· Private foundation
Louis and Mary Silver Foundation
Its FY2020 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 FY2019–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM | $22,769 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CULTURAL CENTER | $22,769 |
| COLLEGE OF THE DESERT FOUNDATION | $22,769 |
| SHELTER FROM THE STORM | $22,769 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $22,769 |
| CALIFORNIA PAWS RESCUE | $7,589 |
| ANIMAL SAMARITANS | $7,589 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PS ANIMAL SHELTER | $7,589 |
| VARIOUS RECOGNIZED CHARITIES | $200 |
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 (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +83% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- COCollege of the Desert Foundation2× · 2019–2020 · $24k · revenue +86%
SHELTER FROM THE STORM INC2× · 2019–2020 · $23k · revenue +60%- ASAnimal Samaritans2× · 2019–2020 · $9k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- MCMC CALLUM THEATREone grant, 2019 · $9k
- CVCOACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORYone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +21%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $4k
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.
We are dedicated to building a community responsible for pet stewardship and humane treatment of animals.
The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce is a regional chamber formed in 2016 to support a diverse business community that spans nearly forty-five miles and serves the needs of nearly 500,000 visitors each year. As a business…
To provide shelter and counseling for victims of domestic violence in the Barstow area.
The Palm Springs Opera Guild invites everyone in the Coachella Valley and beyond to join the Guild family and participate in its numerous programs.The Guild was established in 1968 to support and promote the operatic arts through outreach,…
To stimulate, educate, and nurture creativity in the coachella valley community through the collaborative effort of membership programs, art education, and gallery space for emerging and established artists.
The mission of the coachella valley journalism foundation is to promote and support excellent, sustainable community journalism in the coachella valley.
To serve those in need by sharing the saving grace of jesus christ through the provision of food, shelter, clothing, and spiritual recovery. and a place where daily physical and spiritual needs may be met.
The Culver City Symphony Orchestra strives to enlighten and inspire the diverse citizenry of Culver City and the Los Angeles area through the presentation of orchestral music concerts, to present works of American composers, and to…
We foster reverence for life, relief of suffering, and compassion in loss for the terminally ill residents and their families in the communities we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coachella Valley Repertory and the most unlike its peers is Galilee Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 21 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 PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds College of the Desert Foundation ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FROM THE STORM INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Cultural Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Animal Samaritans ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA PAWS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE DESERT SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds ACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds LIVING DESERT THE ↗
- Who funds Cove Communities Senior Association DBA The Joslyn Center ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds GALILEE CENTER 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: Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation · The Auen Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · Inland Empire Community Foundation · The Galen Family Foundation · Charity Works · Houston Family Foundation · The Champions Volunteer Foundation · HN and Frances C Berger Foundation · Coachella Valley Wellness Foundation · Desert Community 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 Louis and Mary Silver Foundation 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.
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