Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
DELAWARE CANAL 21
DELAWARE CANAL 21 (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $222,352 to it, the largest being APGAR-BLACK FOUNDATION ($175,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $222k
- Net assets
- $18k
What Delaware Canal 21 does
Mission
The mission of Delaware Canal 21 is to organize, secure and support both existing and new public and private partnerships and new funding sources and operating models in order to supplement short-term and long-term maintenance and capital improvement initiatives by the commonwealth of pennsylvania to sustain the delaware canal. We seek to have the canal fully-watered, in order to preserve its many ecological, cultural, and economic benefits. We respect the delaware canal as an enduring historic artifact, we support it as a public recreation and civic amenity, and we honor its beauty.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Sustainability program - this program acknowledges the delaware canal requires a level of funding that simply cannot be adequately funded by a state park system and seeks to find a "business model" whereby the canal resumes fiscal sustainability. In 2023, Delaware Canal 21 promoted and sought additional support for implementing the recommendations of the 2022 feasibility study (I.e. Formation of a new county-level business partner such as an authority or special services district).
$47,116 spent78% of program spendingWater program - this program's goal is to ensure the delaware canal is fully watered for its entire 60 miles. In 2023, Delaware Canal 21 pursued partnerships seeking to advance the water augmentation plan.
$8,083 spent13% of program spendingAdvocacy and education program - the aim of this program is to collect and spread ideas about how to improve the delaware canal. This ranges from educating the stewards of our public asset about best practices and technological innovation, to educating the public about both the challenges and opportunities. In 2023, Delaware Canal 21 primarily educated the public about the results of the feasibility study.
$5,524 spent9% of program spendingTrail program - this program seeks to improve the delaware canal towpath trail and public access to that trail for all populations. In 2023, Delaware Canal 21 engaged various municipalities regarding plans laid out in the delaware canal workbook.
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $60,723.
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 2021 to 2022, from $198k to $83k (−58%).
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: 2019 29% · 2020 9% · 2021 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of DELAWARE CANAL 21’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $40k → $6k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 DELAWARE CANAL 21’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
DELAWARE CANAL 21 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 99% · 2019 67% · 2020 80% · 2021 78% · 2022 97% · 2023 83% — 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
22% of DELAWARE CANAL 21's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
86% of DELAWARE CANAL 21's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
DELAWARE CANAL 21's revenue fell 91% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like DELAWARE CANAL 21
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DELAWARE CANAL 21: 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 DELAWARE CANAL 21?
- DELAWARE CANAL 21 (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $222,352 to it, the largest being APGAR-BLACK FOUNDATION ($175,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DELAWARE CANAL 21 have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $222,352 in grants to DELAWARE CANAL 21, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DELAWARE CANAL 21?
- APGAR-BLACK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DELAWARE CANAL 21 find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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