Laffey-Mchugh Foundation
Historical FunderWilmington, Delaware · EIN 51-6015095 · Private foundation
Grants paid (2024)$3.7M
Organizations funded153
Typical grant$20,000
Total assets$66.1M
Half of its grants to organizations were between $10,000 and $30,000.
From the return
How to apply
The foundation filed the following application information (Form 990-PF Part XV, tax year 2024):
| Contact | LAFFEY-MCHUGH FOUNDATION |
|---|---|
| Address | 100 WEST 10TH STREET SUITE 815, WILMINGTON DE 19801 |
| Phone | 3026541680 |
| KYLE@LAFFEYMCHUGH.ORG | |
| Form and materials | GRANT APPLICATIONS ARE ACCEPTED FOR TWO FUNDING CYCLES. REQUESTS FOR THE SPRING FUNDING CYCLE MUST BE SUBMITTED BY APRIL 1. REQUESTS FOR THE FALL CYCLE MUST BE SUBMITTED BY OCTOBER 1. ORGANIZATIONS CAN REQUEST AN APPLICATION VIA THE FOUNDATION'S WEBSITE: LAFFEYMCHUGH.ORG. IF THE APPLICANT IS ELIGIBLE TO APPLY, AN EMAIL IS SENT TO THE DOCUMENTED CONTACT WITH A LINK TO THE ELECTRONIC APPLICATION. THE FOUNDATION DOES NOT ACCEPT PAPER-BASED APPLICATIONS OR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE NOT SUBMITTED THROUGH ITS APPLICATION PORTAL. ALL APPLICANTS MUST BE A 501(C)(3) PUBLIC CHARITY IN GOOD STANDING WITH THE IRS. |
| Deadlines | PART 1: BY 12PM EST ON APRIL 1ST OR OCTOBER 1ST PART 2: BY 11:59PM EST ON APRIL 1ST OR OCTOBER 1ST |
| Restrictions | NONE |
Copied as filed. Deadlines on a tax return describe the foundation's usual process; they are not confirmation of a current open cycle.
What it funds
Share of grant lines on the latest return, classified from the purpose each grant states.
Where it gives
15% of grants went outside Delaware.
Grants paid in tax year 2024
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ministry of Caring Inc | Wilmington, DE | To support the renovation and relocation of the emmanuel dining room east to a new permanent location to serve nutritious meals to families… | $150,000 |
| Food Bank of Delaware | Newark, DE | To support the food bank of delaware's expanded head start backpack program. | $100,000 |
| Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | To prospectively investigate advanced ultrasound imaging markers of acute kidney injury (aki) in 24 pilot subjects (0-19 years old) with… | $75,000 |
| Kind to Kids Foundation | Newark, DE | To improve academic outcomes for delaware students in foster care who are victims of abuse, neglect and trauma through kind to kids… | $75,000 |
| Ministry of Caring Inc | Wilmington, DE | To support renovations to samaritan housing, a short term emergency shelter for single women and women with children. | $75,000 |
| Teensharp | Wilmington, DE | To support enhancements to the technology infrastructure supporting the delaware goes to college academy offered to high school students… | $75,000 |
| YMCA of Delaware | Wilmington, DE | For its new thrive out-of-school program providing tutoring, sel, and life skills activities for teens, and extending social-emotional… | $75,000 |
| Friendship House | Wilmington, DE | In general operating funds to respond to client needs through its transitional housing program, empowerment centers and the clothing bank. | $65,000 |
| Delaware College Scholars | Wilmington, DE | To support the launch of programming for 9th and 10th grade students for its residential college-preparation program that helps overcome… | $60,000 |
| Combined Campaign for Justice | Wilmington, DE | In general operating support for delawares three legal aid agencies. | $50,000 |
| Leading Youth Through Empowerment Inc | Wilmington, DE | For academic support for underserved middle school and high school students to prepare them for the next steps in high school, college, and… | $50,000 |
| Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League | Wilmington, DE | In general operational funds to support its programming in the community. | $50,000 |
| Partners for Justice | New York, NY | To support its client advocate program, an innovative public defense program in partnership with the office of defense services providing… | $50,000 |
| Reading Assist | Wilmington, DE | To provide a tutor/teacher training and certification program currently being piloted at LA academia antonio alonso charter school in… | $50,000 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | To support a research project investigating how genetic mutations, particularly brca1/2, influence lymphoma patients responses to… | $50,000 |
| Urbanpromise Wilmington | Wilmington, DE | For its promise of yes capital campaign to repair properties embedded in under-resourced areas of wilmington in which urbanpromise staff… | $50,000 |
| Four Youth | Wilmington, DE | To enable underserved high school students to explore delaware's natural and historical sites, documenting their experience via videography… | $45,000 |
| St Patrick's Center | Wilmington, DE | For its emergency food distribution program. | $40,000 |
| Sunday Breakfast Mission | Wilmington, DE | To support homeless and impoverished individuals and families through nutritious meals, clothing, emergency shelter, food boxes, and… | $40,000 |
| The Harambee Fund at the Delaware Community Foundation | Wilmington, DE | To support the next cohort of harambee delaware emerging leaders of color and support the launch of the delaware dozen accelerator to work… | $40,000 |
| Wilmington Hope Commission | Wilmington, DE | In general operations support for its expansion of initiatives in dover that aim to reduce recidivism. | $40,000 |
| Healthy Foods for Healthy Kids Inc | Hockessin, DE | To support hiring a third program coordinator to meet growing demand for hands-on, outdoor, STEM education services related to its… | $35,000 |
| Nativity Preparatory School of Wilmington | Wilmington, DE | For general operating expenses supporting its tuition-free, high-quality middle school program for students in wilmington. | $35,000 |
| The Teen Warehouse Inc | Wilmington, DE | To establish new programming in creative arts, education, and health and wellness by supporting staff time devoted to program development… | $35,000 |
| Academia Antonia Alonso Charter School | Newark, DE | For educator stipends to develop/support its transition to mastery-based learning, enhancing personalized instruction and improving… | $30,000 |
| Choir School of Delaware | Wilmington, DE | In general operating support for its vocal music, academic enrichment, health services, and life skills development programming. | $30,000 |
| Christina Cultural Arts Center Inc | Wilmington, DE | To launch chasing away the blues, a collaboration with mental health professionals to offer self-care workshops, family arts classes, and… | $30,000 |
| Delaware Adolescent Program Inc | Bear, DE | In general operating funds to support curriculum refinement, professional development, instructional materials, and enhance services for… | $30,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity of New Castle County | Wilmington, DE | For the direct material costs of its critical repairs program providing aging in place home repairs for low income elderly homeowners in… | $30,000 |
| Mental Health Association in Delaware | Wilmington, DE | To expand its peer-mentoring program with the mental health court of delaware that offers re-entry programs for non-violent offenders… | $30,000 |
| Neighborgood Partners Inc | Dover, DE | To support the pilot of central dover saves, a program for underbanked individuals in central dover to receive financial education, and… | $30,000 |
| Network Connect | Wilmington, DE | To sustain and expand the future culture creator employment program, enabling underserved and at risk youth to develop essential skills and… | $30,000 |
| Rodney Street Tennis and Tutoring Association | Wilmington, DE | For its summer education/enrichment and outreach programming for the underserved communities of wilmington. | $30,000 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Greater Delaware | Wilmington, DE | To support the launch of a meal program, called spoonful of hope, for its volunteers to provide nutritious meals to families with children… | $30,000 |
| Summer Learning Collaborative Inc | Wilmington, DE | To pilot an expansion of collabclub services to meet the needs of special education students at southern elementary school in new castle… | $30,000 |
| Tech Impact | Wilmington, DE | To support underrepresented delawareans through its itworks delaware and cxworks baylor workforce programs, and local nonprofits through… | $30,000 |
| The Grand | Wilmington, DE | For its stages of discovery school matinees providing students in prek to grade 12 an opportunity to experience live theatre with enriching… | $30,000 |
| True Access Capital Corp | Wilmington, DE | To help close the wealth gap by supporting bipoc businesses in delaware to gain access to capital and business advisory services. | $30,000 |
| Year Up Inc | New Castle, DE | To support year up united wilmington's student services such as transportation, childcare, mental health, and financial assistance to… | $30,000 |
| YWCA Delaware | Wilmington, DE | To sustain and expand the role of community health workers to improve the health and well-being of clients being served through its… | $30,000 |
| Zoe Ministries | Greenwood, DE | To bridge the temporary funding gap in the inaugural year of operations at hannahs house, the states first residential facility for young… | $30,000 |
| Public Allies Delaware (Americorps With Ud) | Wilmington, DE | To enable small delaware nonprofits with limited staff and capacity to benefit from a capacity building assessment and placement of a… | $27,000 |
| Delaware Institute for the Arts in Education | Wilmington, DE | To support its delaware wolf trap classroom residencies that connect professional artists with students and educators using… | $26,000 |
| Abc Parenting Institute | Newark, DE | To expand access to services for incarcerated parents by implementing attachment and biobehavioral catch-up (abc), an evidence-based home… | $25,000 |
| Amanacer Counseling and Resource Center | Wilmington, DE | To connect more people to bilingual, culturally responsive behavioral health professionals trained in community-based, trauma-informed care. | $25,000 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware | Wilmington, DE | To offer a free 10-week summer camp for teens ages 13-15 and create a blueprint that can be expanded statewide. | $25,000 |
| Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art | Chadds Ford, PA | To support the brandywine conservancy's protection and preservation of the brandywine-christina watershed through land preservation,… | $25,000 |
| Community Collaboration of Delaware Inc | New Castle, DE | To become a smart recovery multiple pathways provider, offering community meetings such as the family & friends program to support long… | $25,000 |
| Delaware Art Museum | Wilmington, DE | To support its healing through the arts program, which utilizes various art forms to bring about healing for community members in need. | $25,000 |
| Delaware Center for Horticulture | Wilmington, DE | To help reinvigorate its urban agriculture programming and establish partnerships with local organizations to expand fresh food access… | $25,000 |
| Delaware Public Media Inc | Dover, DE | To support digital marketing efforts to grow awareness and subscribers in new castle county. | $25,000 |
| Down Syndrome Association of Delaware | Newark, DE | To support development of a sibling component of its 2024 days of summer camp in kent and new castle county. | $25,000 |
| Elevate Vocal Arts | Wilmington, DE | To support program and curriculum development to scale its vocal arts apprenticeship and summer institute as a delaware workforce… | $25,000 |
| Green Beret Project | Dover, DE | To sustain engagement of 30 young adults in the mechanic shop operations while working toward a social enterprise start up for this… | $25,000 |
| Jefferson Street Center Inc | Wilmington, DE | To expand its community hub program leveraging its gym, kitchen, stage and meeting rooms as a resource for local organizations providing… | $25,000 |
| Las Amricas Aspira Academy | Newark, DE | Toward the purchase of a van to support its "exploring beyond the classroom" initiative providing underprivileged students at aspira… | $25,000 |
| Literacy Delaware | Wilmington, DE | To pilot an innovative program at local libraries to efficiently address unmet adult literacy needs through a conversation/book club and… | $25,000 |
| Local Journalism Initiative of Delaware | Wilmington, DE | To ensure education is a dedicated area of its independent, investigative news coverage and to host education-focused community events. | $25,000 |
| Operation Warm | Philadelphia, PA | To gift 1,200 under-resourced delaware children with a brand-new coat or a pair of new shoes. | $25,000 |
| Response - Help for Survivors of Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault | Aspen, CO | To support the final stages of the campaign to build the center for hope and healing for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. | $25,000 |
Showing the 60 largest of 153 grants to organizations.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3,703,800 | 153 |
| 2023 | $3,587,000 | 130 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2024, filed Oct 29, 2025 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202533019349101563
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 51-6015095
- Profile updated Nov 4, 2026
Facts on this page come from the foundation's own IRS Form 990-PF filings as published by the IRS. Grantvello does not know whether a foundation is accepting proposals right now: a past grant is not an open opportunity. Always confirm current guidelines with the funder before applying.