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Schell 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.

$575k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
47%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 27
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$4.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Schell Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureCivil RightsSocial ScienceOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$575k29%
FY202417$375k47%
FY202327$275k59%
FY202220$280k85%
FY202113$227k31%
FY202014$200k29%
FY201916$191k25%
FY201816$188k38%
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$472kYouth Development$315kEducation$314kRecreation & Sports$313kHuman Services$308kHealth$208kFood & Nutrition$80kEnvironment$75kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
MI
NY
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
MO
DE
TN
NC
DC
MS
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Christ Redeemer Church$330,0007n/a
Sussex Sports Center Foundation Inc$222,500615%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc$195,00070%
Sussex Academy Foundation Inc$118,00022%
Upper Valley Haven$72,50070%
Reality Ministries Inc$67,50072%
Festival of Cheer Inc$60,00027%
Beebe Medical Foundation$60,00011%
Springboard Delaware$60,00022%
Clothing Our Kids Inc$40,00044%
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All grantees of Schell Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Christ Redeemer Church$330,0007n/a
Sussex Sports Center Foundation Inc$222,500615%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc$195,00070%
Sussex Academy Foundation Inc$118,00022%
Upper Valley Haven$72,50070%
Reality Ministries Inc$67,50072%
Festival of Cheer Inc$60,00027%
Beebe Medical Foundation$60,00011%
Springboard Delaware$60,00022%
Clothing Our Kids Inc$40,00044%
Cape Henlopen Food Basket$40,00058%
Cape Henlopen Educational Fund$35,000215%
The Lewes Historical Society Inc$28,00031%
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health$25,00010%
Lewes Public Library Inc$25,00011%
Shepherds Office Inc$25,000113%
M3 Foundation$20,0001n/a
Kind to Kids Foundation$20,00033%
Willing Hands Enterprises Inc$15,00020%
The Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice$15,0002n/a
The Dollywood Foundation$10,00020%
Great Futures Fund$10,00026%
M3 Foundation Inc$10,0001n/a
Trustees of Dartmouth College$10,0001n/a
Youth Haven Inc$10,00010%
Primeros Pasos Inc$10,0001n/a
Henlopen Soccer Club Inc$10,00013%
Adult & Teen Challenge USA$10,00011%
Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company Inc$5,0001n/a
The Fibrous Dysplasia Foundation$5,00012%
Vox Christian Fellowship$5,0001n/a
Council for Economic Education$5,00010%
Leadership Edge Incorporated$5,00011%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$5,00010%
The Tatnall School Inc$5,00010%
Immanuel Shelter Inc$5,00011%
Eleazar Wheelock Society Inc$5,00016%
Protect Our Winters$2,50010%
Center for the Inland Bays Inc$2,0002n/a
Crisis House$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($887k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Schell Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSussex Sports Center Foundation Inc: $222,500 over 6y, 15% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc: $195,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSussex Academy Foundation Inc: $118,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUpper Valley Haven: $72,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetReality Ministries Inc: $67,500 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetFestival of Cheer Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetBeebe Medical Foundation: $60,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSpringboard Delaware: $60,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetClothing Our Kids Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetCape Henlopen Food Basket: $40,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetCape Henlopen Educational Fund: $35,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetThe Lewes Historical Society Inc: $28,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetDartmouth-Hitchcock Health: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLewes Public Library Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetShepherds Office Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetKind to Kids Foundation: $20,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetWilling Hands Enterprises Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Dollywood Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Futures Fund: $10,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetYouth Haven Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHenlopen Soccer Club Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAdult & Teen Challenge USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Fibrous Dysplasia Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCouncil for Economic Education: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLeadership Edge Incorporated: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Tatnall School Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetImmanuel Shelter Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEleazar Wheelock Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetProtect Our Winters: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCrisis House: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

Delaware Community Foundation IncDE37× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Red Wagon Calagione Family Foundation F/K/A Beer & Benevolence Foundation · IJ and Mary LaRosa Memorial Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Carolyn S & Donald F Obrecht Foundation · Draper Holdings Charitable Foundation I · The Martin Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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.

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Find your warmest path to Schell Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Schell Family Foundation

How much does Schell Family Foundation give?
Schell Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $575,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Schell Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (19%), Youth Development (12%), Education (12%).
Who are Schell Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Christ Redeemer Church ($330k), Sussex Sports Center Foundation Inc ($223k), Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc ($195k).
Does Schell Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Schell Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Schell Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaware Community Foundation Inc, The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc, Longwood Foundation Inc.
Where is Schell Family Foundation based?
Schell Family Foundation is based in FL.

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 89 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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