· Private foundation
The Seelert Foundation Inc
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 $10k14 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY | $16,000 |
| NEW CANAAN RAM FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION | $11,000 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,500 |
| NEW CANAAN LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| PROJECT BROADWAY | $3,000 |
| NEW CANAAN EMS | $2,500 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| GETABOUT | $2,000 |
| TOWN PLAYERS OF NEW CANAAN | $2,000 |
| STAYING PUT IN NEW CAANAN | $2,000 |
| NEW CANAAN LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| NEW CANAAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| UCONN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- TNTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +27%
- TPTOWN PLAYERS OF NEW CANAAN INC3× · 2023–2025 · $27k · revenue +54%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
- WRWoodstock Region Journalism Foundation Incone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +5%
- NCNEW CANAAN GARDEN CLUB INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +114%
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.
Save New Canaan Inc. (the Corporation) was formed to promote sustainable and appropriate development, as well as to advocate for the protection of open spaces, wetlands and other public trust goods, such as road, water and sewer…
Encourage art appreciation
Volunteer fire department
Acquisiton, distribution and conservation of reading material
Preservation of open space in watertown, ct; maintenance of owned and conserved properties and public education of enviromental issues.
Friends of nathaniel witherell is a not-for-profit organization committed to raising funds in support of the nathaniel witherell, the skilled nursing and short term rehabilitation center owned and operated by the town of greenwich, ct and…
The council creates positive environmental, social and economic change by revitalizing the woonasquatucket river, its greenway and its communities.
The purpose of the association is to provide for the protection and general welfare of the residents and owners of real property in the northeastern section of greenwich, connecticut, including the preservation of the residential character…
Our mission is to ensure that every potential client identified by the town of new canaan or the southwestern connecticut commission on aging, or referred to us by family, friends, medical personnel, or church group will be serviced for as…
To collect, preserve and publish historical and genealogical information pertaining to the early settlement and subsequent history of new london county, especially those towns bordering the thames river.
To foster an equitable and inclusive community in greater waterbury and litchfield hills by inspiring generosity, supporting organizations, and cultivating effective leaders. the foundation works to address the community's critical issues,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Woodstock Region Journalism Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 64 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 WAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds TOWN PLAYERS OF NEW CANAAN INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN EMS INC ↗
- Who funds GETABOUT INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BROADWAY ↗
- Who funds NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN BEAUTIFICATION LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds PENTANGLE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds WILTON VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER THEATRE OF NEW CANAAN INC ↗
- Who funds CCNC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Woodstock Region Journalism Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club ↗
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: Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation · The Morris Family Foundation · MLE Foundation Inc · Jeniam Foundation · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Corbet Family Foundation · The a James Bach and Vona Hopkins Foundation Inc · Hilltop Foundation Inc · Squier Family Foundation · The Queenan Fdn Acct
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 The Seelert Foundation Inc 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.
- Friends of Ambler Farm Inc — 7% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Town Players of New Canaan Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wilton Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Summer Theatre of New Canaan Inc — 1% of income from government
- Norman Williams Public Library Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Woodstock Foundation 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.