Delaware · Nonprofit
THE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION
THE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION (Delaware) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,305,539 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($1,000,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year. THE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
THE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programTHE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$5.1M
Recipients
16
Contributions on record
$2.3M
Donors on record
28
Payments out run 2.2x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
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 funderslocal
- The S L Hickman Family Foundationportfolio match
- Red Wagon Calagione Family Foundation F/K/A Beer & Benevolence Foundationportfolio 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.
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: 2022 49% · 2023 12% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $53k → $169k.
11 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 THE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION’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
88% of THE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $878k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
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 28 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Laffey-McHugh Foundationshared funderslocalDE · backs 137 organizations that share your funders · funds 179 organizations near you
- The S L Hickman Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Red Wagon Calagione Family Foundation F/K/A Beer & Benevolence Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lenawee Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Chief Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundatiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Grand Island Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary B Nickell Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Penn Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Olson Tom & Cynthia Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Greater Greenbrier Valleyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Incyte Charitable Giving Foundationshared funderslocalDE · backs 54 organizations that share your funders · funds 69 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 THE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record — $298k federal, $1.6M state.
- Department of Agriculture$298k
- GRANTS IN AID$1.0M
- GRANTS$570k
- CASEWORK SERVICES$10k
- ADVERTISING$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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% 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 THE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION: 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 THE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION?
- THE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION (Delaware) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,305,539 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($1,000,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year. THE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does THE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $2,305,539 in grants to THE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION?
- LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28funders 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