· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Worldwide Friends Foundation | $25,000 |
| Belev Echad Inc | $25,000 |
| SAR Academy | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| SHALVA | $15,000 |
| Worldwide Friends Foundation | $10,000 |
| Worldwide Friends Foundation | $10,000 |
| UJA Federation of New York | $6,000 |
| SHALVA | $5,000 |
| Chabad Terror Victims Project Inc | $5,000 |
| Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Worldwide Friends Foundation | $5,000 |
| Chabad-Tzivos Hashem-Russian Division | $5,000 |
| UJA Federation of New York | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $129k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
100 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 71 since wound down; 4 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC7× · 2018–2025 · $126k · revenue +22%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES4× · 2018–2021 · $35k · revenue +41%- IGISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND8× · 2018–2025 · $34k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- SZSilver Ziegler Family Foundationone grant, 2022 · $2.8M
- YUYeshiva University - Bernard Revel Schoolone grant, 2022 · $5k
- RDRON DARLING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $4k
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.
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.
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
To support, benefit, and assist yeshivat netiv hadaat- jerusalem
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To further jewish education in israel
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
To support cancer research in israel, for the benefit of israel and all mankind.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel
How this is measured
79 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. 79 of the 140 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds Chabad Terror Victims Project Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
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- Who funds Fairleigh Dickinson University ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Louis & Martha Silver Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis & Martha Silver Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Fairleigh Dickinson University: 2% of income from government
- Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Frisch School: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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