· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION | $16,500 |
| BREAST CANCER COALITION | $3,000 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER | $1,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC | $750 |
| FOODLINK INC | $650 |
| BRIGHTON FOOD CUPBOARD | $500 |
| THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES INC | $500 |
| CAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC | $500 |
| WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL | $500 |
| NATIONAL BRAILLE ASSOCIATES | $500 |
| DAVID HOCHSTEIN MEMORIAL MUSIC SCHOOL | $500 |
| MULTI-USE COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTER | $500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROCHESTER | $500 |
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 (FY19–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 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; $4k 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
- JSJEWISH SENIOR LIFE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $180k · revenue +8%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC5× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +73%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC5× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- TPTHE POWER OF ONE CAMPAIGN FOR JEWISH SENIOR LIFEone grant, 2017 · $25k
- RRROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +118%
- THTHE HARLEY SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +17%
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.
Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.
The rochester general college of health careers is dedicated to preparing adult learners with the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to pursue health careers, advanced education, and lifelong learning.
To establish, erect and maintain a general hospital and dispensary in the county of monroe, ny for medical and surgical aid, care and treatment of persons in need thereof; to carry on and conduct a training school for nurses; to promote…
The organization is organized and operated for the benefit of all of the affiliates within rochester regional health system. the organization supports and assists the affiliates by reviewing and monitoring their missions, objectives,…
Our mission is to provide skilled, compassionate, cost-effective care that promotes wellness and meets the community's healthcare needs.
See schedule oto make a positive difference in the lives and health status of individuals in the city of rochester, ny and western monroe county. we will educate our community, our providers, and future health care professionals in order…
To improve the health, well being, and quality of life of our jewish community's elderly, as well as that of our general community, being mindful of the values implicit in our jewish heritage.
To engage the community in life-long learning for all through equal access to information, technology, gathering spaces and expert staff.
To provide clean, safe, well maintained, and affordable apartments and townhouses, suitable for anyone, in many locations throughout rochester, new york.
The friendly home is a non-profit, non-denominational 200 bed nursing care and rehabilitation facility for older adults. located at 3156 east avenue in brighton, the friendly home offers a variety of health care services including 24-hour…
The mission of the rochester rhio is to provide the rochester medical service area with a system for a secure health information exchange that allows for timely access to clinical information and improved decision making. the primary goal…
The company's mission is to create new jobs, increase regional wealth, raise regional gdp and enhance opportunity; to invest in a world-class economic development ecosystem where incumbent businesses are thriving, new firms are locating,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Senior Life Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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. 21 of the 31 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 JEWISH SENIOR LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Champion Academy Extreme Mentoring & Empowerment Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER NY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds The Center for Youth Services Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FUND FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Rochester NY Inc ↗
- Who funds HER JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds The David Hochstein Memorial Music School 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: 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
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 Myron S & Helen K Silver Family 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.