Delaware · Nonprofit
PLASTIC FREE DELAWARE
PLASTIC FREE DELAWARE (Delaware) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,305 to it, the largest being ENVIRONMENTAL ENDOWMENT FOR NEW JERSEY INC ($34,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PLASTIC FREE DELAWARE has grown faster than half of the 2,156 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,156 environment 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.
- Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Longwood Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Welfare Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
100% of PLASTIC FREE DELAWARE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $13 → $31k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 PLASTIC FREE DELAWARE’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
PLASTIC FREE DELAWARE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 64% — 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
53% of PLASTIC FREE DELAWARE's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $305 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
- Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchDE · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · funds 39 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Longwood Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchDE · backs 184 organizations that share your funders · funds 309 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Welfare Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchDE · backs 142 organizations that share your funders · funds 135 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Kenny Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchDE · funds 22 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Wilmington University Inclocalportfolio matchDE · funds 24 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Incyte Charitable Giving Foundationshared funderslocalDE · backs 61 organizations that share your funders · funds 66 organizations near you
- The Recycling Partnership Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bayhealth Medical Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Draper Holdings Charitable Foundation Iportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Beverage Foundation for a Healthy Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chichester Dupont Foundation Incshared funderslocalDE · backs 78 organizations that share your funders · funds 73 organizations near you
- Delaware Community Foundation Incshared funderslocalDE · backs 240 organizations that share your funders · funds 388 organizations near you
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 PLASTIC FREE DELAWARE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $129k on record.
- GRANTS IN AID$65k
- OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE$56k
- ASSOC DUES AND CONF FEES$6k
- GRANTS$2k
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 PLASTIC FREE DELAWARE
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.
Public support
94%
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 PLASTIC FREE DELAWARE: 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 PLASTIC FREE DELAWARE?
- PLASTIC FREE DELAWARE (Delaware) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,305 to it, the largest being ENVIRONMENTAL ENDOWMENT FOR NEW JERSEY INC ($34,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PLASTIC FREE DELAWARE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $95,305 in grants to PLASTIC FREE DELAWARE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PLASTIC FREE DELAWARE?
- ENVIRONMENTAL ENDOWMENT FOR NEW JERSEY INC is the largest funder on record, with $34,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PLASTIC FREE DELAWARE 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 2023–2025), 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