New Jersey · Private foundation
The Sella Foundation 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.
- $260k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $33,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations The Sella Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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 | 23 | $216k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $207k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $178k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $203k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $198k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $197k | 3% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $214k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $194k | 10% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairleigh Dickinson University | $180,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Scarc Foundation Inc | $105,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Wesley Chapel Weddington Athletic Association | $90,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Turning Point Inc | $65,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Birth Haven Inc | $55,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Domestic Abuse Services Inc | $50,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Center for Prevention & Counseling | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| 7th Judicial District Child Advocacy Ctr Dba the Dolphin House | $45,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Father Flanagan's Boys' Home | $36,000 | 9 | 0% |
| St Michael's Country Day School | $35,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($756k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sella Foundation Trust 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 Rhode Island Community Foundation · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust · Gruben Charitable Foundation · Kane Wallace Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Lotz Family Foundation · Lyn & Margaret Comfort Charitable Foundation · Newportfed Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About The Sella Foundation Trust
- How much does The Sella Foundation Trust give?
- The Sella Foundation Trust reported 25 grants totaling $260,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Sella Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Health (18%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are The Sella Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fairleigh Dickinson University ($180k), Scarc Foundation Inc ($105k), Wesley Chapel Weddington Athletic Association ($90k).
- Does The Sella Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sella Foundation Trust 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 Sella Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc, Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust.
- Where is The Sella Foundation Trust based?
- The Sella Foundation Trust is based in NJ.
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