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Howard A Silverstein Foundation

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.

$501k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Itemized grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
44%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$473k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 9
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$5.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Howard A Silverstein Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$407k44%
FY20239$406k44%
FY20229$382kn/a
75% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$863kPhilanthropy$216kArts & Culture$120kHealth$41kHuman Services$3kInternational$2kCivil Rights$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($797k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Howard A Silverstein Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $226,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Art Fund Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSolomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Loomis Institute D/B/A the Loomis Chaffee School: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Jewish Health: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach Country Club Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York-Presbyterian Fund Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOld Oaks Foundation Inc: $850 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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About Howard A Silverstein Foundation

How much does Howard A Silverstein Foundation give?
Howard A Silverstein Foundation reported 15 itemized grants totaling $472,600, out of $501,400 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 9 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Howard A Silverstein Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (25%), Philanthropy (6%), Arts & Culture (3%).
Who are Howard A Silverstein Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($227k), Public Art Fund Inc ($100k), Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation ($20k).
Does Howard A Silverstein Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Howard A Silverstein 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.
Where is Howard A Silverstein Foundation based?
Howard A Silverstein Foundation is based in NY.

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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $293k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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