Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Sheller 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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Sheller Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $1.3M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $1.2M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $1.2M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $639k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $644k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $655k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $613k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $589k | 28% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education | $2,136,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Thomas Jefferson University | $1,420,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Drexel University | $1,176,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc | $986,500 | 9 | 2% |
| National Liberty Museum | $84,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Women Against Abuse Inc | $84,494 | 9 | 0% |
| Mental Health Partnerships | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Opera Philadelphia | $64,808 | 6 | 0% |
| Prevention Point Philadelphia Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pathways to Housing - Pa | $30,600 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sheller Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Philadelphia Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The William Penn Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Daniel B and Florence E Green Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Snider Foundation · Independence Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts
How this is measured
About Sheller Family Foundation
- How much does Sheller Family Foundation give?
- Sheller Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $1,317,080 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sheller Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (61%), Arts & Culture (17%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Sheller Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ($2.1M), Thomas Jefferson University ($1.4M), Drexel University ($1.2M).
- Does Sheller Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sheller 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 Sheller Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw, The William Penn Foundation.
- Where is Sheller Family Foundation based?
- Sheller Family Foundation is based in PA.
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