· 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.
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 · $83k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $177k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $33,000 |
| REVEREND BROWN SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| WESLEY CHAPEL WEDDINGTON ATHLETIC ASS | $22,500 |
| FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIV | $20,000 |
| SCARC FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY | $11,500 |
| DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR PREVENTION & COUNSELING | $10,000 |
| BIRTH HAVEN | $10,000 |
| AMAZING GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| BENNY'S BODEGA | $10,000 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $8,000 |
| PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER | $7,500 |
| TURNING POINT | $7,500 |
| AMHERST SURVIVAL CENTER | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $371k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +20% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 6 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- SFSCARC FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +23%
- WCWesley Chapel Weddington Athletic Association4× · 2022–2025 · $90k · revenue +15%
- TPTURNING POINT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- SMST MAURUS HANGA ABBEY CO FRILLDEFONCEone grant, 2022 · $10k
- UMUnited Methodist Homes of New Jersey Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +616%
- TITHRIVE INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +2%
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.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
The mission of ginnie's house children's advocacy center is to create a refuge of comfort, healing, hope, and justice for abused children, while providing community education and advocacy to prevent child abuse.
Transforming lives through safety, healing and empowerment.
Safe harbor seeks to reduce the trauma to children who are victims of abuse or neglect or witnesses to crimes by promoting the coordination of multi-disciplinary investigations, conducting forensic interviews in a child-friendly…
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
The purpose of the ricadv is to eliminate domestic violence in rhode island our mission is to support and enhance the work of our member agencies and to provide leadership on the issue of domestic violence.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
Crisis intervention & advocacy center is an advocacy program designed to respond to victims of domestic abuse, sexual assualt, stalking, dating violence, and homelessness in adair, adams, clarke, dallas, decatur, guthrie, madison,…
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
Psrc is the go-to resource where aging adults and their families find support, guidance, educational and social programs to help navigate life transitions and continue to be active, healty and engaged in the community.
The core mission of the organization is to assist homeless or at-risk individuals and families secure stable homes. this is accomplished by providing a range of services including housing, basic needs, shelter, case management, referrals,…
Mission statement: hope, healing, safety, social change. working together to end domestic and partner violence. vision statement: a community unified in peace, justice, and equity, for the safety and well-being of every individual.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Domestic Abuse Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fairleigh Dickinson University. 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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 68 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 Montrose Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Fairleigh Dickinson University ↗
- Who funds SCARC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wesley Chapel Weddington Athletic Association ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PREVENTION & COUNSELING ↗
- Who funds 7TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT CHILD ADVOCACY CTR DBA THE DOLPHIN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAEL'S COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SCARC INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds HAVEN ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BENNY 'S BODEGA A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAIL TO PREVAIL ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SURVIVAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds RED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
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: 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
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 Sella Foundation Trust 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.
- Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc — 53% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Survival Centers Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Center for Prevention & Counseling — 4% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
- Scarc 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.