Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Wilmington, Delaware

2,343
foundations with a Wilmington address
$1.93B
grants paid, FY2022–FY2025
118
say they accept unsolicited
$10,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 2,343 foundations that gave a Wilmington, Delaware address on their tax filing — 2,331 private foundations and 12 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2022–FY2025. Together they paid out $1.93 billion in grants in their latest filing year, and 118 of them (5%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Wilmington foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 2,343 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 93 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in Wilmington, Delaware
Longwood Foundation Inc$250,000$40.8M$10,000–$8MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The McMurry Foundation$10,000$18.8M$150–$9MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Wasily Family Foundation Inc$9.3M$9.8M$8.8M–$9.8MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Smilow Foundation$11,250$7.4M$800–$3MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Robert and Dana Emery Family Foundation$25,000$7.2M$5,000–$1.3MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Moccasin Lake Foundation$10,000$6.9M$500–$750,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Raskob Foundation for Catholic$18,000$6.2M$250–$100,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Wmr Family Foundation 045351-000$5,000$5.7M$500–$2.7MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Stephen & Mary Birch Foundation Inc$10,000$5.4M$1,000–$750,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Welfare Foundation Inc$50,000$4.7M$10,000–$300,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
David G Burton Successor Trustee UA D$2,750$4.7M$1,000–$2.4MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Webster Bank Charitable Foundation$5,000$4.5M$50–$346,732FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Laffey-McHugh Foundation$20,000$3.7M$2,500–$150,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The VF Foundation$32,500$3.4M$5,000–$380,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation$7,000$3.3M$400–$156,250FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Illumina Corporate Foundation$15,000$3M$2,500–$881,989FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Robinson Foundation$12,500$2.8M$1,830–$1MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Wsfs Cares Foundation$5,000$2.7M$1,000–$100,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc$50,000$2.2M$10,000–$750,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc$20,000$2.1M$5,000–$626,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation$40,000$2.1M$1,500–$127,980FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Wendy P McCaw Foundation the Goldman Sachs$25,000$2M$10,000–$900,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Charles R Wood Foundation$5,000$2M$500–$500,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation AKA$4,500$1.9M$74–$250,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Barr-Campbell Family Foundation Inc$25,000$1.9M$5,000–$1.7MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.

2,318 more foundations — see all in Grantlas

Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2022–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.