New York · Private foundation
Benedict Silverman 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.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $57,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,010,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $37M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Benedict Silverman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $593k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 9 | $2.6M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $2.7M | 43% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $1.6M | 56% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $2.8M | 93% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $2.6M | 91% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $1.5M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literacy Trust Inc | $5,880,300 | 5 | 84% |
| Research Foundation of the City University of New York | $2,027,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Reading Institute | $2,010,000 | 1 | 96% |
| Teachers College Columbia University | $789,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Fund for the City of New York Inc | $500,000 | 4 | 0% |
| South Asian Council for Social Services Inc | $489,500 | 4 | 5% |
| Success for All Foundation Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Elijahs Promise Inc | $277,960 | 3 | 4% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $250,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Brooklyn College Foundation Inc | $191,665 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($860k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Benedict Silverman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Robin Hood Foundation · The Wenden Foundation · The Kestrel Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Benedict Silverman Foundation
- How much does Benedict Silverman Foundation give?
- Benedict Silverman Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $2,621,808 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Benedict Silverman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (86%), Food & Nutrition (4%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are Benedict Silverman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Literacy Trust Inc ($5.9M), Research Foundation of the City University of New York ($2.0M), The Reading Institute ($2.0M).
- Does Benedict Silverman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Benedict Silverman 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 Benedict Silverman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Robin Hood Foundation, The Wenden Foundation, The Kestrel Foundation.
- Where is Benedict Silverman Foundation based?
- Benedict Silverman Foundation is based in NY.
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