Delaware · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE (Delaware) receives grants from 582 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,736,101 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($16,002,682). 377 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- National Multiple Sclerosis Societyshared funders
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared funders
- The V Foundationshared funders
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: 2017 10% · 2018 9% · 2019 9% · 2020 10% · 2021 9% · 2022 9% · 2023 12% · 2024 11% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 139 funders to 248 funders, grant income rose $14M → $27M.
56 of 582 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $115M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Unidel Foundation Inc); $775k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Friends of the University of Delaware Library Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE raised.
From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 582 funders by total. 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
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 8% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
65% 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 UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 11% · 2018 13% · 2019 15% · 2020 12% · 2021 35% · 2022 9% · 2023 10% — broadly stable.
“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
44% of UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 38 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41M arriving through sponsors registered in 24 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 582 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- National Multiple Sclerosis Societyshared fundersNY · backs 98 organizations that share your funders
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 176 organizations that share your funders
- The V Foundationshared fundersNC · backs 80 organizations that share your funders
- Pat Tillman Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 85 organizations that share your funders
- American Diabetes Association Research Foundation Incshared fundersVA · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- Brightfocus Foundationshared fundersMD · backs 98 organizations that share your funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Instituteshared fundersMD · backs 164 organizations that share your funders
- American Federation for Aging Research Incshared fundersNY · backs 84 organizations that share your funders
- American Lung Associationshared fundersIL · backs 99 organizations that share your funders
- Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 88 organizations that share your funders
- Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Incshared fundersIL · backs 137 organizations that share your funders
- The Broad Institute Incshared fundersMA · backs 81 organizations that share your funders
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 UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0B on record — $1.9B federal, $1.1B state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$491.6M
- National Science Foundation$376.0M
- Department of Commerce$362.6M
- Department of Defense$201.0M
- Department of Energy$112.8M
- Department of Education$105.3M
- DE$1.1B
- NJ$365k
- OK$144k
- OR$41k
- MA$3k
- FL$63
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 UNIVERSITY OF 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.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 13 states
Part of a family of 14 related entities
- Blue Hen Hotel LLC · disregarded
- 1743 Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Ud Health LLC · disregarded
- University of Delaware Alumni Assoc Inc · exempt
- University of Delaware Research Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY OF 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 UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE?
- UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE (Delaware) receives grants from 582 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,736,101 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($16,002,682). 377 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE have?
- IRS filings report 582 organizations giving $204,736,101 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE, 377 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16,002,682 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 582funders 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