· Private foundation
Wsfs Community Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k29 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DELAWARE COLLEGE SCHOLARS | $50,000 |
| DELAWARE PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP INC | $50,000 |
| LUCY OUTREACH | $25,000 |
| WHYY | $15,000 |
| URBANPROMISE - CAMDEN NJ | $15,000 |
| BRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM | $10,000 |
| HOUSING PARTNERSHIP OF CHESTER COUNTY | $10,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DELAWARE (WILMINGTON) | $8,500 |
| NEHEMIAH GATEWAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION (NEW CASTLE COUNTY) | $6,500 |
| PACDC | $6,500 |
| GOOD NEIGHBORS HOME REPAIR | $6,000 |
| LA RED HEALTH CENTER | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS DELAWARE | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 56% 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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
Leadership delaware, inc. (ldi) recruits outstanding delawareans and prepares them with the knowledge, vision, integrity and networks to significantly impact and transform their communities, and to excel at community, non-profit,…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
Our mission is to strengthen delaware by maximizing community-based philanthropy.
The organization develops, facilitates, and oversees the implementation of collaborative efforts aimed at transforming the delivery of health care services in delaware.
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.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
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 delaware center for justice, inc. seeks to ensure an effective, efficient, and equitable system of justice in delaware through advocacy, direct services, research and public education.
Our mission is to educate students who will serve god and impact the world through biblical thought and action.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc and the most unlike its peers is Whyy 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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 37 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 DELAWARE PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COLLEGE SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds LUCY OUTREACH A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds Housing Partnership of Chester County Inc ↗
- Who funds BRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds NEHEMIAH GATEWAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels Delaware Inc ↗
- Who funds LA RED HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENCE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAIN LINE CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE FINANCIAL LITERACY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DREXEL NEUMANN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BACK ON MY FEET ↗
- Who funds SERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLYING GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Domestic Violence Center of Chester County ↗
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: Wsfs Cares Foundation · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Incyte Charitable Giving Foundation · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey
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 Wsfs Community Foundation 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.
- La Red Health Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Christiana Care Health System Inc — 43% of income from government
- Nehemiah Gateway Community Development Corporation — 26% of income from government
- Delaware College Scholars Inc — 18% of income from government
- Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc — 4% of income from government
- Serviam Girls Academy Inc — 2% of income from government
- Delaware Prosperity Partnership Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Independence School 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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