How much does Anixter and Silva Family Foundation give?

Anixter and Silva Family Foundation reported 64 grants totaling $1,242,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Anixter and Silva Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (26%), Philanthropy (20%), Science & Tech (15%).

Who are Anixter and Silva Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($1.2M), Lester and Rosalie Anixter Center ($653k), Anti-Defamation League ($384k).

Does Anixter and Silva Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Anixter and Silva Family Foundation 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 Anixter and Silva Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.

Where is Anixter and Silva Family Foundation based?

Anixter and Silva Family Foundation is based in IL.

Anixter and Silva Family Foundation

Anixter and Silva Family Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Anixter and Silva Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$150k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$2.0MPhilanthropy$1.6MScience & Tech$1.2MArts & Culture$921kCivil Rights$465kReligion$445kHuman Services$369kFood & Nutrition$220kOther$0

02FY2024 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k30 grants · $139k
$10k–50k23 grants · $371k
$50k–250k11 grants · $733k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO	$150,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE	$80,000
ANIXTER CENTER	$75,000
ANN AND ROBERT LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL	$62,500
ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER	$60,000
AMER COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INST OF SCIENCE	$55,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM	$50,000
Northwestern Memorial Foundation	$50,000
ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND	$50,000
Eisenhower Health	$50,000
MISERICORDIA	$50,000
CJE SENIORLIFE	$35,000
JCC Chicago	$25,000
CLARION PROJECT	$25,000
CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY SERVICES	$25,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $475k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$7.4M · 58 repeat orgs$222k to everyone else

58 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.4M

$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+45%

Still filing today

74%

68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationInternationalFood & NutritionOther

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

JU
JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +13%
LA
LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $653k · revenue +4%
AL
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
8× · 2017–2024 · $384k · revenue +78%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $25k
CC
Chicago Children's Museum
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +14%
CF
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $25k

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.

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

Chicago Center for Jewish Genetic Disorders

The norton & elaine sarnoff center for jewish genetics (the center) is an educational resource for hereditary cancers and jewish genetic disorders. working closely with clergy, health care professionals, support organizations and dedicated…

Health

Leonard and Diane Sherman Family Foundation

The foundation is organized to foster, promote, support, develop, encourage and maintain the broad charitable, educational and/or religious purpose of, the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago, and the foundation as authorized in…

Philanthropy

Michael Reese Health Trust

Michael Reese partners with the Chicagoland community to advance and advocate for lasting health solutions. We do this by carrying forward the vision of Michael Reese Hospital's Jewish founders and the generations of philanthropic…

Health

The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services

National Jewish Health

National Jewish Health's mission since 1899 is to heal, discover and educate as a preeminent healthcare institution. We serve by providing the best integrated and innovative care for patients and their families; by understanding and…

Health

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

Federation amplifies our collective strength to make the world a better place for everyone. we assist people in need, impact chicagoans of all faiths; support israel and the jewish people worldwide; respond swiftly to crises; cultivate…

Philanthropy

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education

Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights

National Center for Jewish Filminc

The national center for jewish film is a unique, independent nonprofit motion picture archive, distributor, resource center and exhibitor. ncjf's ongoing mission is the collection, preservation and exhibition of films with artistic and…

Arts & Culture

The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Contemporary Art; the most unlike its peers is The Blake Kiven Family Foundation Inc. 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

71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 71 of the 96 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

69/71

Grantees still filing

49/71

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,380,237Philanthropy$1,283,115Health$804,000Arts & Culture$783,490Housing & Shelter$679,500Human Services$475,050Civil Rights$399,668

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL31.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jarvis Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Kovler Family Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Maurice & Henry Freund 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 Anixter and Silva Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anixter and Silva Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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