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Scellato Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$109k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$412kEnvironment$25kPhilanthropy$25kInternational$16kHealth$11kPublic Benefit$11kEducation$9kHuman Services$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
$2,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRACEPOINT CHURCH$44,500
YES MINISTRIES$15,000
THE LIGHT CHURCH$9,000
SAUL TO PAUL MINISTRIES$5,280
SAMARITANS PURSE$5,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$2,000
LES FELDICK MINISTRIES$2,000
INDIANA RIGHT TO LIFE$2,000
THINGS TO COME MISSION$2,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$2,000
ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$2,000
GOOD NEWS MISSION$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
CHARITY BAPTIST CHURCH$2,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$1,400
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%LORD'S LOCKER: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
IL
WI
NY
IN
PA
WV
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$466k · 25 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
11

Total granted

$466k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+30%

Still filing today

48%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationHealthInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • YM
    YES Ministries Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $43k · revenue ×12
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +7%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • BL
    BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +30%
  • SB
    SUBURBAN BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $11k
  • JC
    JOHNSON COUNTY LIBRARY
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
2
Jubal Band Ministries

Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.

Religion
3
Amazing Facts International

To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…

Religion
4
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

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5
The Rock Ministries

To preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the Nations

Human Services
6
Family Research Council

The family research council's primary exempt purpose is to reaffirm and promote nationally, and particularly in washington, dc, the traditional family unit and the judeo-christian value system upon which it is built. frc's activities in…

Human Services
7
Spirit Invasion Ministries

Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
8
God's Light in the Darkness Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Faithbytheword Incorporated

As Christs followers, we have the Holy Spirit residing within us, which means we have His power to fulfill this command. We cant save anyone, but its our responsibility to tell people about the God who can. How will they believe unless…

Human Services
10
Redeemed Christian Church of God

To strengthen marriages and families, to encourage Christian fellowship as we evangelize the lost around us and minister to the needy with the resources God has blessed us.

Religion
11
Bibles and Bikes
Youth Development
12
Face to Faith Ministry

Our mission is to make disciples of jesus christ by engaging indigenous pastors around the world. our vision is to train pastors and their congregants to share the gospel in a friendly, non-denominational approach across all ethnicities,…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good News Mission Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Lords Locker Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
7/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRACEPOINT CHURCH: $270,000 · OtherGRACEPOINT CHURCHTHE LIGHT CHURCH: $19,000 · Other+25 more: $70,660 · Other+25 moreSAUL TO PAUL MINISTRIES: $45,280 · ReligionSAUL TO PAUL MINISTRIESYES Ministries Inc: $43,000 · ReligionYES Ministries IncSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSELES FELDICK MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · ReligionROD AND STAFF MINISTRIES INC: $4,000 · Religion+2 more: $2,000 · ReligionBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA: $25,000 · AnimalsJOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesTHE LORDS LOCKER INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $4,400 · Health
Other$359,660Religion$109,280Animals$25,000Philanthropy$25,000Human Services$8,000Education$5,000Health$4,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAUL TO PAUL MINISTRIES: $45,280 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetYES Ministries Inc: $43,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA RIGHT TO LIFE INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLES FELDICK MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $4,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROD AND STAFF MINISTRIES INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGOOD NEWS MISSION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOAZ PROJECT INC: $2,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH AND FREEDOM COALITION INC: $2,012 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LORDS LOCKER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SAUL TO PAUL MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds YES Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA ↗
  • Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIANA RIGHT TO LIFE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LES FELDICK MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds ROD AND STAFF MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds GOOD NEWS MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOAZ PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds FAITH AND FREEDOM COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Berean Bible Society ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LORDS LOCKER INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA10.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Scellato Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scellato Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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