Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Schwab-Silfen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $801k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 121
- Grants FY2025
- 121
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $127,216
- Organizations funded a year
- 74 to 121
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Schwab-Silfen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k 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 | 114 | $648k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 121 | $500k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 114 | $508k | 54% |
| FY2022 | 92 | $435k | 84% |
| FY2018 | 79 | $389k | 56% |
| FY2017 | 74 | $329k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $227,216 | 3 | 0% |
| Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc | $196,300 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Maryland College Park Foundation Inc | $116,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $91,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Michigan | $65,000 | 3 | 12% |
| The Aubri Brown Club | $63,900 | 3 | 6% |
| The Harold and Carole Pump Foundation (Fka the Harold Pump Foundation) | $45,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Beth El Temple | $34,725 | 4 | n/a |
| Ladylike Foundation | $32,500 | 5 | 1% |
| The Jonothan Ogden Foundation | $27,500 | 4 | 9% |
Show all 178 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 175 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Schwab-Silfen 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: 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
How this is measured
About Schwab-Silfen Foundation
- How much does Schwab-Silfen Foundation give?
- Schwab-Silfen Foundation reported 121 grants totaling $801,087 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 74 and 121 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Schwab-Silfen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (13%), Philanthropy (13%), Recreation & Sports (9%).
- Who are Schwab-Silfen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Birthright Israel Foundation ($227k), Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc ($196k), University of Maryland College Park Foundation Inc ($116k).
- Does Schwab-Silfen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Schwab-Silfen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Schwab-Silfen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Foundation for Enhancing Communities, United Way of the Capital Region, John Crain Kunkel Foundation.
- Where is Schwab-Silfen Foundation based?
- Schwab-Silfen Foundation is based in PA.
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