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Barry & Judy Silverman Foundation Inc at a glance

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Barry & Judy Silverman Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$62k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$3.2MEducation$979kReligion$242kArts & Culture$109kScience & Tech$50kHuman Services$37kPublic Benefit$35kHealth$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$930k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HILLEL OF BROWARD AND PALM BEACH$32,500
IMPACTISRAEL INC$10,000
AVENTURA TURNBERRY JEWISH CENTER$10,000
NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$5,000
JEWISH HERITAGE PROGRAMS$3,000
TEMPLE SINAI OF NORTH DADE$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%OCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%JOSHUA'S HEART FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%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

IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
CO
VA
DC
TX
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 15 repeat orgs$173k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
27

Total granted

$1.7M
$169k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+15%

Still filing today

60%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureInternationalRecreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • Nova Southeastern University Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $739k · revenue +37%
  • UO
    University of Miami
    3× · 2020–2024 · $215k · revenue +66%
  • HO
    HILLEL OF BROWARD AND PALM BEACH INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $169k · revenue +140%

Funded once

  • AS
    AMERICAN SOCIETY OF UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • PJ
    POSNAK JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI MED CTR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $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.

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Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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4
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
5
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
6
Greater Miami Hillel Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

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7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
9
B'nai Brith Hillel Foundation At Princeton

Cjl partners with students and other members of the princeton community to sustain and grow a welcoming, multi-faceted and pluralistic jewish community that is fully-integrated into the fabric of campus life and which provides personally…

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10
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
11
University of Judaism Foundation
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12
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life At the Penn State University

To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

24 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. 24 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC: $2,838,280 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC+2 more: $75,500 · PhilanthropyNova Southeastern University Inc: $738,506 · EducationNova Southeastern Unive…University of Miami: $215,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami+4 more: $29,000 · EducationAIEF: $285,100 · OtherAIEFHILLEL OF BROWARD AND PALM BEACH INC: $168,906 · OtherHILLEL OF BROWARD A…NSU ART MUSEUM FT LAUDERDALE: $96,400 · OtherNSU ART MUSEUM FT L…AVENTURA TURNBERRY JEWISH CENTER BETH JACOB INC: $96,030 · OtherAVENTURA TURNBERRY …AMERICAN SOCIETY OF UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $50,000 · OtherAMERICAN SOCIETY OF…HEART OF A NATION: $35,000 · Other+24 more: $100,580 · Other+24 moreIMPACTISRAEL INC: $20,000 · InternationalJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA: $1,000 · International+1 more: $500 · InternationalOCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesJOSHUAS HEART FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $1,700 · Arts & CultureWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $1,000 · Arts & CultureJewish Heritage Programs: $3,000 · Religion
Philanthropy$2,913,780Education$982,506Other$832,016International$21,500Human Services$15,000Arts & Culture$12,700Religion$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC: $2,838,280 over 2y, 11% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $738,506 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $215,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL OF BROWARD AND PALM BEACH INC: $168,906 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN STATE JOB LOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOSHUAS HEART FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJewish Heritage Programs: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael 21c: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $1,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE THROUGH EDUCATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Jewish Community Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY13.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Barry & Judy Silverman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barry & Judy Silverman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Pine Crest Preparatory School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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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How do I get to Barry & Judy Silverman Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Barry & Judy Silverman Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 48 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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