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DELAWARE STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC

DELAWARE STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC (Delaware) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,379,149 to it, the largest being NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ($5,379,149). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.9M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$5.4M
Net assets
$9.4M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Delaware State Education Association Inc does

Mission

Advocate for the rights and interests of its members and outstanding public education for all students.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Leading the profession - dsea represents approximately 13,420 educational employees, 45 public health nurses, and 1,169 retirees in delaware. They assist locals in collaborative bargaining and problem solving. It is active in the negotiations of contracts, handling grievances, and providing legal defense if necessary. Instructional advocacy and education reform efforts assist dsea and local affiliates in being major players in the educational reform efforts on both a state and local effort. Dsea develops research data that will assist dsea and its local associations in achieving their goals and representing their members.organizing - dsea increases its strength as an association through increasing and maintenance of membership in the association. It provides training workshops for local associations, leaders, and members in areas of association and leadership development, develop handbooks and other training materials including newsletters and reports.communications - dsea provides ongoing communications with members and outside individuals/groups who impact public education fostering the understanding of dsea's mission, goals, and activities.government relations - dsea develops…

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

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 ($5.3M) Expenses 100 ($5.0M) Net assets 100 ($6.0M)2018 Revenue 114 ($6.1M) Expenses 110 ($5.5M) Net assets 109 ($6.6M)2019 Revenue 108 ($5.7M) Expenses 106 ($5.3M) Net assets 116 ($7.0M)2020 Revenue 110 ($5.9M) Expenses 107 ($5.4M) Net assets 124 ($7.4M)2021 Revenue 111 ($5.9M) Expenses 104 ($5.2M) Net assets 136 ($8.1M)2022 Revenue 116 ($6.1M) Expenses 110 ($5.5M) Net assets 146 ($8.8M)2023 Revenue 115 ($6.1M) Expenses 116 ($5.8M) Net assets 151 ($9.0M)2024 Revenue 123 ($6.5M) Expenses 132 ($6.6M) Net assets 149 ($8.9M)2025 Revenue 130 ($6.9M) Expenses 128 ($6.4M) Net assets 157 ($9.4M)
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Revenue (130)Expenses (128)Net assets (157)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $8.2M to $9.1M (+11%).

$7.0M
$7.9M
$8.2M
$9.1M
$9.8M
$10M
$11M
$11M
$11M
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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
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

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

$295k
’17
$565k
’18
$400k
’19
$494k
’20
$693k
’21
$630k
’22
$270k
’23
−$117k
’24
$503k
’25
14
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

Jeff Taschner

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+10+12+9+7+11+14+14+12
No longer listed·1077712111412
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $579k → $617k.

Funder
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total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of DELAWARE STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION 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.

Where its funders are

DELAWARE STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 1 state in all.

DC

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

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Delaware 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 STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION 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

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

34
board members
88%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Dsea Advocacy Fund for Children and Public Education · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds DELAWARE STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC?
DELAWARE STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC (Delaware) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,379,149 to it, the largest being NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ($5,379,149). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DELAWARE STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,379,149 in grants to DELAWARE STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DELAWARE STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC?
NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES is the largest funder on record, with $5,379,149 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DELAWARE STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION 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 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