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Silton Family Foundation

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.

$188k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$338kHousing & Shelter$204kCivil Rights$152kEducation$94kInternational$56kHuman Services$50kEnvironment$42kFood & Nutrition$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $98k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$315k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUPUS LA$26,500
DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER$25,000
UCLA$19,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$17,000
THE TREVOR PROJECT INC$10,000
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$9,500
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN$7,500
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC$7,000
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$5,500
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$4,500
WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE$4,000
LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER$4,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$3,500
CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE$3,500
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 (FY17–24, $213k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $25k → 14%MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 6%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $25k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $25k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $25k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $25k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $25k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $15k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1k → 17%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $15k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $3k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $3k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $3k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $1k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $1k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $1k → 14%PATH: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%LOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH: $2k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $2k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $2k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $2k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $1k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $2k → 14%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

ME
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
AL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$989k · 56 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
25

Total granted

$989k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+15%

Still filing today

70%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
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

  • DW
    DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +285%
  • TREVOR PROJECT INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $48k · revenue +570%
  • HR
    HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $24k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +253%
  • CC
    CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -35%
  • UF
    UCLA FOUNDATIONCHAIR'S GREATEST NEEDS - SOCIOLOGY
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
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
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
7
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
8
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
9
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…

Crime & Legal
10
California Partnership to End Domestic Violence

The organization's mission is to promote the collective voice of a diverse coalition of organizations and individuals working to eliminate all forms of domestic violence. as an advocate for sociate change, we advance our mission by…

Civil Rights
11
The International Institute On Race Equality and Human Rights

The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…

International
12
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; the most unlike its peers is Ancient Art Archive. 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

70 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. 70 of the 95 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/70
Grantees still filing
46/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UCLA: $53,000 · OtherUCLAUCLA FOUNDATIONCHAIR'S GREATEST NEE: $30,000 · OtherUCLA FOUNDATIONCHAIR'S GREATEST NEEPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $29,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODSPECIAL OLYMPICS: $25,500 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICSLA GAY LESBIAN CENTER: $23,500 · OtherLA GAY LESBIAN CENTERLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $23,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $16,500 · OtherUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $15,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $14,500 · OtherCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT: $15,000 · Other+44 more: $190,000 · Other+44 moreLUPUS LA CO EMERGE: $206,500 · HealthLUPUS LA CO EMERGE+6 more: $17,000 · Health+6 moreDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $180,000 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENT…Children of the Night: $10,500 · Human Services+7 more: $22,500 · Human Services+7 moreTREVOR PROJECT INC: $47,500 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJE…HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $24,000 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS…EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $18,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTIC…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $15,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMAT…NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $13,500 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMM…WOMEN'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK: $11,000 · Civil RightsWOMEN'S CENT…+1 more: $1,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $17,000 · InternationalWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $17,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,500 · InternationalPRINCETON IN ASIA INC: $8,500 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $7,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,500 · International+4 more: $6,500 · InternationalBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $26,500 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University: $9,500 · EducationHarmony Project: $5,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $7,500 · Crime & LegalADVOT: $7,000 · Crime & LegalENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER: $5,000 · Crime & LegalSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$435,000Health$223,500Human Services$213,000Civil Rights$130,000International$74,000Education$43,500Crime & Legal$22,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLUPUS LA CO EMERGE: $206,500 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $180,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $47,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $26,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK: $11,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetChildren of the Night: $10,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCETON IN ASIA INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANCIENT ART ARCHIVE: $7,500 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADVOT: $7,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH: $7,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS GREATER LOS ANGELES CTY(NAMI GLAC): $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHarmony Project: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetExtraordinary Families: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPATH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN THE SPOTLIGHT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBABY2BABY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLOCKSHOP: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $2,000 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.

  • Who funds LUPUS LA CO EMERGE ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK ↗
  • Who funds Children of the Night ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
  • Who funds PRINCETON IN ASIA INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ANCIENT ART ARCHIVE ↗
  • Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ADVOT ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH ↗

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 FoundationCA19.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ahmanson Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to Silton Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Silton Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 95 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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