· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUSSEX ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CHRIST REDEEMER CHURCH | $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 |
| REALITY MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| UPPER VALLEY HAVEN | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CAPE HENLOPEN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CLOTHING OUR KIDS | $10,000 |
| WILLING HANDS | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- SASUSSEX ACADEMY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 89 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 FESTIVAL OF CHEER INC ↗
- Who funds BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Clothing Our Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPE HENLOPEN FOOD BASKET ↗
- Who funds CAPE HENLOPEN EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE LEWES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health ↗
- Who funds LEWES PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds Shepherds Office Inc ↗
- Who funds KIND TO KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Schell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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