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DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC

DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC (Delaware) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $740,974 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($173,167). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$720k
Revenue FY2025
26
Funders on record
$741k
Grants received
$786k
Net assets
15/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%

Against its field

DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,881 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−19% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,881 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($145k) Expenses 100 ($130k) Net assets 100 ($573k)2018 Revenue 104 ($151k) Expenses 128 ($165k) Net assets 97 ($558k)2019 Revenue 148 ($214k) Expenses 129 ($168k) Net assets 105 ($604k)2020 Revenue 118 ($170k) Expenses 157 ($203k) Net assets 100 ($571k)2021 Revenue 186 ($270k) Expenses 194 ($251k) Net assets 103 ($590k)2022 Revenue 335 ($485k) Expenses 431 ($560k) Net assets 90 ($515k)2023 Revenue 357 ($517k) Expenses 437 ($567k) Net assets 81 ($463k)2024 Revenue 822 ($1.2M) Expenses 564 ($731k) Net assets 161 ($922k)2025 Revenue 497 ($720k) Expenses 660 ($856k) Net assets 137 ($786k)
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Revenue (497)Expenses (660)Net assets (137)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 24% · 2018 19% · 2019 26% · 2020 37% · 2021 23% · 2022 10% · 2023 15% · 2024 47% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

89% of DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,844 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$15k
17
$15k
18
$46k
19
$33k
20
$19k
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$75k
22
$50k
23
$459k
24
$136k
25
1.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $11k → $225k.

5 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)37% 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 DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE 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

DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

48% 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 DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC.

23%
largest funder
45%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 67% · 2019 61% · 2020 74% · 2021 27% · 2022 35% · 2023 29%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

60% of DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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

86% of DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC's grant income comes from Delaware funders.

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FL

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. $275k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 26 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $865 on record.

State$865
Top programs
  • CLOTHING & LINENS$865

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.

Organizations like DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Delaware

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 17%Fundraising 14%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC?
DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC (Delaware) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $740,974 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($173,167). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $740,974 in grants to DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC?
DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $173,167 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 26funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing