Delaware State University
Dover, DE · EIN 51-0305893. Reported 51 grants totalling $15.3M to 30 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Delaware State University, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B430) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 30 distinct organizations, with 50% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 60% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $33,727. Half of what it reported fell between $14,666 and $101,537; the smallest was $5,200 and the largest $7,500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware State University Foundation Inc | Dover, DE | $7,585,602 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Delaware | Newark, DE | $4,678,647 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $1,273,419 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Wilmington University Inc | New Castle, DE | $274,659 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Massachusetts | Lowell, MA | $268,941 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| State of Maryland | Bowie, MD | $210,130 | 4 | 3 | 2022 |
| Trustees of Tufts College | Medford, MA | $133,717 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff | Pine Bluff, AR | $129,546 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Pennsylvania State University | State College, PA | $90,591 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Louisian State University A&m College | Baton Rouge, LA | $72,271 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Alabama State University | Montgomery, AL | $57,105 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lincoln University | Lincoln Univ, PA | $55,300 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Potomac College LLC Dba University of the Potomac | Washington, DC | $50,329 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tennessee State University | Nashville, TN | $43,055 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Virginia State University | Petersburg, VA | $41,060 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Virginia Polytech Inst | Blackburg, VA | $40,930 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| State of West Virginia | Morgantown, WV | $39,970 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Delaware Technical & Community College | Wilmington, DE | $33,727 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Claflin University | Orangeburg, SC | $29,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Alabama A&m University | Normal, AL | $27,328 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Wisconsin | Madison, WI | $27,176 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Tuskegee University | Tuskegee Institute, AL | $21,726 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Central State University | Wilberforce, OH | $20,792 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Maryland College Park Foundation Inc | College Park, MD | $19,804 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Langston University | Langston, OK | $14,856 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Springfield College | Springfield, MA | $13,826 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alcorn State University | Alcorn State, MS | $13,704 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Southern University | Baton Rouge, LA | $13,256 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Auburn University | Auburn University, AL | $10,657 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Indiana University | Detroit, MI | $5,200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
15 of 30 (50%) 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.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 10 of 30 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 7 | $8,303,343 | $115,804 |
| 2021 | 5 | $1,948,540 | $80,853 |
| 2022 | 18 | $1,720,872 | $23,148 |
| 2023 | 21 | $3,324,169 | $33,727 |
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
82% of its giving went to organizations in Delaware. 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.
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $33,727 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Delaware.
- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Delaware State University'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 21 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 1200 North Dupont Highway, Dover, DE, 19901.
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