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


As donations run dry, closure looms for some Delaware nonprofits. What about their clients?
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

The survey found that despite assistance from the philanthropic community and funds from the federal government, ... Delaware Community Foundation, Philanthropy Delaware and United Way of Delaware,...more

Delaware COVID-19 Strategic Response Fund awards $194K to nonprofits
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

21 awarded $194,500 to 12 nonprofit organizations providing services to ... Friendship House Inc. $25,000 to provide food and case management...more

Personnel file: Inteliquent, NAMI, Nanticoke, Sen Coons' office; Community Foundation
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

The Delaware Community Foundation (DCF) welcomed Mashiya Williams as a health portfolio program associate. As part of the DCF's...more

Delaware COVID-19 Strategic Response Fund awards $194K to nonprofits
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

The Delaware COVID-19 Strategic Response Fund at the Delaware Community Foundation on Aug. 21 awarded $194,500 to 12...more

Jazz trio 5th Avenue to perform at Bluecoast Aug. 21
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

A scholarship fund was established in Cicerale's name after his death last summer, and is maintained by the Delaware Community...more

Nonprofits Struggle, Continue to Provide Needed Services As Pandemic Continues
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

"We have the COVID-19 response initiative with the united way of Delaware, the Delaware Community Foundation, Philanthropy Delaware and...more

Nonprofits still need critical funding as COVID pandemic continues
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

Delaware's philanthropic community continues to help First State nonprofits affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Listen. Listening......more

Rosemary C. "Dusty" Betts
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

... Catholic Church, Seaford, Delaware or the Susan J. Betts Charitable Trust in care of the Delaware Community Foundation, Georgetown,...more

Delaware nonprofits invited to apply for grants
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

Rather, they are intended to support nonprofit sectors through organizations that are sustainable with strong leadership, management and...more

$210426 awarded from Delaware COVID-19 Strategic Response Fund to 11 nonprofits
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

And philanthropy is not going to be able to do the bulk of the work; that's why the CARES Act money that the State's got is going to be so...more



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