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· Private foundation

Welfare Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
69
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$5.0MHuman Services$3.6MArts & Culture$2.9MHousing & Shelter$2.9MHealth$1.4MYouth Development$844kEnvironment$676kRecreation & Sports$585kOther$0
02FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k24 grants · $645k
  • $50k–250k43 grants · $3.4M
  • $250k+2 grants · $600k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$107M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA OF DELAWARE$300,000
KINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC$300,000
SANFORD SCHOOL$200,000
GRAND OPERA HOUSE$150,000
CHILDREN & FAMILIES FIRST DELAWARE INC$150,000
WEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$150,000
INTERFAITH COMMUNITY HOUSING OF DELAWARE INC$150,000
KENNETT LIBRARY$125,000
LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER$113,000
URSULINE ACADEMY$100,000
BAYHEALTH FOUNDATION$100,000
LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$100,000
END COMMUNITY VIOLENCE NOW INC$100,000
LAUREL REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$100,000
TEENSHARP$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KENCREST SERVICES: $40k → 7%FOR THE LOVE OF A VETERAN INC: $50k → 9%SURVIVOR VENTURES INC: $100k → 19%LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES OF DOVER: $100k → 10%MARY CAMPBELL CENTER: $100k → 10%GREEN BERET PROJECT: $75k → 11%DELMARVA ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE INC: $100k → 10%GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $50k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $50k → 6%INGLESIDE HOMES INC: $75k → 10%CHEER INC: $150k → 10%MAMIE A WARREN SENIOR CENTER INC: $16k → 11%THE WAY HOME: $100k → 10%GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $30k → 6%GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES: $25k → 6%BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION: $18k → 10%1 IN 7B FOUNDATION: $60k → 6%A BETTER CHANCE FOR OUR CHILDREN INC: $40k → 10%TOMARO'S CHANGE: $15k → 10%ROOFS FROM THE HEART: $50k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF NORTHERN NEW CASTLE COUNTY: $200k → 10%PEACE BY PIECE INC: $66k → 10%LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $250k → 10%KINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $300k → 10%LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $113k → 10%THE VILLAGE TREE INC: $50k → 10%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $100k → 10%DELAWARE ADOLESCENT PROGRAM INC: $50k → 10%JEFFERSON STREET CENTER INC: $22k → 10%NEWARK DAY NURSERY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER: $75k → 10%NEWARK SENIOR CENTER: $100k → 10%KIND TO KIDS FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%YMCA OF DELAWARE: $300k → 10%YMCA OF DELAWARE: $200k → 10%CHILDREN & FAMILIES FIRST DELAWARE INC: $150k → 10%CHILDREN & FAMILIES FIRST DELAWARE INC: $75k → 10%METROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
CA
KY
VA
MD
DE
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 23 repeat orgs$16M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
170

Total granted

$4.5M
$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+7%

Still filing today

87%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthHousing & ShelterYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE
    2× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +43%
  • LA
    LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $363k · revenue +1%
  • SM
    ST MICHAEL'S SCHOOL AND NURSERY INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $341k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • FT
    FORUM TO ADVANCE MINORITIES IN ENGINEERING INC
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue -49%
  • TM
    THE MINISTRY OF CARING INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -11%
  • EM
    Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Delaware Prosperity Partnership Inc

To lead the state of delaware's economic development efforts.

Community Improvement
2
Delaware Advancement Corporation

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.

—
3
Delaware Center for Health Innovation Inc

The organization develops, facilitates, and oversees the implementation of collaborative efforts aimed at transforming the delivery of health care services in delaware.

—
4
Children's Advocacy Center of 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.

Human Services
5
Housing Alliance Delaware

Our mission is to advance housing opportunities, end homelessness, and promote thriving communities for all.

Housing & Shelter
6
Child Inc

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…

Human Services
7
Aids Delaware Inc

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.

Health
8
Preservation Delaware
Arts & Culture
9
Delaware County Economic Development Corporation

To promote new business and assist existing businesses in delaware county, pa to create employment opportunities

—
10
Delaware Performing Arts Center Inc

None

Arts & Culture
11
Legal Services Corp of Delaware

Provision of legal services.

Crime & Legal
12
Delaware Agricultural Museum Association

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…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Delaware; 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.
04the grantee network

198 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. 198 of the 245 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
195/198
Grantees still filing
108/198
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MICHAEL'S SCHOOL AND NURSERY INC: $341,300 · Other+99 more: $8,925,159 · Other+99 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE: $500,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTI…LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $363,000 · Human ServicesLATIN AMERICAN COMM…KINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesKINGSWOOD COMMUNITY…CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST: $225,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN AND FAMILI…FAMILY PROMISE OF NORTHERN NEW CASTLE COUNTY: $200,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF N…CHEER INC: $150,000 · Human Services+23 more: $1,636,717 · Human Services+23 moreDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $450,000 · EducationDELAWARE STA…The Bryan Allen Stevenson School of Excellence: $200,000 · EducationThe Bryan Al…UPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $200,000 · EducationUPLAND COUNT…SANFORD SCHOOL: $200,000 · EducationSANFORD SCHO…SUSSEX MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $200,000 · EducationSUSSEX MONTE…ACADEMIA ANTONIA ALONSO CHARTER SCHOOL: $150,000 · EducationACADEMIA ANT…FREIRE FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationFREIRE FOUND…URBANPROMISE WILMINGTON INC: $150,000 · EducationURBANPROMISE…READING ASSIST INSTITUTE: $100,000 · EducationTHE TATNALL SCHOOL INC: $75,000 · Education+7 more: $265,000 · Education+7 moreGRAND OPERA HOUSE INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND OPE…Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc: $250,000 · Arts & CultureEleutheri…Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $175,000 · Arts & CultureBrandywin…JOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Arts & CultureJOSHUA M …DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE …DELAWARE THEATRE COMPANY: $100,000 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE …DELAWARE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureLOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE: $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSIC SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureOPERADELAWARE INC: $60,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $253,000 · Arts & Culture+7 moreFIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION F/K/A EASTSIDE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterTODMORDEN FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterMILFORD HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP: $175,000 · Housing & ShelterINTERFAITH COMMUNITY HOUSING OF DELAWARE: $150,000 · Housing & ShelterSPRINGBOARD DELAWARE: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterZOE MINISTRIES INC: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterLSS AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE ARC OF DELAWARE INC: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterDOVER INTERFAITH MISSION FOR HOUSING INC: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterSOJOURNERS' PLACE: $70,000 · Housing & ShelterREACH RIVERSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORP: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterSUPPORTING KIDDS INC: $60,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterEXCEPTIONAL CARE FOR CHILDREN: $200,000 · HealthTHE ROSA HEALTH CENTER INC: $100,000 · HealthBAYHEALTH FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $100,000 · HealthGAUDENZIA INC: $100,000 · HealthWHAT IS YOUR VOICE INC: $80,000 · HealthIMPACT LIFE INC: $75,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF DELAWARE INC: $75,000 · HealthAUTISM DELAWARE INC: $59,275 · HealthTOIVOA COACHING: $50,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $50,000 · HealthDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC: $47,900 · HealthCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY DELAWARE: $40,000 · HealthDO CARE DOULA FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · HealthFirst State Squash Inc: $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF WILMINGTON INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEENSHARP: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentDELAWARE COLLEGE SCHOLARS INC: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentMORE THAN FITNESS INC: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentSEAN LOCKE 24 FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL INTERSCHOLASTIC CYCLING ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentPETER SPENCER FAMILY LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentCONNECTING GENERATIONS: $30,000 · Youth Development
Other$9,266,459Human Services$3,374,717Education$2,140,000Arts & Culture$1,728,000Housing & Shelter$1,480,000Health$1,017,175Youth Development$715,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE: $500,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $450,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $363,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetST MICHAEL'S SCHOOL AND NURSERY INC: $341,300 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetKINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $300,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGRAND OPERA HOUSE INC: $300,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetFORUM TO ADVANCE MINORITIES IN ENGINEERING INC: $300,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetKENNETT LIBRARY: $300,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTHE MINISTRY OF CARING INC: $250,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetEleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $250,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST: $225,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $225,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF NORTHERN NEW CASTLE COUNTY: $200,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetFIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION F/K/A EASTSIDE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $200,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetDELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC: $200,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL CARE FOR CHILDREN: $200,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $200,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSANFORD SCHOOL: $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTODMORDEN FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetBe Ready Community Development Corporation: $200,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSUSSEX MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $200,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetDELAWARE WILD LANDS INC: $195,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMILFORD HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP: $175,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NEW CASTLE COUNTY: $175,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFirst State Squash Inc: $175,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $175,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC: $160,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetACADEMIA ANTONIA ALONSO CHARTER SCHOOL: $150,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFREIRE FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSUSSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $150,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetINTERFAITH COMMUNITY HOUSING OF DELAWARE: $150,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetURBANPROMISE WILMINGTON INC: $150,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetSunday Breakfast Mission: $150,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHEER INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENCE SCHOOL INC: $129,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDELAWARE BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $125,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE EVERETT INC: $125,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetTHE MARY CAMPBELL CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSPRINGBOARD DELAWARE: $100,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DELAWARE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOCKESSIN COLORED SCHOOL 107: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLAUREL REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetVILLAGE EDUCATION TUTORS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetTHE ROSA HEALTH CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budget
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.

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.

Longwood Foundation I…Delaware Community Fo…Laffey-McHugh Foundat…Crestlea Foundation I…Wsfs Cares FoundationChichester Dupont Fou…United Way of DelawareMarmot FoundationIncyte Charitable Giv…Milton and Hattie Kut…Ellice & Rosa McDonal…The Carl M Freeman Fo…
Longwood Foundation IncDE263.4× affinity138 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Welfare Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Welfare Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
26rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Welfare Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 245 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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By state
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