New York · Private foundation
Louis & Martha Silver Foundation Inc
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.
- $215k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 83
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Louis & Martha Silver Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $215k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $199k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $136k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $2.9M | 34% |
| FY2021 | 72 | $204k | 3% |
| FY2020 | 83 | $228k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 71 | $208k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 67 | $190k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $125,860 | 7 | 0% |
| Worldwide Friends Foundation | $120,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy | $56,200 | 7 | n/a |
| Met Council Inc | $42,200 | 7 | 15% |
| Temple Beth El of Great Neck | $37,500 | 4 | n/a |
| National Council of Young Israel | $36,150 | 7 | n/a |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind | $34,400 | 8 | 0% |
| American Friends of Bar-Ilan University | $33,600 | 8 | 0% |
| Belev Echad Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 89 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Louis & Martha Silver Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 72 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ellen and Michael Goldberg Family Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Fjc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Gelles Family Foundation · The Stanley & Vivian Bernstein Foundation · The Rosalie Katz Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego
How this is measured
Compare Louis & Martha Silver Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Louis & Martha Silver Foundation Inc
- How much does Louis & Martha Silver Foundation Inc give?
- Louis & Martha Silver Foundation Inc reported 45 grants totaling $215,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 83 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Louis & Martha Silver Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (69%), International (8%), Religion (5%).
- Who are Louis & Martha Silver Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($126k), Worldwide Friends Foundation ($120k), Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy ($56k).
- Does Louis & Martha Silver Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Louis & Martha Silver Foundation Inc 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 Louis & Martha Silver Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Ellen and Michael Goldberg Family Foundation Inc, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc.
- Where is Louis & Martha Silver Foundation Inc based?
- Louis & Martha Silver Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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