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Silent Foundation for the Arts

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 11
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$43k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations Silent Foundation for the Arts funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyScience & TechEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20211$10k0%
FY20205$7k80%
FY20196$23k67%
FY201811$28k82%
FY20179$51kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Youth Development$30kArts & Culture$28kRecreation & Sports$16kEducation$12kReligion$10kHealth$9kPhilanthropy$6kInternational$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
NJ
CT
CA
AZ
AR
TN
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Youth Villages Foundation Inc$30,00020%
Foundation for the AIDS Monument$25,00013%
Camp del Corazon Inc$15,00021%
Campbell Hall -Episcopal-$10,0001n/a
The Dalai Lama Foundation$5,00010%
Heifer Project International$5,00010%
Wallace Rheumatic Disease Foundation$4,00021%
Rhoda Goetz Foundation Inc$3,0003n/a
Planet Hope$3,00011%
J Craig Venter Institute$2,50010%
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Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Silent Foundation for the Arts supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYouth Villages Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for the AIDS Monument: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCamp del Corazon Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Dalai Lama Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHeifer Project International: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWallace Rheumatic Disease Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPlanet Hope: $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJ Craig Venter Institute: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe World Is Just a Book Away: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCity Hearts Kids Say Yes to the Arts la Fringe Theatre Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMcCarter Theatre Company: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hawn Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBarrow Neurological Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity Camps: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Awareness: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomeless Not Toothless: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRobert Wilson Arts Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

California Community FoundationCA15× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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About Silent Foundation for the Arts

How much does Silent Foundation for the Arts give?
Silent Foundation for the Arts reported 1 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Silent Foundation for the Arts fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Youth Development (25%), Arts & Culture (23%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
Who are Silent Foundation for the Arts's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Youth Villages Foundation Inc ($30k), Foundation for the AIDS Monument ($25k), Camp del Corazon Inc ($15k).
Does Silent Foundation for the Arts fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Silent Foundation for the Arts accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Silent Foundation for the Arts?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America.
Where is Silent Foundation for the Arts based?
Silent Foundation for the Arts is based in CA.

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 26 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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