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Kenneth and Claudia Silverman Family Foundation at a glance

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Kenneth and Claudia Silverman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$5.8MEducation$444kReligion$340kInternational$140kArts & Culture$92kHuman Services$77kRecreation & Sports$69kFood & Nutrition$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$12,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$1,050,000
MOUNT SINAI DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY$250,000
MT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$64,600
CHABAD HOUSE - LUBAVITCH INC$50,000
NYU FACES$30,000
YAMBA MALAWI$25,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$12,500
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$10,000
RILEYS DANCE$10,000
THE WILLOW SCHOOL$10,000
CNY MEMORIAL STAIR CLIMB$6,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE$5,400
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING$1,000
TUNNELS TO TOWERS$800
02The need
03

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 (FY18–24, $174k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $5k → 16%COORDINATED FAMILY CARE: $1k → 8%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $5k → 16%OPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC: $10k → 16%OPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC: $5k → 16%YAMBA MALAWI: $25k → 17%OPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC: $5k → 16%YAMBA MALAWI: $25k → 17%YAMBA MALAWI: $25k → 17%YAMBA MALAWI: $25k → 17%YAMBA MALAWI: $25k → 17%YAMBA MALAWI: $15k → 17%CHILTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $3k → 4%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

NY
MA
PA
NJ
VA
TN
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.9M · 31 repeat orgs$160k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
35

Total granted

$6.9M
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+28%

Still filing today

58%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +58%
  • TG
    THE GILL ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL
    5× · 2018–2023 · $178k · revenue +17%
  • Bucknell University
    4× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • FF
    Foundation for Morristown Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +28%
  • TJ
    THE JUSTIN GIMELSTOB CHILDREN'S FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • NB
    NEWARK BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATOIN
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
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.

1
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
9
Isabella Geriatric Center Inc

Operating as isabella center for rehabilitation and nursing care, isabella is a 705-bed not-for-profit organization that is a member of the mjhs health system family. isabella is committed to providing exceptional short-term, sub-acute…

Human Services
10
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
11
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
12
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Riley's Dance 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

41 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. 41 of the 70 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/41
Grantees still filing
31/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $4,031,267 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAITHE GILL ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL: $177,581 · Education+5 more: $140,000 · EducationMORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER: $1,125,666 · OtherMORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTERMOUNT SINAI DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY: $375,000 · OtherMOUNT SINAI DEPARTMENT OF SURGERYCHABAD HOUSE - LUBAVITCH INC: $340,000 · OtherCHABAD HOUSE - LUBAVITCH INCNYU FACES: $105,000 · Other+36 more: $316,800 · Other+36 moreYAMBA MALAWI INC: $140,000 · Human ServicesOPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC: $10,800 · Human Services+2 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesThe Summit Medical Group Foundation Inc: $58,650 · HealthOVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $25,000 · HealthRILEY'S DANCE INC: $12,500 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $7,000 · HealthMyasthenia Gravis Foundation of America Inc: $6,000 · Health+7 more: $12,000 · HealthISRAEL SPORTS & CULTURAL EXCHANGE INC: $63,000 · Youth DevelopmentCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $30,000 · Food & NutritionJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $12,500 · PhilanthropyECLC FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Education$4,348,848Other$2,262,466Human Services$174,300Health$171,150Youth Development$63,000Food & Nutrition$30,000Philanthropy$22,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $4,031,267 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GILL ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL: $177,581 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYAMBA MALAWI INC: $140,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetBucknell University: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL SPORTS & CULTURAL EXCHANGE INC: $63,000 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetThe Summit Medical Group Foundation Inc: $58,650 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetOVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WILLOW SCHOOL INC: $32,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRILEY'S DANCE INC: $12,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC: $10,800 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCreature Comfort Pet Therapy: $6,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBernardsville Law Enforcement Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetMyasthenia Gravis Foundation of America Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERNARDSVILLE FIRE COMPANY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL STARS PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECLC FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEW JERSEY SEEDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLICE UNITY TOUR INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 22 PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetChilton Medical Center Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECTRUM360: $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF CAMDEN COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOORDINATED FAMILY CARE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPILLAR CARE CONTINUUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EMMANUEL CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC: $250 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.

  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds THE GILL ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds YAMBA MALAWI INC ↗
  • Who funds Bucknell University ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL SPORTS & CULTURAL EXCHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Summit Medical Group Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds OVERLOOK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE WILLOW SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds RILEY'S DANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds Creature Comfort Pet Therapy ↗
  • Who funds Bernardsville Law Enforcement Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America Inc ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds BERNARDSVILLE FIRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL STARS PROJECT INC ↗

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.

Investors Foundation …The Hyde and Watson F…Community Foundation …Ej Grassmann TrustColumbia Bank Foundat…Bristol-Myers Squibb …Citizens Philanthropi…Jewish Community Foun…Oceanfirst FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Verizon Foundation
Investors Foundation IncNJ21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Investors Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Ej Grassmann Trust · Columbia Bank Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Oceanfirst Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Verizon 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 Kenneth and Claudia Silverman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenneth and Claudia Silverman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Opportunity Project Inc: 6% of income from government
  • The Arc of Camden County Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Pillar Care Continuum: 1% of income from government
  • Creature Comfort Pet Therapy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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 70 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.

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