New York · Private foundation
Myron S & Helen K Silver Family 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.
- $28k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $601k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Myron S & Helen K Silver Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 16 | $28k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $23k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $17k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $29k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $33k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $27k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $21k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $79k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Senior Life Foundation Inc | $179,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Rochester Inc | $16,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Champion Academy Extreme Mentoring & Empowerment Initiative Inc | $13,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Rochester Regional Health Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester Inc | $3,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Camp Good Days and Special Times Inc | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service of Rochester Inc | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Harley School | $2,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Willow Domestic Violence Center of Greater Rochester Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($49k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Myron S & Helen K Silver Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · Michael and Deborah Gordon Charitable Foundation Inc · CornellWeinstein Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Myron S & Helen K Silver Family Foundation
- How much does Myron S & Helen K Silver Family Foundation give?
- Myron S & Helen K Silver Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $28,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Myron S & Helen K Silver Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (57%), Human Services (17%), Youth Development (11%).
- Who are Myron S & Helen K Silver Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Senior Life Foundation Inc ($180k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Rochester Inc ($17k), Champion Academy Extreme Mentoring & Empowerment Initiative Inc ($14k).
- Does Myron S & Helen K Silver Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Myron S & Helen K Silver Family Foundation 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 Myron S & Helen K Silver Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rochester Area Community Foundation, Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation, Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation.
- Where is Myron S & Helen K Silver Family Foundation based?
- Myron S & Helen K Silver Family Foundation is based in NY.
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