Chichester Dupont Foundation

About Chichester Dupont Foundation

A defining pattern of Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc is its sustained support for Children's Beach House in Wilmington, including a 2024 grant that paired $625,000 for annual operating expenses with $250,000 for the MA-RAN endowment fund. That relationship signals a funder that backs one local institution repeatedly and at substantial scale. The foundation's giving also includes challenge and matching support, such as a 2025 grant to match a challenge grant from the MA-RAN endowment, showing a preference for funding that can attract additional dollars. Beyond that anchor, the foundation funds a small circle of Delaware organizations working with children, youth, and other vulnerable residents. Its recent awards include support for youth suicide prevention, services for children who have experienced sexual assault, test preparation and career transition, emergency food, and housing-related services. The portfolio also reaches into education and community programming, with grants for school governance engagement, nursing training, and theatre in schools. Taken together, the grants show a local funder that uses operating support, program support, capital help, and matching gifts to strengthen Delaware nonprofits, especially in Wilmington.

What Chichester Dupont Foundation Funds

Child-focused service delivery is central to the foundation's recent grantmaking. In 2025, it gave $30,000 to Soar for services for children who have experienced sexual assault, and in 2024 it gave another $30,000 to the same organization for services to children who have experienced sexual assault or trauma. Education support appears in several forms. The foundation gave $50,000 to First State Educate in 2025 for a program to increase public engagement in school governance, and $35,000 to Delaware College Scholars in 2023 to support a test prep curriculum. It also awarded $35,000 to Delaware Tech and Community College in 2023 to support the training of 16 certified nursing students. Community stability and basic needs also show up in the portfolio. Recent grants supported the Emergency Food Program in the East Side of Wilmington at St Patricks Center, the backpack program at Food Bank, and an emergency shelter for homeless single women at Central Delaware Housing.

How Chichester Dupont Foundation Gives