Skip to content
American Factbook
Menu

Nonprofits in Delaware

The IRS recognises 10,458 tax-exempt organizations with a Delaware address, rank 42 of 51. 1,625 of them have a Form 990 on record.

American Factbook Research

At a glance

10,458
Organizations recognised
Registration, not activity.
9,202
Recognised under 501(c)(3)
The charitable subsection.
1,625
With a Form 990 on record
The only organizations with financial figures here.
994.2
Per 100,000 residents
Census resident population as the denominator.
$23,291,742,074
Revenue reported
Summed across filings, each for a different year.
0.5%
Share of all US organizations
Of 1,964,958 recognised nationally.

Taken from the IRS on September 19, 2026. Address of record, which is not necessarily where an organization operates.

Largest by revenue

2 more columns on a wider screen

Organizations in Delaware by total revenue on their most recent Form 990
RankOrganizationRevenue
1ASTRAZENECA PATIENT ASSISTANCE ORGANIZATION$4,589,156,843
2CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES INC$3,368,541,741
3AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$2,503,754,849
4UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$1,689,371,610
5BAYHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER INC$978,027,537
6BEEBE MEDICAL CENTER INC$634,908,513
7SHELBY CULLOM DAVIS CHARITABLE FUND INC$487,136,416
8FEIGIN FOUNDATION$309,499,534
9DELAWARE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC$257,934,054
10DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY$250,363,927
11THE LINUX FOUNDATION$220,730,594
12SMILOW FOUNDATION INC$200,995,119
13UNION HOSPITAL OF CECIL COUNTY$199,132,581
14AMERICAN GIFT FUND$166,326,352
15ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL INC$158,518,423

The fifteen largest with a filing on record. Organizations without one are counted above but have no figures to rank.

Largest by assets

2 more columns on a wider screen

Organizations in Delaware by assets
RankOrganizationAssets
1UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$4,792,169,695
2SHELBY CULLOM DAVIS CHARITABLE FUND INC$3,074,380,027
3CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES INC$2,807,952,808
4BAYHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER INC$1,633,864,189
5THE GRATEFUL LIVES FOUNDATION$1,114,710,709
6BEEBE MEDICAL CENTER INC$723,804,718
7AMERICAN GIFT FUND$642,561,389
8ESSEX AVENUE FOUNDATION$616,149,256
9UNIDEL FOUNDATION INC$551,732,382
10DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY$512,212,979

Book value at the end of the year, which is what all three forms report.

Highest reported compensation

2 more columns on a wider screen

Organizations in Delaware by reported compensation
RankOrganizationReported compensation
1AMERICAN GIFT FUND$3,620,608
2CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES INC$3,545,430
3FIVE POINTE PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY INSURANCE COMPANY$2,602,428
4WILMINGTON UNIVERSITY INC$2,384,463
5BAYHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER INC$1,788,920
6THE LINUX FOUNDATION$1,613,976
7UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$1,523,193
8ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL INC$1,448,800
9CONEXIO CARE INC$1,405,199
10UNION HOSPITAL OF CECIL COUNTY$1,282,277

The largest amount an organization here reported paying one person, as reported.

What they do

Organizations in Delaware by NTEE major group
CategoryOrganizations
Philanthropy, Voluntarism and Grantmaking Foundations858
Education100
Human Services86
Health Care43
Public Safety, Disaster Preparedness and Relief43
Arts, Culture and Humanities41
Community Improvement and Capacity Building24
Housing and Shelter20
Science and Technology17
Environment15

Organizations the IRS never classified do not appear here. A code is assigned at registration and rarely updated, so it describes what an organization said it would do.

Nearest by count

States either side of Delaware by number of organizations
RankStateOrganizations
41Idaho10,491
43Maine10,329

Delaware elsewhere on the Factbook

  • Reported crimeCrime and justice

    Offenses reported to police by type, the trend, and the reporting coverage.

  • Cities by violent crime rateCrime and justice

    What each agency serving 25,000 or more reported, ranked. Agency populations overlap, so these do not add up to the state.

  • Prison populationCrime and justice

    People held under the state’s correctional authority, and the imprisonment rate. A different publisher counting a different thing.

  • Arrests by race, sex and ageCrime and justice

    Arrests as the FBI’s participating agencies reported them, with what the figures can and cannot support at the top.

  • Hate crimeCrime and justice

    Incidents reported to the FBI by bias motivation, as counts — the collection publishes no participation share, so there is no rate to compare states on.

  • Federal obligationsFederal spending

    What federal agencies obligated against a place of performance in the state, per resident and by agency.

  • Payments to doctorsHealth

    What drug and device companies reported paying doctors with a practice address in the state, and the largest recipients.

  • The Delaware Factbook entryAcross the Factbook

    Every measure the Factbook publishes for this state in one place, each with where it ranks among the others and the record it came from.

The immigration hub has no page for a state: CBP publishes by sector and field office, which are its own areas of responsibility rather than a geography, so assigning them to states would be a claim the data does not make. Immigration and the border.

Compared with Maine.

Full rankings: largest by revenue, largest by assets, and largest grantmakers, and highest reported officer compensation. All organizations: nonprofits.

What this page cannot show

  • The state is the organization’s address of record with the IRS. A national charity registered here operates elsewhere too.
  • Churches need not apply for recognition, so they are under-represented, and the ones here are those that chose to apply.
  • Financial figures exist only for organizations with a Form 990 on record, and each describes whichever year that organization last reported.

Full method at methodology.

Sources

Data retrieved