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


New Kent, Sussex County Youth Philanthropy Boards selected
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

Thirty-nine Kent and Sussex County high school seniors and juniors will experience the triumphs and challenges of being philanthropists this...more

Philanthropy: Fundraising Professionals awards, Community Foundation managing Brandywine ...
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

The Association of Fundraising Professionals is a professional association of individuals and organizations that generate philanthropic support for...more

Brandywine Creek Woodlawn Fund created at Delaware Community Foundation
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

A private trust fund established by the Woodlawn Trustees nearly 40 years ago to benefit Brandywine Creek State Park in Wilmington is now...more

Caesar Rodney grads awarded John A. & Marion B. Smitheman Scholarship
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

... Rocky Li and Evan McCleary both received a $20,000 John A. & Marion B. Smitheman Scholarship from the Delaware Community...more

Caesar Rodney High School Friends Awarded $20K Scholarships
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

... surprised to learn that they both received a $20,000 John A. Marion B. Smitheman Scholarship from the Delaware Community Foundation this...more

Judge Gregory M. Sleet joins community foundation board
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

The Delaware Community Foundation welcomes Judge Gregory M. Sleet as a new member of its board of directors, filling a newly vacant...more

Personnel file: SoDel, Community Foundation, Rehoboth Main Street, Wohlsen, Karins
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

Scott Kammerer, president of SoDel Concepts, Rehoboth Beach, announced that Stevie Wishner is the new general manager at Papa...more

Sussex Technical School District awarded grant to offer Spanish-English GED classes
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

The $24,850 grant from the Delaware Community Foundation's Focus Grant program will provide support to launch the initiative in September....more

CenDel Foundation announces $24K in grants supporting the arts in Kent County
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

The Kent County Fund for the Arts, a fund administered by CenDel with the help of the Delaware Community Foundation, distributed grants to...more

Delaware Latino communities benefit from Arsht-Cannon Fund grants
Foundation: Delaware Community Foundation

The Arsht-Cannon Fund (ACF) has awarded another round of grants aimed at improving access to quality educational programs and services...more



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