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Marty and Dorothy Silverman 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.

$43M
Granted FY2025still arriving
264
Grants FY2025still arriving
22
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Public Benefit$19MEnvironment$18MHealth$16MCivil Rights$14MInternational$12MCrime & Legal$9.1MHuman Services$8.8MFood & Nutrition$7.0MOther$0
02FY2025 · 264 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $124k
  • $10k–50k63 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k114 grants · $13M
  • $250k+56 grants · $29M
$75,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$510M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY HARVEST INC$1,550,000
EARTHJUSTICE$1,250,000
CITIZENS FOR RESP & ETHICS IN WASHINGTON (CREW)$1,250,000
PBS NEWSHOUR$1,100,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$1,100,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION$1,100,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$1,100,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$1,005,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000,000
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO (NPR)$1,000,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND$900,000
GROW NYC$575,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK$575,000
ABORTION CARE NETWORK$570,000
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$550,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $9.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $255k → 13%QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $180k → 13%QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $130k → 13%QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $130k → 13%BRONX WORKS: $260k → 28%BRONX WORKS: $133k → 28%QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $138k → 13%BRONX WORKS: $105k → 28%BRONX WORKS: $98k → 28%BRONX WORKS: $93k → 28%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $110k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $95k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $95k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $95k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $75k → 17%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $250k → 14%SAFE HORIZON: $222k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $200k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $195k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $165k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $150k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES: $103k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES: $103k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES: $65k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES: $62k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $60k → 17%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $300k → 17%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $75k → 17%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $60k → 17%YM YWHA OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS AND INWOOD: $58k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $100k → 17%SEARCH AND CARE: $75k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $85k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $65k → 17%DOROT INC: $216k → 17%DOROT INC: $216k → 17%DOROT INC: $190k → 17%DOROT INC: $180k → 17%DOROT INC: $180k → 17%DOROT INC: $180k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $300k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $125k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $285k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $75k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $70k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $65k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $60k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $60k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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VT
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$115M · 292 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

292 repeat relationships — 217 still active in FY2025, 75 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

292
99

Total granted

$115M
$8.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+22%

Still filing today

78%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCivil RightsEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +39%
  • EARTHJUSTICE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +49%
  • CITY HARVEST INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR TECH AND CIVIC LIFE
    one grant, 2020 · $1.5M
  • EO
    EXECUTIVE OFFICER VOTER PARTICIPATION
    one grant, 2020 · $1.3M
  • RT
    RESET TECH
    one grant, 2024 · $600k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
2
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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3
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
4
New York Restoration Project

New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…

Environment
5
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
6
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
7
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
8
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
9
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
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
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
12
New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation

Nyceec's mission is to deliver financing solutions and advance markets for energy efficiency and clean energy in communities.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voter Registration Project and the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPregnancy Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Immigrant Worker SupportJewish Community Organizati…Food Banks and PantriesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Developmental Disabilities …Local Food System Organizat…Affordable Housing Construc…Military Veterans SupportOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Public Library OperationsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community Arts CentersCancer Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterIndependent K-12 SchoolsYouth Development ServicesSenior Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsHealth Access Advocacy and …Affordable Housing Developm…Community FoundationsDomestic Violence Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr13%40%35–55yr16%21%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.3%1/317
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,443

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

313 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. 313 of the 438 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
48
Early backer (in before they grew)
311/313
Grantees still filing
196/313
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $7,000,000 · OtherALBANY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONCITIZENS FOR RESP & ETHICS IN WASHINGTON — $2,555,000 · OtherCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $2,440,000 · Other+109 more — $54,909,320 · Other+109 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $3,804,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS…NEW ISRAEL FUND — $1,859,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FU…HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST — $1,425,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS …HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $1,390,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS …INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $1,291,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL…International Rescue Committee INC — $1,288,500 · InternationalInternational…WITNESS INC — $980,000 · InternationalWITNESS INCTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $920,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF …OXFAM-AMERICA INC — $537,500 · International+3 more — $919,500 · International+3 moreEARTHJUSTICE — $3,250,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTI…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $2,775,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RE…COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $1,195,000 · EnvironmentCOUNCIL ON…NEW VENTURE FUND — $875,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTUR…350ORG — $725,000 · Environment350ORGFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $682,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF…+7 more — $1,517,000 · Environment+7 moreTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $1,900,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER…NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION — $950,000 · Civil RightsNEW YORK …THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $675,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTE…ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE — $645,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE …FARMWORKER JUSTICE FUND INC — $572,464 · Civil RightsFARMWORKE…Fair Elections Center — $390,000 · Civil RightsPREGNANCY JUSTICE INC — $375,000 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC — $350,000 · Civil RightsINDIVISIBLE CIVICS — $350,000 · Civil Rights+17 more — $3,802,500 · Civil Rights+17 moreDOROT INC — $1,162,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HORIZON INC — $932,100 · Human ServicesQUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE — $832,500 · Human ServicesIRCS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC — $750,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC — $715,000 · Human ServicesBRONXWORKS INC — $688,535 · Human ServicesASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC — $550,000 · Human ServicesLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $470,000 · Human ServicesTHE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC — $417,000 · Human ServicesMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $395,000 · Human ServicesUNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $385,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $335,000 · Human Services+8 more — $1,764,500 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,825,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $1,320,000 · HealthABORTION CARE NETWORK — $620,000 · HealthREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACCESS PROJECT INC — $575,000 · HealthMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER — $572,229 · HealthMEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC — $341,800 · HealthBLUE MOUNTAIN CLINIC INC — $322,500 · HealthTHE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE — $265,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC — $245,000 · Health+4 more — $757,500 · HealthCITY HARVEST INC — $2,870,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $1,750,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD & WATER WATCH — $752,500 · Food & NutritionNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY — $257,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$66,904,320International$14,414,500Environment$11,019,000Civil Rights$10,009,964Human Services$9,396,635Health$6,844,029Food & Nutrition$5,630,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $3,804,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $3,250,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $2,870,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $2,775,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $2,440,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $2,220,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $1,900,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $1,859,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,825,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $1,750,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $1,535,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST — $1,425,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $1,390,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $1,320,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGovernment Accountability Project — $1,310,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetNEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC — $1,300,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $1,291,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $1,288,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $1,195,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetDOROT INC — $1,162,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,155,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNew York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc — $1,140,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC — $1,115,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $1,095,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWITNESS INC — $980,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetNEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION — $950,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSAFE HORIZON INC — $932,100 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $920,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $917,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $875,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetQUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE — $832,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $820,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION — $787,500 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH — $752,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetIRCS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC — $750,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $726,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budget350ORG — $725,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS — $724,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC — $715,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNEW ECONOMY PROJECT INC — $706,800 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetBRONXWORKS INC — $688,535 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $682,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $675,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMARIA COLLEGE — $665,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC — $662,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE — $645,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $625,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetCARTER BURDEN NETWORK INC — $625,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budget
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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Government Accountability Project ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds DOROT INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc ↗
  • Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds WITNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HORIZON INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗

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.

The New York Communit…Robin Hood FoundationThe Ford FoundationThe Hyde and Watson F…Altman FoundationThe Fan Fox and Lesli…Amalgamated Charitabl…The Scherman Foundati…Wellspring Philanthro…Lily Auchincloss Foun…New York FoundationMother Cabrini Health…
The New York Community TrustNY68.8× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Robin Hood Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Altman Foundation · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Scherman Foundation Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · New York Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc

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 Marty and Dorothy Silverman 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Power Forward Communities Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Adamah Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
53report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Marty and Dorothy Silverman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Marty and Dorothy Silverman Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 438 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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