Grantmakers

Charities and Community Foundations That Give Grants in Delaware

These 22 organizations are not private foundations. They are charities based in Delaware that give grants to other nonprofits and report them on Form 990 Schedule I -- community foundations, United Ways and federated funds, hospital and university foundations, and operating charities that regrant. Each gave to at least 20 organizations we could identify and filed a return covering 2023 or later.

22grantmaking charities
$10.6Bgranted between them
86,750funding relationships mapped

Ordered by number of organizations funded, not by dollars. Funding more organizations means more turnover in who gets a grant each year, which is a reasonable proxy for how often a list like this one changes -- it is not a signal that any specific grantmaker is open to a new, unsolicited applicant.

OrganizationBased inMedian grantOrganizationsTotal granted
American Online Giving Foundation IncNewark$12,70081,665$10.1B
American Gift FundWilmington$15,0003,100$282.1M
Delaware Community Foundation IncWilmington$21,114754$137.0M
Local Independent Online News Publishers IncWilmington$20,000344$10.1M
American College of BankruptcyDover$10,700100$2.9M
The Sunrise Project IncWilmington$165,00093$34.4M
Jewish Federation of Delaware IncWilmington$13,37385$10.1M
American Public Gardens AssociationWilmington$20,00083$2.4M
International Fresh Produce AssociationNewark$15,00074$3.2M
Christiana Care Health Services IncWilmington$50,00053$4.0M
Delaware Humanities CouncilClaymont$18,00052$1.3M
Local Jobs & Economic Development FundDover$50,00050$10.5M
National Community FoundationWilmington$15,00042$5.4M
Cornerstone West Community Dev CorpWilmington$10,00040$530K
Delaware State UniversityDover$33,68835$16.6M
Bayhealth Medical Center IncDover$10,00032$1.5M
Wrld FoundationWilmington$100,00032$6.1M
Masonic Charities of Delaware IncCamden$10,00028$632K
Spur Impact AssociationWilmington$13,50224$7.9M
Rodel Charitable Foundation - DeWilmington$94,00024$5.5M
Children and Families FirstWilmington$23,09520$1.1M
Wilmington University IncNew Castle$9,24020$451K
Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.

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