· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $124k
- $10k–50k63 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k114 grants · $13M
- $250k+56 grants · $29M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY HARVEST INC | $1,550,000 |
| CITIZENS FOR RESP & ETHICS IN WASHINGTON (CREW) | $1,250,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $1,250,000 |
| PBS NEWSHOUR | $1,100,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $1,100,000 |
| BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $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 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK | $575,000 |
| GROW NYC | $575,000 |
| ABORTION CARE NETWORK | $570,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $550,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +39%
EARTHJUSTICE5× · 2021–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +49%
CITY HARVEST INC6× · 2020–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +3%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR TECH AND CIVIC LIFEone grant, 2020 · $1.5M
- EOEXECUTIVE OFFICER VOTER PARTICIPATIONone grant, 2020 · $1.3M
- RTRESET TECHone grant, 2024 · $600k
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.
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
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…
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.
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,…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
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.
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…
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…
Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.
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…
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…
Nyceec's mission is to deliver financing solutions and advance markets for energy efficiency and clean energy in communities.
How this is measured
313 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marty and Dorothy Silverman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marty and Dorothy Silverman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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