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Silberstein Family Foundation at a glance

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Silberstein Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$213k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$446kHealth$192kYouth Development$91kPhilanthropy$37kAnimals$36kRecreation & Sports$20kCivil Rights$17kInternational$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $99k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,281
Median grant
12
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MCDONOGH SCHOOL$50,000
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION$30,000
WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP AND LEARNING$25,000
CHILDREN'S SKIN DISEASE FOUNDATION$23,500
WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY$10,000
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND SELLINGER SCHOOL$10,000
B&O RAILROAD MUSEUM$6,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
FALLSTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$5,000
THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE$5,000
ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
CHANA$5,000
BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN$5,000
MISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$3,000
SOZO CHILDREN - GOLF TOURNAMENT$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMPASS INC: $5k → 11%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $5k → 9%TURNAROUND: $5k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
MS
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$893k · 44 repeat orgs$211k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
32

Total granted

$893k
$151k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+17%

Still filing today

75%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthAnimalsInternationalYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MS
    MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    7× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +57%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN
    8× · 2018–2025 · $108k · revenue +43%
  • WL
    WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP & LEARNING INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $88k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • DS
    DRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +46%
  • PA
    PARKS AND PEOPLE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +32%
  • M
    MERCY
    one 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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3
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
4
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
5
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
6
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
7
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
8
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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9
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
10
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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11
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
12
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 88 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
45/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $265,000 · EducationMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATEDFOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN: $108,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FO…Washington and Lee University: $60,000 · EducationWashington and Lee UniversityGERSTELL ACADEMY INC: $20,000 · Education+9 more: $40,500 · Education+9 moreChildrens Skin Disease Foundation: $83,500 · HealthChildrens Skin Dise…Mercy Health Foundation: $30,000 · HealthMercy Health Founda…ULMAN FOUNDATION INC: $24,500 · HealthULMAN FOUNDATION IN…Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $16,000 · HealthAnn & Robert H Luri…INTERSECTION OF CHANGE INC: $12,500 · HealthINTERSECTION OF CHA…Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $9,000 · Health+6 more: $19,000 · Health+6 moreTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $25,500 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH …MERCY: $20,000 · OtherMERCYCHANA RACE AGAINST ABUSE: $14,000 · OtherCHANA RACE AGAINST ABU…BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $13,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTE…Individual grant recipient: $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recip…LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND SELLINGER SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherGB Charities Inc: $7,500 · Other+42 more: $110,381 · Other+42 moreWILDERNESS LEADERSHIP & LEARNING INC: $87,500 · Recreation & SportsWILDERNESS…PARKS AND PEOPLE INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsPARKS AND …DRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEERING UNTAPPED INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyONE TAIL AT A TIME NFP: $24,000 · AnimalsPAWS CHICAGO: $4,500 · AnimalsSECOND CITY CANINE RESCUE: $3,000 · AnimalsThe Anti-Cruelty Society: $2,000 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsTHE GODFREDS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · InternationalThe Green Turtle Cay Foundation: $5,000 · InternationalCORNERSTONE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · International
Education$493,500Health$194,500Other$222,381Recreation & Sports$107,500Philanthropy$39,500Animals$34,500International$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $265,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN: $108,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetWILDERNESS LEADERSHIP & LEARNING INC: $87,500 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetChildrens Skin Disease Foundation: $83,500 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Health Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetULMAN FOUNDATION INC: $24,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetONE TAIL AT A TIME NFP: $24,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPARKS AND PEOPLE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GODFREDS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetGERSTELL ACADEMY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINTERSECTION OF CHANGE INC: $12,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGB Charities Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetB&O RAILROAD MUSEUM INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $5,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTURNAROUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Green Turtle Cay Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPARROW MINISTRIES INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $4,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for: $4,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetOFF THE STREET CLUB: $4,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND CITY CANINE RESCUE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $2,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc: $2,281 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOKIZU FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Anti-Cruelty Society: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $1,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetStella Maris Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

T Rowe Price Program …France-Merrick Founda…The Abell Foundation …The United Way of Cen…Baltimore Community F…Brown Advisory Charit…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…William L & Victorine…The Marion I & Henry …T Rowe Price Foundati…Associated Jewish Cha…Nora Roberts Foundati…
T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving IncMD25.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · William L & Victorine Q Adams Foundation Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Nora Roberts Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Silberstein Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Silberstein Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Parks and People Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Intersection of Change Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Turnaround Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • B&o Railroad Museum Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Mcdonogh School Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 88 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home