GrantmakersDistrict of Columbia

Delta Research & Educational Foundation

Washington, DC · EIN 52-1338072. Reported 69 grants totalling $1,387,728 to 53 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

53organizations funded
$14,000median reported grant
$1,387,728granted, 2020-2023
29%of grantees funded again the next year
13%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Delta Research & Educational Foundation, the IRS classifies it under public & societal benefit rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE W00E) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 53 distinct organizations, with 13% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 29% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $14,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,500 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,040 and the largest $125,873. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

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.
$5,000 - $10,000
24 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
25 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
14 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
5 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
North Carolina Community Foundation IncRaleigh, NC$182,693222023
Dst - San Bernardino-Riverside AcMorena Valley, CA$92,500222022
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncWoodbridge, VA$92,000442023
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncBaltimore, MD$80,361442023
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncRaleigh, NC$79,932222023
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncMinneapolis, MN$59,942112021
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncWashington, DC$57,935112021
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncWashington, DC$50,000112022
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncJacksonville, FL$45,032222022
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncCarmel, IN$44,302112023
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncSan Jose, CA$43,500212023
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncFredericksbrg, VA$41,743332022
Dst - Hayward Tri-City AcHayward, CA$27,068112020
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncSicklerville, NJ$26,369112021
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncSan Antonio, TX$25,000112022
Valia ShoesNorth Atlanta, GA$25,000112021
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncIndian Trail, NC$20,297112023
Dst - Stark County AcCanton, OH$20,000112023
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncSilverspring, MD$19,623222022
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncPhoenix, AZ$19,450112021
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncWinston Salem, NC$19,100112023
Dst - Athens (ga) AcAthens, GA$18,000112023
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncWashington, DC$17,956112020
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncStone Mtn, GA$16,500222023
I Can Fly InternationalLos Angeles, CA$15,382222022
PBS Impact Foundation IncWashington, DC$15,000112023
Dst - Johnston County AcSmithfield, NC$14,279112023
Kenya KeepHenderson, NV$14,259112020
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncNewport News, VA$14,000112022
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncGermantown, TN$12,000112023
Dst - Inland ValleyCorona, CA$11,000112020
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation IncWashington, DC$10,000112021
Dst - Northeast Wisconsin AcGreen Bay, WI$10,000112021
Equity AheadHouston, TX$10,000112021
Go FoundationCollierville, TN$10,000112023
Dst - Ventura County AcOxnard, CA$9,500112021
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncBloomington, IL$9,457112022
Dst - Vallejo AcVallejo, CA$9,322112020
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncSavannah, GA$8,500112023
Dst - Atlanta AcAtlanta, GA$8,500112023
Dst - Macon AcMacon, GA$8,500112023
Dst - Marietta-Roswell AcMarietta, GA$8,500112023
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncFairfield, CA$7,000112020
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncDecatur, GA$6,500112023
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncMcdonough, GA$6,500112023
Dst - Gwinnett County AcLawrenceville, GA$6,500112023
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncWilmington, DE$6,000112023
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncAugusta, GA$6,000112023
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncTampa, FL$5,556112023
Dst - Flint AcFlint, MI$5,500112023
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority IncTemple Hills, MD$5,380112020
Play Internantional LLCLaurel, MD$5,250112023
Loudoun County AcAshburn, VA$5,040112022

10 of 53 (19%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 4 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 5 of 53 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Education
1 org
Arts & Culture
1 org
International Affairs
1 org
Civil Rights
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202012$224,273$14,852
202115$336,832$19,450
202214$315,126$12,050
202328$511,497$11,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

23% of its giving went to organizations in North Carolina. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

North Carolina
$316K
California
$215K
Virginia
$153K
District of Columbia
$151K
Georgia
$119K
Maryland
$111K
Minnesota
$60K
Florida
$51K

Down to the city

Raleigh, NC
$263K
Washington, DC
$151K
Morena Valley, CA
$92K
Woodbridge, VA
$92K
Baltimore, MD
$80K
Minneapolis, MN
$60K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund3 shared recipientsNetwork for Good3 shared recipientsThe Winston-Salem Foundation2 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc2 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America2 shared recipientsGs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund2 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $14,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Carolina.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Delta Research & Educational Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 3 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 25 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 1703 New Hampshire Ave Nw, Washington, DC, 20009.

EIN 52-1338072 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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