Delaware · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC
FRIENDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC (Delaware) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $48 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($48). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $114k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $48
- Net assets
- $20k
What Friends of Sussex County Inc does
Mission
To assist in the improvement and enhancement of youth, families, individuals and communities which are socially and economically disadvantaged through customized training, emergency assistance, development of positive youth activities and information sharing to promote self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Yeet youth education [:amp:] employment training - this program serves atrisk and lowincome youth and young adults ages 1624 by providing support designed to remove barriers and expand opportunity. Yeet offers academic assistance organized sports and enrichment activities that promote positive engagement and structured jobtraining experiences that prepare participants for longterm success in the workforce. Through a combination of mentorship skillbuilding and supportive services the program helps young people strengthen their educational outcomes develop healthy social connections and transition toward stable employment and selfsufficiency.
$41,453 spent52% of program spendingHousing assistance this program helps individuals and families stay safely housed during times of job loss or financial hardship by providing shortterm support with rent or mortgage payments.
$37,629 spent48% of program spendingDaily living assistance this program offers shortterm support to individuals and families facing unexpected or difficult moments. It helps cover essential living needs such as daycare funeral expenses food and other basic necessities ensuring individuals and families are not left to navigate hardship alone.
$7,485 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $79,082. The per-program figures do not add up to the total the return states; both are shown as filed.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $4k to $19k (+434%).
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.
100% of FRIENDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $22 → $16.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FRIENDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY 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
100% of FRIENDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC?
- FRIENDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC (Delaware) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $48 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($48). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $48 in grants to FRIENDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $48 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY 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 2020–2025), 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