· Private foundation
Seherr-Thoss Charitable Trust
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 $10k10 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $301k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $315k
- $250k+1 grant · $548k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITCHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER | $548,094 |
| LITCHFIELD DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS PARKS & RECREATION | $125,199 |
| ARETHUSA FARM FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,100 |
| MORGAN-WEIR POST #27 AMERICAN LEGION | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,000 |
| LITCHFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $40,206 |
| LITCHFIELD LAND TRUST | $35,000 |
| NORTHFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $35,000 |
| OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY | $34,750 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LITCHFIELD COMMUNITY GREENWAY | $32,000 |
| EAST LITCHFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $21,373 |
| LITCHFIELD MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $18,000 |
| NORTHWEST CT ADULT DAY CARE | $15,000 |
| YMCA CAMP MOHAWK | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 9 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $297k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LCLITCHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +21% · 67% of their budget
- LLLITCHFIELD LAND TRUST INC9× · 2017–2025 · $578k · revenue +78% · 25% of their budget
- OWOLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $521k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- TOTOWN OF LITCHFIELD BROADBAND COMMISSIONone grant, 2023 · $67k
- ALAMERICAN LEGION POST 27 MORGAN WEIRone grant, 2019 · $56k
- TOTOWN OF LITCHFIELD TRAFFIC SAFETYone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
To learn the work of the Connecticut Junior republic in order to promote good public relations; to make the Republic known to the general public who might help it financially; to assist the Director in general improvement of the campus and…
Provide ambulance service to community
To identify, preserve and promote the natural, agricultural, scenic, recreational, historic, and cultural resources of Litchfield County, Connecticut and to work to conserve them for current and future generations by preserving and…
Promote general business climate in Litchfield
Maintain medians & shoulders on Route 17
Provide housing for individuals of modest means.
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 85 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 LITCHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LITCHFIELD LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds LITCHFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LITCHFIELD COMMUNITY GREENWAY INC ↗
- Who funds RIPLEY INC ↗
- Who funds PLUMB HILL PLAYING FIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD VOLUTEER FIRE COMPANY I ↗
- Who funds Arethusa Farm Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EAST LITCHFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds LITCHFIELD HILLS ROWING CLUB ↗
- Who funds BANTAM CINEMA & ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Litchfield Montessori School Inc ↗
- Who funds CJR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP MOHAWK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LITCHFIELD CEMETERY ASSN INVESTMENT ↗
- Who funds Litchfield Soccer Club ↗
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: Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Seherr-Thoss Foundation · McFadden Family Foundation · The Littman Family Foundation Inc · Francis J and Louisa J Oneglia Foundation Inc · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · David Wallace Smith and Joan Stowell Smith charitable Foundation · Torrington Savings Foundation · Hrd-C Foundation · The Mae Casali Bonvicini Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Seherr-Thoss Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seherr-Thoss Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Community Systems Inc: 95% of income from government
- Partners for Sustainable Healthy Communities Inc: 68% of income from government
- Prime Time House Inc: 50% of income from government
- Greenwoods Counseling & Referrals Inc: 7% of income from government
- Litchfield Historical Society: 3% of income from government
- The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital: 3% of income from government
- Friends of the Litchfield Community Greenway Inc: 3% of income from government
- Bantam Cinema & Arts Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- East Litchfield Volunteer Fire Co Inc: 1% of income from government
- Northfield Voluteer Fire Company I: 1% of income from government
- Susan B Anthony Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Litchfield County Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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