· Private foundation
Schwab-Silfen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +20% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
138 repeat relationships: 74 still active in FY2025, 64 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
164 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. 164 of the 360 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 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 JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds THE JONOTHAN OGDEN FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Schwab-Silfen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schwab-Silfen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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