Delaware · Nonprofit
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF DELAWARE INC
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF DELAWARE INC (Delaware) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $647,717 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($283,630). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $648k
- Net assets
- $205k
What Communities in Schools of Delaware Inc does
Mission
Communities in schools of delaware trains and supports site coordinators who work closely with schools to identify the most vulnerable students, and develop and implement a comprehensive, targeted, and customized plan to get them back on track.these interventions include brokering partners and programs into school. Our approach includes:non-academic assistance: connecting young people with a host of services - healthcare, housing, safety, nutrition - resulting in students more prepared to learn.one-to-one mentoring: instilling the confidence to succeed, the belief that education creates opportunity, and setting the expectation for success.tutoring and academic support: increasing academic performance and building confidence.family assistance & parent engagement: ensuring children have a supportive home life, and that parents have access to the services they need.out-of-school enrichment & service learning: strengthening the resiliency of children to succeed in life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Communities in schools of delaware brokers and develops mentoring/tutoring, after-school programs, individual interventions, and family assistance.
$1,800,043 spent$1,862,980 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,800,043.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $388k to $267k (−31%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 41% · 2018 22% · 2022 14% · 2023 12% · 2024 11% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF DELAWARE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Carlton Lampkins
Executive director
Board chair
Enid D Wallace-Simms
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $223k → $13k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF DELAWARE INC’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
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF DELAWARE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF DELAWARE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 60% · 2019 58% · 2020 42% · 2021 59% · 2022 100% · 2023 77% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
50% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF DELAWARE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF DELAWARE INC draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $158k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF DELAWARE INC's revenue grew 49% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF DELAWARE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $323k on record.
- GRANTS IN AID$128k
- INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES$115k
- STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES$80k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF DELAWARE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF DELAWARE INC?
- COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF DELAWARE INC (Delaware) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $647,717 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($283,630). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF DELAWARE INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $647,717 in grants to COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF DELAWARE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF DELAWARE INC?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $283,630 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF DELAWARE INC 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing