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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRIST REDEEMER CHURCH | $100,000 |
| SUSSEX ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE | $65,000 |
| BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE | $35,000 |
| SUSSEX FAMILY YMCA | $25,000 |
| LEWES PUBLIC LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK HEALTH | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| UPPER VALLEY HAVEN | $20,000 |
| REALITY MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CAPE HENLOPEN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CLOTHING OUR KIDS | $10,000 |
| WILLING HANDS | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
38 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +74%
- UVUPPER VALLEY HAVEN7× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +107%
REALITY MINISTRIES INC7× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- CNCCEF NEW ENGLANDone grant, 2022 · $40k
- CHCAPE HENLOPEN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $28k
- SOShepherds Office Incgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +103%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to advance housing opportunities, end homelessness, and promote thriving communities for all.
To lead the state of delaware's economic development efforts.
The mission of the organization is to inspire hope in our communities by providing food to nourish delawareans, while collaborating on long-term solutions to hunger and poverty.
Public library
The delaware center for justice, inc. seeks to ensure an effective, efficient, and equitable system of justice in delaware through advocacy, direct services, research and public education.
To reduce the devastating long-term effects that child abuse has on children, their families and society through immediate, coordinated, child focused services, education, and advocacy.
Leadership delaware, inc. (ldi) recruits outstanding delawareans and prepares them with the knowledge, vision, integrity and networks to significantly impact and transform their communities, and to excel at community, non-profit,…
The Selbyville Public Library provides free access to information and library materials to residents and visitors to Sussex County in the State of Delaware.
The organization's mission is to maximize the community's resources to improve the quality of lives of all delawareans.
To be the leading advocate for delaware's children. we provide creative prevention and treatment programs that meet the changing needs of families. we serve dependent, neglected, and abused children and their parents. we provide programs…
The Laurel District Library provides access to information and library materials for residents and visitors to Sussex County in the State of Delaware.
Delaware Futures serves middle and high school students throughout Delaware who face significant academic, social, and economic barriers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Festival of Cheer Inc and the most unlike its peers is Henlopen Soccer Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 89 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SUSSEX SPORTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds SUSSEX ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds REALITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FESTIVAL OF CHEER INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CAPE HENLOPEN FOOD BASKET ↗
- Who funds Clothing Our Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPE HENLOPEN EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE LEWES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Shepherds Office Inc ↗
- Who funds Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health ↗
- Who funds LEWES PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds KIND TO KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Schell Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Kind to Kids Foundation — 69% of income from government
- Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company Inc — 64% of income from government
- Center for the Inland Bays Inc — 59% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Primeros Pasos Inc — 38% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc — 33% of income from government
- Lewes Public Library Inc — 27% of income from government
- Willing Hands Enterprises Inc — 17% of income from government
- The Lewes Historical Society Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cape Henlopen Educational Fund — 3% of income from government
- Beebe Medical Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Cape Henlopen Food Basket — 0% of income from government
- The Tatnall School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Youth Haven Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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