Delaware · Nonprofit
ACTION FOR DELAWARE'S CHILDREN
ACTION FOR DELAWARE'S CHILDREN (Delaware) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being HAPPY DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ACTION FOR DELAWARE'S CHILDREN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,862 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,862 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Incyte Charitable Giving Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Laffey-McHugh Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Crestlea Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of ACTION FOR DELAWARE'S CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACTION FOR DELAWARE'S CHILDREN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
40% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACTION FOR DELAWARE'S CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of ACTION FOR DELAWARE'S CHILDREN's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Incyte Charitable Giving Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchDE · backs 15 organizations that share your funders · funds 66 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Laffey-McHugh Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchDE · backs 22 organizations that share your funders · funds 170 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Crestlea Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchDE · backs 18 organizations that share your funders · funds 167 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Longwood Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchDE · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · funds 309 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Welfare Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchDE · backs 21 organizations that share your funders · funds 135 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Anthony & Catherine Fusco Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchDE · backs 12 organizations that share your funders · funds 40 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Christiana Care Health Services Inclocalportfolio matchDE · funds 39 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Chichester Dupont Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchDE · funds 73 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bayhealth Medical Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Del-One Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michael and Ericka Hynansky Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundationshared funderslocalDE · backs 13 organizations that share your funders · funds 39 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ACTION FOR DELAWARE'S CHILDREN
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACTION FOR DELAWARE'S CHILDREN: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ACTION FOR DELAWARE'S CHILDREN?
- ACTION FOR DELAWARE'S CHILDREN (Delaware) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being HAPPY DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACTION FOR DELAWARE'S CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $25,000 in grants to ACTION FOR DELAWARE'S CHILDREN, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTION FOR DELAWARE'S CHILDREN?
- HAPPY DIFFERENCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTION FOR DELAWARE'S CHILDREN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 2funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing