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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $157k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $95k
- Net assets
- $52k
What Plastic Free Delaware does
Mission
In order to improve the health and welfare of animals, humans, our communities and our environment, Plastic Free Delaware aims to eliminate the scourge of plastic pollution and build a culture of zero waste in delaware through educational programs, awareness building, and policy initiatives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Delaware community composting initiative (dcci) - the dcci program guides organizations through the process of establishing a community composting site. The program assists organizations throughout the dnrec permitting process, training volunteers, and throughout the first year of turning food scraps into soil. Dcci also educates students throughout delaware on the local food system, reducing wasted food, and composting.
$51,429 spent31% of program spendingYes! The delaware youth environmental summit - yes! Is a statewide confab for all delaware high school students interested in protecting our earth, from home schoolers, to all public, parochial and independent schools in delaware. The inaugural yes! Was held in 2020 in dover. The sixth annual event was held in 2025. Yes! Is a wide collaborative partnership of delaware nonprofit organizations, educators, agencies, businesses, and students who want to make a difference by engaging delaware's youth in issues and advocacy on environmental issues.
$108,035 spent65% of program spendingSchool programs - the organization makes visits to various schools to discuss the topic of plastic pollution and also provides teachers with related resources to utilize in the classroom.
$6,635 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $166,099.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $100k to $52k (−48%).
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.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Dee Durham
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 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
PLASTIC FREE DELAWARE has grown faster than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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
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
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.
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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.
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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 2023–2025), and the filings of 6 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