Delaware · Nonprofit
HISTORIC LEWES FARMERS MARKET SOCIETY INC
HISTORIC LEWES FARMERS MARKET SOCIETY INC (Delaware) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,964 to it, the largest being THE CARL M FREEMAN FOUNDATION INC ($13,860). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HISTORIC LEWES FARMERS MARKET SOCIETY INC has grown faster than half of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education 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.
- Laffey-McHugh Foundationshared funders
- Oregon Farmers Markets Associationportfolio match
- Farmers Market Fundportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 5% · 2023 59% · 2024 54% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of HISTORIC LEWES FARMERS MARKET SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $47 → $7k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 HISTORIC LEWES FARMERS MARKET SOCIETY 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
HISTORIC LEWES FARMERS MARKET SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 HISTORIC LEWES FARMERS MARKET SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 60% · 2022 79% · 2023 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
HISTORIC LEWES FARMERS MARKET SOCIETY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Laffey-McHugh Foundationshared fundersDE · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- Oregon Farmers Markets Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Farmers Market Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fair Food Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feeding Pennsylvaniaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ecology Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wholesome Wave Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Americas Grow-A-Rowportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hunger Related Eventsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- UNFI Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carolina Farm Stewardship Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Diabetes Prevention and Aid Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 HISTORIC LEWES FARMERS MARKET SOCIETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record — $21k federal, $996k state.
- Department of Agriculture$21k
- FED GRANT SUB RECIPIENT$992k
- FREIGHT$5k
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 HISTORIC LEWES FARMERS MARKET SOCIETY 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 HISTORIC LEWES FARMERS MARKET SOCIETY 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.
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 HISTORIC LEWES FARMERS MARKET SOCIETY INC?
- HISTORIC LEWES FARMERS MARKET SOCIETY INC (Delaware) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,964 to it, the largest being THE CARL M FREEMAN FOUNDATION INC ($13,860). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HISTORIC LEWES FARMERS MARKET SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $27,964 in grants to HISTORIC LEWES FARMERS MARKET SOCIETY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC LEWES FARMERS MARKET SOCIETY INC?
- THE CARL M FREEMAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $13,860 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORIC LEWES FARMERS MARKET SOCIETY 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 6funders 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