· Private foundation
The Weller Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEEMNET OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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 +18% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
82 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down; 28 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC5× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +22%
- SASPANISH AMERICAN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +18%
Fairfield University2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- ABAWARDS BANQUET FOR THE AWARD RECIPIENTSone grant, 2023 · $11k
- SHSACRED HEART DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTERone grant, 2021 · $10k
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF FAIRFIELD COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $6k
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.
The Public Library of New London is a private, not-for-profit institution that serves the needs of the New London community by providing free access to diverse ideas and information through a variety of library materials, services, and…
Our mission at The Farmington Valley Academy Montessori is to offer an excellent education characterized by intellectual rigor combined with personal warmth. Dr. Maria Montessori's principles and the insights and ideas of other gifted…
To provide educational and recreational medium to residents of the Town of New Hartford and the Mid-York Library region.
The mission of NAC is to support and promote youth swimming in both the City of Norwalk and Fairfield County. We focus on expanding learn-to-swim opportunities, team diversity, inclusion and participation in competitions and team…
The mission of the fairmount community library is to provide materials and services to help community residents obtain information meeting their personal, educational and professional needs. in addition the library seeks to support and…
A safe, loving, and inclusive learning community where children, families, and staff feel welcome, accepted, and supported and where individuals are empowered to contribute their unique experiences and interests.
The boys & girls club of greater new bedford, inc. is dedicated to providing a stimulating and wholesome environment which promotes social, educational, character and physical development for children and young adults ages 7 - 18 years.…
Fairfield PAL provides a safe and fun environment of equality that empowers and encourages youth to overcome challenges, gain self respect, respect others, discover their potential and develop a sense of belonging to their community.
Acquisiton, distribution and conservation of reading material
The mission of Latham Memorial Library is to be a community gathering place that provides universal access to information, enabling learners of all ages to enrich their lives.
Providing quality materials and services, which fulfill the educational, information, cultural and recreational needs of the entire community in an atmosphere that is welcoming and respectful.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 245 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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: Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Weller Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Weller Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Spanish American Merchants Association Inc: 31% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley: 19% of income from government
- Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
- Cyrenius H Booth Library: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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