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Fair Play Foundation: 43 grants to organizations, $749,000 (tax year ended December 2024)
Fair Play Foundation, a private foundation in Wilmington, DE, paid 43 grants to organizations totaling $749,000 in its tax year ended December 2024, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on November 12, 2025. The largest was $75,000 to Fauna and Flora International for support program and operations within discretion of ceo.
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- EIN
- 516017779
- Based in
- Wilmington, DE
- Assets
- $14,965,521
- Grants paid
- $749,000
- Tax year ended
- December 2024
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed November 12, 2025, IRS object ID 202533169349102183. It reported $749,000 in grants paid; 43 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fauna and Flora International | Cambridge, UK | Support program and operations within discretion of ceo | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Delaware Wild Lands | Odessa, DE | To support milford neck preserve land acquisition project | $70,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Wild Earth Allies | Chevy Chase, MD | Support for continuing work and new initiatives to increase protection for endangered wildlife and habitats | Environment | $70,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Conservation Fund | Arlington, VA | Continued support for highly successful mid- atlantic land protection efforts and to build the revolving fund | $60,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Delaware Museum of Nature and Science | Wilmington, DE | General operations. | $55,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Hagley Museum & Library | Wilmington, DE | For program support and operations within discretion of executive director | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Friends of First State Inc | Wilmington, DE | To support the new executive director's position and for ongoing projects at the brandywine valley unit of first state national historical park | Arts, culture and humanities | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of Virgina Law School Foundation | Charlottesville, VA | To support the environmental resilience programs at the virginia coastal research center on eastern shore of va | $35,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Down Syndrome Association of Delaware | Middletown, DE | To support education programs and general operations | Health care | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA | To support the blaine t. phillips lawn tree endowment fund | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Winterthur Museum | Winterthur, DE | General support for exhibits | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Challenge Program | Wilmington, DE | To support the new headquarters and shop location | Education | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Outward Bound USA | Boulder, CO | To support the leading forestry and carbon sequestration resarch in the country | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Bright's Creek Conservancyinc | Haverford, PA | To support forestry and riparian enchancement projects to improve water quality in the bushkill watershed and upper delware headwaters region | $12,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| 1103 Market Street Foundation | Wilmington, DE | Preservation of wilmington's oldest mansion house - the merrick house at 1103 market street, wilmington, de | Arts, culture and humanities | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Ashley Addiction Treatment | Havre de Grace, MD | To provide scholarships and support for addiction treatment for those in need | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Brandywine Red Clay Alliance | West Chester, PA | Brandywine watershed monitoring and education initiatives | Environment | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Delaware Botanic Gardens at Pepper Creek | Dagsboro, DE | To support garden design and land protection initiatives | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Faithful Friends Animal Society | New Castle, DE | To support general operations. | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Limen House Recovery | Wilmington, DE | To support recovery and treatment for addiction | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Southern Environmental Law Center | Charlottesville, VA | For the highly successful law fellow program | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Trout Unlimitedcoldwater Conservation Fund | Arlington, VA | Coldwater conservation fund projects to protect wild trout and the streams they inhabit | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Us Sportsmen's Alliance Foundation | Columbus, OH | Protection of the american heritage of hunting and fishing against the aggressive and well financed efforts to curtail or destroy it by animal rights group | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Ducks Unlimited - Brandywine Chapter | Wilmington, DE | Continued restoration efforts in delaware. | $7,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Friends of Cooch Bridge | Mountchanin, DE | Tto help protect one of delaware's most important historic sites and only revolutionary war battle site in the state. | $7,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Historic Odessa Foundation | Odessa, DE | Continued maintenance of historic trees and shrubs | Arts, culture and humanities | $7,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| St Michael's School and Nursery | Wilmington, DE | To support children's education and spiritual development in a 130- year old institution | $7,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Stroud Water Research Center | Avondale, PA | To support water's edge event and other meaningful watershed educational experiences (mwee) in the delaware river watershed (10% limit to overhead costs) | Science and technology | $7,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Thomas Jefferson Foundation | Charlottesville, VA | Continued historical research at monticello | Arts, culture and humanities | $7,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Delaware Center for Horticulture | Wilmington, DE | To support garden design initiatives | Environment | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| First State Squash | Wilmington, DE | To support the role of impacting young lives through the sport of squash | Youth development | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Kalmar Nykel Foundation | Wilmington, DE | To support general operations for historical interpretation | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Amboseli Trust for Elephants | Newbury, MA | To support cynthia moss' continued research of the population of elephants at the foot of mt. kilimanjaro, with emphasis on eliminating poaching | Animal-related | $2,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Atlantic Salmon Federation | Calais, ME | Support for land-based, closed containment salmon aquaculture as a viable alternative to open net pens in the ocean | Animal-related | $2,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Chesapeake Media Service | Seven Valleys, PA | Continued support of "bay journal" publication. | $2,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Lower Delmarva Genealogical Society | Salisbury, MD | To support ongoing research into genealogical issues across the delmarva. | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $2,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Urban Promise | Wilmington, DE | To support the urban trekkers program by introducing urban youth nature and the outdoors and the other programs that help underserved youth in wilmington, de | $2,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Wild and Scenic Film Festival | Glen Mills, PA | To support wild and scenic film festival 2021 | $2,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Saxis Island Museum | Saxis, VA | For restoration projects at the museum site | Arts, culture and humanities | $2,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Ocean View Historical Society | Ocean View, DE | To support genetal operations | Arts, culture and humanities | $1,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Chadds Ford Historical Society | Chadds Ford, PA | For general operating costs | $1,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Delaware Historical Society | Wilmington, DE | General operations. | $1,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Waterfowl Festivalwaterfowl Chesapeake | Easton, MD | For continued support of annual waterfowl festival as long as the event focuses on waterfowl events and coincides with hunting seasons in maryland. | $1,000 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Environment | $85,000 |
| Arts, culture and humanities | $68,500 |
| Health care | $25,000 |
| Education | $20,000 |
| Science and technology | $7,500 |
| Youth development | $5,000 |
| Animal-related | $5,000 |
| Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $2,500 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| Delaware | $375,000 |
| Virginia | $149,500 |
| Maryland | $83,500 |
| Pennsylvania | $36,000 |
| Colorado | $15,000 |
| Ohio | $10,000 |
| Massachusetts | $2,500 |
| Maine | $2,500 |
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Updated November 12, 2025. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.