newark Senior Center Inc — 37% of income from government
- West End Neighborhood House Inc — 36% of income from government
- Challenge Program Inc — 36% of income from government
- More Than Fitness Inc — 35% of income from government
- The Rosa Health Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Latin American Community Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Veterans Watchmaker Initiative Inc — 34% 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
- Sojourners' Place — 30% of income from government
- Literacy Delaware — 30% of income from government
- The Ministry of Caring Inc — 30% of income from government
- Wilmington Institute Free Library — 30% of income from government
- Delaware Black Chamber of Commerce — 29% of income from government
- Seaford District Library Inc — 28% of income from government
- What Is Your Voice Inc — 27% of income from government
- Todmorden Foundation — 26% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Sussex County Habitat for Humanity — 23% of income from government
- Sean Locke 24 Foundation — 21% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of New Castle County — 21% of income from government
- 4YOUTH Productions Inc — 21% of income from government
- Joshua M Freeman Foundation — 20% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Delaware Inc — 19% of income from government
- Wilmington Alliance Inc — 19% of income from government
- La Esperanza Inc — 19% of income from government
- Delaware Shakespeare Festival Inc — 18% of income from government
- Historical Society of Delaware — 18% of income from government
- Delaware College Scholars Inc — 18% of income from government
- Neighborhood House Inc — 16% of income from government
- Greater Harrington Historical Socie — 16% of income from government
- Faithful Friends Inc — 15% of income from government
- Kalmar Nyckel Foundation — 14% of income from government
- Newark Arts Alliance Inc — 13% of income from government
- Delaware Community Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
- Blindsight Delaware Enterprises Inc — 12% of income from government
- Friends of Coochs Bridge Historic Site Inc — 12% of income from government
- Autism Delaware Inc — 12% of income from government
- Teensharp — 11% of income from government
- Delaware Children's Museum Inc — 11% of income from government
- Market Street Music Corporation — 11% of income from government
- Delaware Public Media Corporation — 11% of income from government
- Rehoboth Beach Historical Society — 10% of income from government
- Kingswood Community Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Everett Inc — 10% of income from government
- Wilmington Children's Chorus — 10% of income from government
- Operadelaware Inc — 9% of income from government
- Center for Creative Arts Inc — 9% of income from government
- Do Care Doula Foundation Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Music School of Delaware Inc — 9% of income from government
- Sussex Montessori School Inc — 9% of income from government
- First State Ballet Theatre Inc — 8% of income from government
- Delaware Theatre Company — 8% of income from government
- Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% of income from government
- Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition Inc — 7% of income from government
- Newark Union Corporation — 7% of income from government
- Edge for Tomorrow — 7% of income from government
- First State Squash Inc — 7% of income from government
- Zoe Ministries Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Mary Campbell Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Grand Opera House Inc — 5% of income from government
- Little Sisters of the Poor Inc — 5% of income from government
- Children's Beach House Inc — 5% of income from government
- Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc — 4% of income from government
- Bayhealth Foundation Corporation — 4% of income from government
- Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research Inc — 3% of income from government
- Leadership Delaware Inc — 3% of income from government
- Delaware Botanic Gardens Inc — 2% of income from government
- Ingleside Homes Inc — 2% of income from government
- Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc — 2% of income from government
- Serviam Girls Academy Inc — 2% of income from government
- Harry K Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Love Inc of Mid Delmarva Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Greater Lewes Foundation — 1% of income from government
- The Pilot School Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Delaware — 1% of income from government
- Tomaros Change — 1% of income from government
- Exceptional Care for Children — 0% of income from government
- Mental Health Association in Delaware Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Independence School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Sanford School — 0% of income from government
- The Tatnall School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Local Journalism Initiative 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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