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 One of the original Trustees, Edward Ball, duPont's loyal associate and brother-in-law, spent most of his life building the assets of the Trust. When he died in 1981, Mr. Ball left the greatest portion of his own estate to The Nemours Foundation.
The Foundation uses these funds from the Trust to achieve its mission: to execute prudently and effectively the Wills of Alfred I. duPont and Edward Ball in perpetuity. The Foundation's operations may change over time, based on the Trustees' determination as to the best way to accomplish the Mission. However, since 1940, The Foundation has operated non-profit health care institutions to carry out its mission. Nemours provides health care services to children in Mr. duPont's home state, Delaware, and surrounding states. Nemours also operates health care facilities that serve children in Florida and surrounding states. Alfred duPont moved to Florida in the 1920s, making his home Jacksonville until his death. The Foundation also funds selected health services for the needy elderly of Delaware. In 1940, The Foundation opened its first health care institution, The Alfred I. duPont Institute (now called the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children), originally a hospital for crippled children in Wilmington, Delaware. The Institute was the primary focus of the Foundation's work over the next 45 years. In 1976 the Board expanded its mission to encompass more diseases of children and by 1981, the Foundation had established the Nemours Health Clinic, a program of care for the elderly in Delaware. That same year, the Foundation also made its second major commitment to children's health care by purchasing the landmark Hope Haven Children's Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. The facility was renamed The Nemours Children's Hospital. Hope Haven had previously emphasized orthopedics, cleft palate repair, and rehabilitative programs similar to services provided at the Institute in Wilmington; but as a Nemours institution, its mission was also changed to encompass a broad array of children's illnesses. Convinced that the greatest unmet need for children in Jacksonville was improved pediatric specialty physician services and not more hospital beds, in 1984 The Foundation converted the hospital into a comprehensive pediatric subspecialty, ambulatory care system by involving other children's care organizations in Jacksonville. The Nemours Children's Hospital became the Nemours Children's Clinic, modeled after the world famous Mayo Clinic. By 1996, the Foundation had established similar clinics in Ft. Myers, Pensacola, and Orlando, and had developed the same model of collaborating with local providers to optimize children's care in Delaware and Florida. The Nemours Foundation is a 501(c)3-designated educational and charitable foundation and the nonprofit corporate beneficiary of the Alfred I. duPont Testamentary Trust and the Edward Ball Estate. The Nemours Foundation, Inc. conducts its activities through the health service institutions that are the operating divisions of The Foundation. It does not provide grants. The Delaware divisions are the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children and the Nemours Children's Clinic-Wilmington. The children's hospital is a full service, teaching and research hospital with approximately 130 beds, on the grounds of Nemours, Mr. duPont's Wilmington estate. The hospital and the associated, separate Nemours operating division, "Nemours Children's Clinic-Wilmington" have several primary care clinics and specialty care sites throughout Delaware, Southern New Jersey, and greater Philadelphia. In Florida the operating divisions are the respective Nemours Children's Clinics in Jacksonville, Ft. Myers, Pensacola, and Orlando. Similar to the specialty practice in Wilmington, the Clinics are organized along the Mayo Clinic model of a freestanding subspecialty practice, housing most all of the services of a children's hospital without the hospital beds. Children in the Delaware region are admitted to the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children. In Jacksonville, patients are admitted to Wolfson Children's Hospital at Baptist Medical Center. In Ft. Myers, Clinic physicians admit patients to Lee Memorial Hospital. In Pensacola, patients are admitted to Sacred Heart Hospital, and in Orlando they are admitted to Arnold Palmer Children's Hospital at Orlando Regional Medical Center. At each location, the Nemours Children's Clinic serves as the full time medical staff of the local children's hospital. In Florida, Nemours has an academic affiliation with Mayo. In Delaware, Nemours is affiliated with Thomas Jefferson University. These affiliations allow Nemours physicians to hold academic appointments with the respective medical school. Physicians then teach students and residents and conduct joint research with colleagues at Mayo and Thomas Jefferson. Nemours also actively collaborates with the medical schools of the University of Florida, University of South Florida, and the University of Miami, as well as other regional, research, and educational institutions. Nemours has arrangements with community hospitals in both Delaware and Florida. Through all these associations, medical students, residents, fellows, nursing students and other health professionals train in Nemours institutions, as Nemours attempts to serve as a significant community resource to area hospitals, medical schools, health care agencies, and patients. Nemours supports these extensive medical research and educational programs in Delaware and Florida by providing more than 17 million dollars annually in direct support of research and education activities of the staff. Nemours' researchers and educators compete nationally to supplement these funds with private and federal (National Institutes of Health) grants. Total funding for medical research and education at Nemours' institutions exceeds 20 million dollars annually. Find out more about The Nemours Foundation's operating divisions:
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"It has been my firm conviction throughout life that it is the duty of everyone in the world to do what is within his power to alleviate human suffering. It is, therefore, natural that I should desire, after having made provision for the immediate members of my family and others whom I have seen fit to remember, that the remaining portion of my estate be utilized for charitable needs."