· 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 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 $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 |
| TOWN PLAYERS OF NEW CANAAN | $2,000 |
| STAYING PUT IN NEW CAANAN | $2,000 |
| GETABOUT | $2,000 |
| NEW CANAAN LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| CCNC FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| NEW CANAAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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
How this is measured
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 CAMAAM RAMS FOOTBALL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
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,…
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 64 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 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 MEALS-ON-WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds WILTON VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS 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 THE WEEKAPAUG FOUNDATION FOR CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds Kips Bay Boys & Girls 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Seelert Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Seelert Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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