· Private foundation
Schwab-Silfen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k104 grants · $198k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $262k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $341k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $127,216 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER | $113,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF | $50,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $37,800 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $30,000 |
| THE AUBRI BROWN CLUB | $29,400 |
| THE PUMP FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SECOND ROUND FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA CHAMBER OF BUSINESS | $25,000 |
| TURTLE ATHLETIC FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BETH EL TEMPLE | $15,900 |
| MAKE-A-WISH SOUTHERN FLORIDA | $14,000 |
| COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE JONATHAN ODGEN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +20% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
137 repeat relationships — 74 still active in FY2025, 63 since wound down; 40 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k 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
- CRCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $196k · revenue +0%
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $116k · revenue +72%- UOUniversity of Michigan3× · 2017–2023 · $65k · revenue +202%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF GTR HBGone grant, 2022 · $135k
- WCWHITAKER CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND THE ARTSone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -8%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.
The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…
The mission of the wistar institute is to marshal the talents of outstanding scientists through a highly enabled culture of biomedical collaboration and innovation in order to solve some of the world's most challenging and important…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Philadelphia jewish film and medias mission is to educate and engage diverse philadelphia communities, jewish and non-jewish alike, by presenting world-class film premieres, repertory cinema, and associated programs that are inspired by…
To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wny Heroes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Amy's Yard Sale Foundation. 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.
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 24 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
164 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. 164 of the 368 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
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
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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARRISBURG ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds THE AUBRI BROWN CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD AND CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION (FKA THE HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION) ↗
- Who funds LADYLIKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JONOTHAN OGDEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds WHITAKER CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Fairleigh Dickinson University ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIXERS YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
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: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · United Way of the Capital Region · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · McCormick Family Fdn Agent 80397 · Kenneth Bankert Foundation Inc · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation · Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals · Members 1st Charitable Foundation · Community Aid Inc · Miter Charitable 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 Schwab-Silfen 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.
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
- Rider University — 1% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc — 0% of income from government
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.