Delaware · Nonprofit
PETE DU PONT FREEDOM FOUNDATION LLC
PETE DU PONT FREEDOM FOUNDATION LLC (Delaware) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,351,760 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($826,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $884k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $932k
What Pete Du Pont Freedom Foundation LLC does
Mission
The pete du pont freedom foundation promotes our country's spirit of private enterprise by fostering access to the marketplace for every entrepreneur and their ideas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Stepping stones community federal credit union partnership: using restricted grant funding received for this purpose, the foundation supports stepping stones community federal credit union ("sscfcu") as it integrates financial technology providers intended to expand the digital financial tools and resources available to its members. The foundation provides funding and project support for the integration, while sscfcu remains responsible for operating the credit union and delivering financial services to its members.
$325,098 spentof which $66,000 as grants36% of program spendingThe equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem (e3) supports small business owners and entrepreneurs, with a particular focus on those who have historically faced barriers to business resources and opportunities. Through membership, individualized business assessments, strategic guidance, technical assistance, and connections to professional service providers, the foundation helps entrepreneurs identify priorities, address operational challenges, and access to expertise and resources needed to grow their businesses. During 2025, the foundation also provided direct support for member services, including financial management, marketing, strategic planning, and other business-building needs.
$270,766 spent30% of program spendingSupported by a grant from longwood foundation, the foundation invested in the organizational capacity needed to strengthen and expand its entrepreneurship programs. Activities included staffing and professional support, strategic planning, marketing and communications, program development, and improvements to the foundation's internal systems and operations. These investments were intended to build a stronger and more sustainable infrastructure for delivering, evaluating, and scaling the foundation's work.
$130,521 spent15% of program spendingThe reinventing delaware program serves as an entrepreneurial incubatorby providing a platform for individuals to present ideas that willcreate jobs and improve delaware. The public, the foundation's membersand supporters and the business community are encouraged to submitideas for consideration.
$108,431 spent12% of program spendingThe pete du pont freedom award is presented annually to an individual or organization who has championed a successful idea which has led to economic growth or brought innovation to the private sector.
$24,069 spent$3,648 earned by the program3% of program spendingHbcu innovative solutions initiative - the foundation partnered withthe bank of america and delaware state university to integrate theirreinventing program and process into the 13th annual philanthropysymposium, which hosts over 30 hbcu representatives from across thecountry. A $100,000 grant was received in 2022 to launch theinitiative in july 2023. A committee held a meeting to review all ofthe idea proposals submitted for the initiative and selected nine tomove forward to the first phase of the process to receive in-kindconsulting support valued at up to $5,000 per proposal. The committeereconvenes to select four finalists who will receive an additionalsuite of in-kind support valued at up to $20,000 each. Finally thecommittee will select one winner to receive a $10,000 cash grant tocontinue to move the idea forward. The winner will be announced at the14th annual philanthropy symposium.
$37,750 spent4% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $896,635.
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.
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 $617k to $1.4M (+133%).
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: 2020 6% · 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Stephanie Johnnie
Executive director
Board chair
There Du Pont
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $25k → $10k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 PETE DU PONT FREEDOM FOUNDATION LLC’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
PETE DU PONT FREEDOM FOUNDATION LLC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 73% · 2021 79% · 2022 77% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 PETE DU PONT FREEDOM FOUNDATION LLC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
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
73% of PETE DU PONT FREEDOM FOUNDATION LLC's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $137k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Government funding PETE DU PONT FREEDOM FOUNDATION LLC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $398k on record.
- CONSULTANTS$398k
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 PETE DU PONT FREEDOM FOUNDATION LLC
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.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
44%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PETE DU PONT FREEDOM FOUNDATION LLC?
- PETE DU PONT FREEDOM FOUNDATION LLC (Delaware) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,351,760 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($826,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PETE DU PONT FREEDOM FOUNDATION LLC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,351,760 in grants to PETE DU PONT FREEDOM FOUNDATION LLC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PETE DU PONT FREEDOM FOUNDATION LLC?
- LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $826,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PETE DU PONT FREEDOM FOUNDATION LLC 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 10 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