Delaware Community Foundation



The Delaware Community Foundation manages charitable funds for individuals, families, businesses and organizations, and distributes income from the funds as grants to humanitarian, educational, health and cultural entities throughout the First State.

With nearly 900 funds, more than $230 million in assets and annual grants of over $15 million, the Foundation provides a lasting source of charitable funding to benefit Delawareans now and for generations to come. For more than 20 years, the Foundation has been connecting people who care with causes they care about, helping to make Delaware a better place to live.

Assets and Giving for Delaware Community Foundation

Assets

2019 - 260,631,720
2018 - 251,174,065
Domestic Grants

2019 - 13,135,252


    

Recent News from Delaware Community Foundation


Delaware Community Foundation names DiPaolo vice president for Southern Delaware
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

The Delaware Community Foundation welcomed Michael DiPaolo as vice president for southern Delaware. As part of the DCF's philanthropy...more

DCF Youth Philanthropy Boards award $50K in grants statewide
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

DCF Youth Philanthropy Boards award $50K in grants statewide .... wanted to encourage youth to become more involved in philanthropic...more

VIDEO | Benefit in honor of Corporal Stephen Ballard helps community
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

"It's a fund I created two years ago with the Delaware Community Foundation, and we give a grant each year to a non-profit that fulfills...more

Giving back: Rollins School of Nursing, Highmark, Community Foundation, High 5 Hospitality
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

$1.1 million gift to School of Nursing for faculty development. Beebe Healthcare, Lewes, announced a gift of $1.1 million from the Ma-Ran...more

Potter Trust Grants available through CenDel Foundation
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

Nonprofit organizations supporting the needy in Kent County are encouraged to apply for grants from the Potter Trust Grants Fund at the...more

Potter Trust Grants available through CenDel Foundation
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

... are encouraged to apply for grants from the Potter Trust Grants Fund at the CenDel Foundation, a fund of the Delaware Community...more

Giving back: Christiana Care, Wells Fargo, Highmark, UDance, Community Foundation
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

(Send news of contributions and community activities to drainey@delawarebusinessnow.com. Christiana Care announces $1 million gift to...more

Nonprofits Face $12000 Each In UBIT Without Law Change
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

Stuart Comstock-Gay, president and CEO of the Delaware Community Foundation, who participated in a panel at the briefing, said that he had...more

Opinion: Early childhood education is the smartest investment we can make in Delaware kids
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

Stuart Comstock-Gay is president and CEO of the Delaware Community Foundation. Lynn Adams Kokjohn is chair of the Fund for Women at the...more

Arsht-Cannon: Funding Latino causes
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

The fund, managed by the Delaware Community Foundation, was created through the vision of two prominent figures in the state's legal...more



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