Delaware · Nonprofit
CONNECTING GENERATIONS
CONNECTING GENERATIONS (Delaware) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $790,931 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($250,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $545k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $791k
- Net assets
- $381k
What Connecting Generations does
Mission
Connecting Generations provides the tools that children need to become emotionally strong, resilient, and socially competent individuals who can successfully navigate school and life. Working exclusively through schools and other educational institutions, our mentoring and social-emotional learning programs help children overcome adversity, develop resilience, and build a strong foundation of social-emotional skills such as how to set goals, make responsible decisions, manage emotions, and build positive relationships with adults and peers. These skills are essential for students to engage fully in school and to become advocates for their own success. Our work directly supports public education and plays a critical role in helping break the cycle of adversity in delaware. Our vision is to create strong, sustainable communities through collaborative relationships that create positive, healthy environments in which youth and their families can thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Creative mentoring is our school-based mentoring program. Creative mentoring partners with 100 schools and community-based programs in delaware in all three counties. Mentoring occurs during school hours, and within designated times for community-based after-school programs. We provide mentor recruitment, application processing, criminal/child abuse background and reference checks, mentor training, technical support to all programs throughout the school year, and program evaluation. For over 30 years, Connecting Generations has trained over 16,000 adults and high school students to provide mentorship to thousands of students across the state. Our creative education division provides 6 social-emotional learning programs and workshops for students in kn -8th grade - seasons of respect (exploration and journey) (sor), peer mentoring - character climb, power of water, summer breeze and respect through the arts. Sor is a set of facilitator-led sessions for classrooms and small groups that teach children how to identify and develop social-emotional skills. Students learn how to strengthen relationships, improve self-esteem, build confidence, manage emotions, make responsible decisions,…
$477,439 spent$29,194 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $477,439.
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 2020 to 2021, from $277k to $478k (+73%).
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 61% · 2018 65% · 2019 73% · 2020 87% · 2021 51% · 2022 93% · 2023 61% · 2024 85% · 2025 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of CONNECTING GENERATIONS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Cassandra Mckay Non-Voting
Executive director
Board chair
John Davis
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $150k → $190k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 CONNECTING GENERATIONS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 funders by total. 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
CONNECTING GENERATIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 52% · 2021 32% · 2022 82% · 2023 79% — 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
45% of CONNECTING GENERATIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% 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
61% of CONNECTING GENERATIONS's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $125k 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
CONNECTING GENERATIONS is better cushioned than half of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CONNECTING GENERATIONS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.
- GRANTS IN AID$2.0M
- OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE$68k
- STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES$40k
- INSTR SUPPORT SERVICES$4k
- INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES$3k
- INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPLIES$1k
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 CONNECTING GENERATIONS
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONNECTING GENERATIONS: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CONNECTING GENERATIONS?
- CONNECTING GENERATIONS (Delaware) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $790,931 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($250,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONNECTING GENERATIONS have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $790,931 in grants to CONNECTING GENERATIONS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONNECTING GENERATIONS?
- LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONNECTING GENERATIONS 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 19 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