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DELAWARE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

DELAWARE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $228,571 to it, the largest being PHILADELPHIA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($228,571). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$229k
Net assets
$2.1M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Delaware County Economic Development Corporation does

Mission

To promote new business and assist existing businesses in delaware county, pa to create employment opportunities

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To promote new business and assist existing businesses in delaware county, pa to create employment opportunities

    $813,718 spent$160,691 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $813,718.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($666k) Expenses 100 ($691k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 130 ($869k) Expenses 105 ($729k) Net assets 113 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 124 ($824k) Expenses 160 ($1.1M) Net assets 87 ($958k)2020 Revenue 1900 ($13M) Expenses 1795 ($12M) Net assets 110 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 1606 ($11M) Expenses 1519 ($10M) Net assets 128 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 260 ($1.7M) Expenses 201 ($1.4M) Net assets 159 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 187 ($1.2M) Expenses 136 ($941k) Net assets 179 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 189 ($1.3M) Expenses 157 ($1.1M) Net assets 195 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (189)Expenses (157)Net assets (195)

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 $1.3M to $2.3M (+72%).

$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.1M
$1.3M
$2.3M
$2.3M
$2.4M
$2.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 97% · 2018 79% · 2019 86% · 2020 92% · 2021 99% · 2022 96% · 2023 87% · 2024 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$25k
’17
$140k
’18
−$279k
’19
$245k
’20
$198k
’21
$340k
’22
$302k
’23
$180k
’24
24
months of
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.

Board chair

Elaine Paul Schaefer

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed77777879
Joined·+1+0+3+3+1+1+2
No longer listed·1033020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $46k → $60k.

Funder
'17
'18
'22
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of DELAWARE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’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.

Where its funders are

100% of DELAWARE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’22
Pennsylvania out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like DELAWARE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 25%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds DELAWARE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
DELAWARE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $228,571 to it, the largest being PHILADELPHIA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($228,571). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DELAWARE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $228,571 in grants to DELAWARE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DELAWARE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
PHILADELPHIA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $228,571 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DELAWARE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 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.

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 1 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