WELFARE FOUNDATION, INC.
RECENT GRANTEES
The Welfare Foundation was proud to make grants to the following organizations, among many others, in its December 2025 grant cycle. For a full list of grantees from this cycle and previous cycles, visit Areas of Giving.
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Abundant Life Community Development Corporation to purchase technology to assist with their growing annual health fair.
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Central Delaware Habitat for Humanity to assist with building four new homes in Dover in 2026.
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Child, Inc. to help build an addition on their youth emergency shelter to add more beds and shared areas for children.
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Christina Cultural Arts Center to help with water remediation and renovations in their newly acquired property on Market Street.
​​Delmarva Adult and Teen Challenge to assist with creating a new transition home on their women's campus.
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Food Bank of Delaware to help complete the renovation of their Newark Barn to process and store more produce grown on-site and locally.
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Mosaic to help with repairs and improvements at 8 of their group homes to further assist individuals with I/DD in their care.
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Redemption City to purchase start-up supplies for their newly approved Code Purple shelter for unhoused individuals.
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Rehoboth Beach Public Library to assist with costs to renovate the library's aging infrastructure, as well as create more usable spaces.​
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Sussex Montessori School to install an elevator and provide additional flexible spaces for the school and local nonprofit partners.
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Grant Recipient Spotlight
According to Feeding America, one in six children in DE are food insecure. Also, the most recent Point-in-Time Count saw a 9% increase in homelessness in Delaware from 2023 to 2024. St. Patrick's Center primarily serves zip code 19801 in Wilmington, which has the highest unemployment and food insecurity in the state.
This long-anticipated building renovation project will enable St. Pat's to better fulfill its mission of building community, addressing poverty, and restoring hope by meeting basic needs with respect and dignity. The addition includes new ground-level food storage, a new reception area in the building, lowering elevator access to their basement, new HVAC, and other necessary maintenance to the 130-year-old building located at 107 E. 14th Street.
The completed project will increase the amount of food St. Pat's can collect and distribute, facilitate better access to the showers and clothing closet, maximize physical space to provide case management services, and repair an aging roof and brickwork. In addition, the project will reduce logistical challenges created by their current design, thereby improving operational efficiencies.
While success for this program can be measured in the number of people served and the amount of food distributed, the overarching goal is to connect more households to case management, thereby helping St. Pat's ability to improve outcomes for the people it serves.