· Private foundation
Bernard Silver & Betty Silver
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST LDS ASL | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,900 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER LA | $5,275 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,500 |
| BROWNIE SCOUNTS OF OWENSBORO | $550 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
17 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CCCORNERSTONE CHURCH6× · 2018–2024 · $101k
- CVCoachella Valley Mounted Rangers2× · 2023–2024 · $98k · revenue +13%
- COCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST LDS ASL3× · 2023–2025 · $72k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
- COCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDSone grant, 2022 · $15k
- OLOWENSBORO LDS CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Search and rescue of migrants stranded in the dessert providing first aid and water for their survival and guidance for safe arrival
Through feeding the hungry, support, and care, we provide redemption, recovery, and re-entry to the homeless, addicted, and those in need.
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
To attract people/resources to assist the needs of every hungry homeless person in the valley.
Since 1957, SRM has provided safe emergency shelter, meals, and clothing to anyone in need. All participants are experiencing homelessness and living below the federal poverty line at intake. Located in Flagstaff, we have three facilities.…
Covenant house is dedicated to serving all of god's children with absolute respect and unconditional love to help youth experiencing homelessness and to protect and safeguard all youth in need.
The midnight mission seeks to offer a bridge to self sufficiency for people experiencing homelessness through interim shelter, advocacy, education, training and job placement, make available the necessities of life, offer the 12-step…
Covenant house texas shelters, protects, and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, and sexually exploited youth.
To provide a sanctuary for people and animals, founded on hope and healing for the long-term recovery of trauma victims, special needs animals, and male survivors of sex trafficking.
The mission of children's haven is to provide temporary shelter to children in a safe, secure environment while their parents resolve a family crisis. each year hundreds of children ages birth through 17 years receive the nurturing care of…
Catholic charities creates access to opportunities for self-sufficiency by providing innovative and compassionate services to people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures.
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coachella Valley Mounted Rangers and the most unlike its peers is Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Coachella Valley Mounted Rangers ↗
- Who funds NARROW DOOR ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds HEAVENLY HORSE HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERPARK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds BARGAINS THRIFT SHOP INC ↗
- Who funds IDYLLWILD HELP CENTER ↗
- Who funds Owensboro Health Foundation Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bernard Silver & Betty Silver funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.