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FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION F/K/A EASTSIDE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER

FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION F/K/A EASTSIDE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER (Delaware) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,084,000 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($800,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year. FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION F/K/A EASTSIDE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

$2.7M
Revenue FY2025
11
Funders on record
$2.1M
Grants received
$16M
Net assets
6/11 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION F/K/A EASTSIDE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programFIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION F/K/A EASTSIDE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$8.7M

Recipients

3

Contributions on record

$2.1M

Donors on record

11

Payments out run 4.2x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($770k) Expenses 100 ($860k) Net assets 100 ($4.4M)2018 Revenue 109 ($837k) Expenses 108 ($926k) Net assets 94 ($4.2M)2019 Revenue 64 ($496k) Expenses 111 ($957k) Net assets 84 ($3.7M)2020 Revenue 58 ($449k) Expenses 79 ($680k) Net assets 77 ($3.4M)2021 Revenue 62 ($479k) Expenses 74 ($633k) Net assets 78 ($3.4M)2022 Revenue 924 ($7.1M) Expenses 93 ($802k) Net assets 215 ($9.6M)2023 Revenue 779 ($6.0M) Expenses 129 ($1.1M) Net assets 327 ($15M)2024 Revenue 553 ($4.3M) Expenses 296 ($2.5M) Net assets 371 ($16M)2025 Revenue 353 ($2.7M) Expenses 448 ($3.9M) Net assets 351 ($16M)
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Revenue (353)Expenses (448)Net assets (351)

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: 2024 79% · 2025 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$90k
17
$89k
18
$461k
19
$231k
20
$154k
21
$6.3M
22
$4.9M
23
$1.7M
24
$1.1M
25
0.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $172k.

2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)6% 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 FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION F/K/A EASTSIDE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER’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 FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION F/K/A EASTSIDE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER's grant income comes from Delaware funders.

PA
DE

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

18
19
20
22
23
Delaware out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $126k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 11 funders put you under-funded 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 FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION F/K/A EASTSIDE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record.

Federal$3.0M
grants $3.0Mcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.0M

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.

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

19
board members
95%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • East Side Charter School · exempt
  • Eastside STEM Hub Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION F/K/A EASTSIDE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: 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 FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION F/K/A EASTSIDE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER?
FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION F/K/A EASTSIDE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER (Delaware) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,084,000 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($800,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year. FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION F/K/A EASTSIDE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION F/K/A EASTSIDE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,084,000 in grants to FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION F/K/A EASTSIDE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION F/K/A EASTSIDE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER?
LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION F/K/A EASTSIDE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER 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 11funders 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