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The Sella Foundation Trust at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$541kHealth$376kHuman Services$331kRecreation & Sports$272kPhilanthropy$219kHousing & Shelter$101kReligion$86kFood & Nutrition$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $177k
$7,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CENTER FOR PREVENTION & COUNSELING$10,000
BIRTH HAVEN$10,000
DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC$10,000
BENNY'S BODEGA$10,000
AMAZING GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH$10,000
THE TREVOR PROJECT$8,000
TURNING POINT$7,500
AMHERST SURVIVAL CENTER$7,500
PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER: $8k → 17%BOYS TOWN: $5k → 12%Turning Point: $8k → 7%United Methodist Homes of NJ Founda: $10k → 6%BOYS TOWN: $5k → 12%Turning Point: $8k → 7%Boys Town: $4k → 12%TURNING POINT: $8k → 7%Boys Town: $4k → 12%Help Center Inc: $8k → 10%Turning Point: $8k → 7%BOYS TOWN: $4k → 12%Help Center Inc: $5k → 10%TURNING POINT: $8k → 7%BOYS TOWN: $4k → 12%HELP CENTER INC: $5k → 10%TURNING POINT: $8k → 7%Boys Town: $4k → 12%Turning Point: $8k → 7%Boys Town: $3k → 12%Help Center Inc: $5k → 10%Turning Point: $5k → 7%Boys Town: $3k → 12%HELP CENTER INC: $5k → 10%NEWPORT COUNTY WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 7%SCARC FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 6%SCARC INC: $15k → 6%SCARC FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 6%SCARC FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 6%SCARC INC: $15k → 6%NEWPORT COUNTY WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $4k → 7%SCARC FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 6%NEWPORT COUNTY WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $4k → 7%SCARC FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 6%SCARC FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 6%SCARC FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 6%NEWPORT COUNTY WOMEN'S RESOURCE CEN: $4k → 7%BENNY'S BODEGA: $10k → 6%DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC: $10k → 6%BENNY'S BODEGA: $10k → 6%Domestic Abuse Services Inc: $5k → 6%Domestic Abuse Services Inc: $5k → 6%DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC: $5k → 6%Domestic Abuse Services Inc: $5k → 6%DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC: $5k → 6%DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC: $5k → 6%Domestic Abuse Services Inc: $5k → 6%Domestic Abuse Services Inc: $5k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
TN
NC
SC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 48 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
11

Total granted

$1.7M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+2%

Still filing today

54%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SF
    SCARC FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +23%
  • WC
    Wesley Chapel Weddington Athletic Association
    4× · 2022–2025 · $90k · revenue +17%
  • TP
    TURNING POINT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • UM
    United Methodist Homes of New Jersey Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +616%
  • SM
    ST MAURUS HANGA ABBEY CO FRILLDEFONCE
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • GR
    GETEWAY RESIDENTIAL SERVICES
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Brighton Marine Inc

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.

Health
2
Sussex County Childrens Advocacy

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.

Unclassified
3
Ywca Pierce County

Transforming lives through safety, healing and empowerment.

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4
Safe Harbor Child Advocacy Center Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
5
Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

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6
Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence

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.

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7
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
8
Crisis Intervention & Advocacy Center

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,…

Human Services
9
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

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10
Princeton Senior Resource Center Dba Center for Modern Aging Princeton

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.

Human Services
11
Crossroads Rhode Island

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,…

Human Services
12
Dove Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Domestic Abuse Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 68 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
27/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REVEREND BROWN SCHOOL: $225,000 · OtherREVEREND BROWN SCHOOLMontrose Community Foundation: $189,000 · OtherMontrose Community FoundationWesley Chapel Weddington Athletic A: $110,000 · OtherWesley Chapel Weddington Athletic AST JUDE CHILD RESEARCH HOSP: $92,500 · OtherST JUDE CHILD RESEARCH HOSPBIRTH HAVEN INC: $55,000 · OtherCTR FOR PREVENT AND COUNSELING: $40,000 · Other+39 more: $442,200 · Other+39 moreSCARC FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesSCARC FOUNDATION INCTURNING POINT INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesTURNING POINT INCDOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC ABUSE SERVIC…Father Flanagan's Boys' Home: $36,000 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boy…SCARC INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesSCARC INCHELP CENTER INC: $27,500 · Human ServicesHELP CENTER INCWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES: $27,000 · Human ServicesWOMENS RESOURCE CENTE…BENNY 'S BODEGA A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $20,000 · Human Services+3 more: $30,000 · Human Services+3 moreFairleigh Dickinson University: $180,000 · EducationFairleigh …+1 more: $6,000 · EducationWesley Chapel Weddington Athletic Association: $90,000 · Recreation & SportsMARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED: $31,000 · Recreation & SportsHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsSAIL NEWPORT: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE CENTER FOR PREVENTION & COUNSELING: $50,000 · HealthSAIL TO PREVAIL: $20,000 · HealthPINK RIBBON RIDERS: $10,000 · Health7TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT CHILD ADVOCACY CTR DBA THE DOLPHIN HOUSE: $45,000 · Crime & LegalRHODE ISLAND COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $29,000 · Housing & ShelterLUCY'S HEARTH: $7,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,153,700Human Services$390,500Education$186,000Recreation & Sports$146,000Health$80,000Crime & Legal$45,000Housing & Shelter$36,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMontrose Community Foundation: $189,000 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University: $180,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSCARC FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetWesley Chapel Weddington Athletic Association: $90,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTURNING POINT INC: $65,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetBIRTH HAVEN INC: $55,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC: $50,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PREVENTION & COUNSELING: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budget7TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT CHILD ADVOCACY CTR DBA THE DOLPHIN HOUSE: $45,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $36,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST MICHAEL'S COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $35,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED: $31,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSCARC INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $29,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetHELP CENTER INC: $27,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES: $27,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHAVEN: $22,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSAIL TO PREVAIL: $20,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBENNY 'S BODEGA A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSURVIVAL CENTERS INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Methodist Homes of New Jersey Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPINK RIBBON RIDERS: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBLOOM FOR WOMEN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLUCY'S HEARTH: $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON SQUARE SERVICES CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHRIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCarbon County Arts Guild: $3,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE OF NEWPORT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTATE TROOPERS COALITION INC: $1,200 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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 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 SAIL TO PREVAIL ↗
  • Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BENNY 'S BODEGA A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds SURVIVAL CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds RED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗

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.

The Rhode Island Comm…Van Beuren Charitable…Alletta Morris McBean…Gruben Charitable Fou…Kane Wallace Foundati…Hamilton Family Found…Frederick Henry Princ…The Champlin Foundati…United Way of Rhode I…Lotz Family FoundationLyn & Margaret Comfor…Newportfed Charitable…
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI26.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Sella Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sella Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home