Connecticut · 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.
- $73k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $538k
- 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 The Seelert Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 17 | $70k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $61k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $68k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $55k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $58k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $60k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $50k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $57k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waveny Park Conservancy Inc | $100,800 | 7 | 8% |
| The New Canaan Library Inc | $36,315 | 9 | 0% |
| Waveny Lifecare Network Inc | $33,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Town Players of New Canaan Inc | $27,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc | $21,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Green Mountain Valley School Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc | $17,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Norwalk Hospital Foundation | $17,000 | 4 | 0% |
| New Canaan EMS Inc | $10,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Getabout Inc | $10,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($207k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Seelert Foundation Inc 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: 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
How this is measured
About The Seelert Foundation Inc
- How much does The Seelert Foundation Inc give?
- The Seelert Foundation Inc reported 18 grants totaling $72,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Seelert Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (23%), Health (22%), Education (15%).
- Who are The Seelert Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Waveny Park Conservancy Inc ($101k), The New Canaan Library Inc ($36k), Waveny Lifecare Network Inc ($34k).
- Does The Seelert Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Seelert Foundation Inc 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 The Seelert Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hobbs Family Charitable Trust, Alexander Family Foundation Inc, Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation.
- Where is The Seelert Foundation Inc based?
- The Seelert Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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