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DELAWARE INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS IN EDUCA

DELAWARE INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS IN EDUCA (Delaware) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,029 to it, the largest being LAFFEY-MCHUGH FOUNDATION ($81,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$443k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$174k
Net assets
$512k
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Delaware Institute for the Arts in Educa does

Mission

Diae's mission is to inspire the artist within each student through the visual and performing arts in the classroom and beyond by (1) engaging all art forms with cross disciplinary learning; (2) connecting professional artists with students and educators; (3) offering programs that foster discovery, learning beyond the classroom, and understanding of one's place in the world around them. Diae is the preeminent arts integration service provider in delaware. We serve every public school district. We serve every head start center. We work with a robust team of teaching artists in all disciplines in all three counties. We are the "go to organization for educator professional development in arts integration. Parents value and demand diae programs for their children, infant through high school.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. During the 2024-2025 school year, diae served 3,883 students, 391 teachers, and 119 parents/caregivers across our three program areas: k-12 artist in residencies, delaware wolf trap early learning through the arts, and teacher professional development. Diae receives critical support from the state of delaware through grant-in-aid, the delaware division of the arts, corporations, foundations, and individual donors. We operate in public, charter, and private schools in all three counties as well as a small number of community-based organizations that serve youth.delaware wolf trap (dwt) delaware wolf trap early learning through the arts (dwt) brings wolf trap trained teaching artists (ta) into the early childhood classroom to provide professional development in arts integration for early childhood educators and their students ages 3-5. The teacher selects a math or literacy focus and an art focus (music, dance, or drama). The residencies are 16-sessions and teachers receive 12 professional credit hours at the completion of the residency. They learn arts-integrated strategies to support foundational learning in literacy and math and social emotional development. Dwt is one of 27…

    $312,851 spent$155,658 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $312,851.

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 ($277k) Expenses 100 ($260k) Net assets 100 ($164k)2018 Revenue 96 ($266k) Expenses 85 ($222k) Net assets 129 ($212k)2019 Revenue 106 ($293k) Expenses 77 ($200k) Net assets 191 ($314k)2020 Revenue 92 ($254k) Expenses 105 ($274k) Net assets 185 ($305k)2021 Revenue 113 ($313k) Expenses 96 ($250k) Net assets 234 ($385k)2022 Revenue 106 ($294k) Expenses 103 ($267k) Net assets 237 ($389k)2023 Revenue 126 ($350k) Expenses 126 ($328k) Net assets 251 ($412k)2024 Revenue 147 ($407k) Expenses 140 ($364k) Net assets 286 ($470k)2025 Revenue 160 ($443k) Expenses 160 ($417k) Net assets 311 ($512k)
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Revenue (160)Expenses (160)Net assets (311)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $217k to $317k (+46%).

$209k
$217k
$317k
$343k
$392k
$391k
$454k
$508k
$541k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 49% · 2018 44% · 2019 47% · 2020 60% · 2021 76% · 2022 69% · 2023 63% · 2024 57% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
’17
$44k
’18
$93k
’19
−$20k
’20
$63k
’21
$27k
’22
$21k
’23
$43k
’24
$26k
’25
7.7
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.

Chief executive

Ann Thomas Moffett

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed8910101013131315
Joined·+3+2+0+0+4+3+0+4
No longer listed·21001302
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $19k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS IN EDUCA’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 INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS IN EDUCA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

47%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 85% · 2019 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 96% · 2022 54% · 2023 67% — diversifying over time.

“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

40% of DELAWARE INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS IN EDUCA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

99% of DELAWARE INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS IN EDUCA's grant income comes from Delaware funders.

NY
PA
DE

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

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’23
Delaware out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding DELAWARE INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS IN EDUCA receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.

Federal$10k
grants $10kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$10k

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.

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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 14%Fundraising 11%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds DELAWARE INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS IN EDUCA?
DELAWARE INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS IN EDUCA (Delaware) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,029 to it, the largest being LAFFEY-MCHUGH FOUNDATION ($81,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DELAWARE INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS IN EDUCA have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $174,029 in grants to DELAWARE INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS IN EDUCA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DELAWARE INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS IN EDUCA?
LAFFEY-MCHUGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $81,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DELAWARE INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS IN EDUCA 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 9 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