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DFRC INC

DFRC INC (Delaware) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $230,873 to it, the largest being CARPENTER FOUNDATION INC ($80,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$672k
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$231k
Net assets
$1.6M
10/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Dfrc Inc does

Mission

The mission of dfrc is to enrich the lives of delawareans with intellectual disabilities. Dfrc is a well-respected foundation dedicated to raising funds and consciousness through quality events to support enrichment programs so that all delawareans with intellectual disabilities maximize their potential, independence, and enjoyment of life.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Grants to delaware nonprofit agencies who provide enrichment programs that allow people with intellectual disabilities to maximize their potential, independence, and enjoyment of life.

    $84,724 spentof which $84,724 as grants
    15% of program spending
  2. The dfrc blue-gold all star football game is a six month program matching delaware high school students, all volunteers, with children with intellectual disabilities to promote awareness and understanding with their peer groups and fellow students in their schools.

    $154,402 spent$103,492 earned by the program
    27% of program spending
  3. Dfrc conducts two regional golf outings and numerous other events to increase the general public's awareness of the issues and challenges faced by children with intellectual disabilities within the state of delaware.

    $324,648 spent$56,252 earned by the program
    58% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $563,774.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($570k) Expenses 100 ($774k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 92 ($524k) Expenses 88 ($678k) Net assets 93 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 89 ($506k) Expenses 85 ($654k) Net assets 106 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 63 ($357k) Expenses 64 ($498k) Net assets 108 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 81 ($462k) Expenses 69 ($531k) Net assets 119 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 94 ($537k) Expenses 73 ($567k) Net assets 111 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 88 ($499k) Expenses 84 ($646k) Net assets 120 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 118 ($672k) Expenses 96 ($741k) Net assets 129 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (118)Expenses (96)Net assets (129)Peer revenue range

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 $1.1M to $1.3M (+13%).

$1.2M
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.6M
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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 4% · 2018 5% · 2019 5% · 2020 15% · 2021 15% · 2022 6% · 2023 7% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

57% of DFRC INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

−$203k
’17
−$154k
’18
−$148k
’19
−$141k
’20
−$70k
’21
−$29k
’22
−$147k
’23
−$69k
’24
3.6
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

Marie Vacca

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed1617151616181615
Joined·+2+2+1+1+4+1+1
No longer listed·1401232
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $1k → $30k.

5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 DFRC 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.

How concentrated its funding is

DFRC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

34% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DFRC INC.

35%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 87% · 2019 89% · 2020 54% · 2021 40% · 2022 45% · 2023 39% — 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

57% of DFRC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

75% of DFRC INC's grant income comes from Delaware funders.

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RI
NE
DE
AZ
NC

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. $79k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Against its field

DFRC INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding DFRC INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $178k on record.

State$178k
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Top programs
  • GRANTS IN AID$177k
  • ADVERTISING$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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 19%Fundraising 5%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

94%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds DFRC INC?
DFRC INC (Delaware) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $230,873 to it, the largest being CARPENTER FOUNDATION INC ($80,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DFRC INC have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $230,873 in grants to DFRC INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DFRC INC?
CARPENTER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DFRC 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.

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 14 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing