How much does Silva Weiss Family Foundation give?

Silva Weiss Family Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $220,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Silva Weiss Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (25%), Arts & Culture (21%), Philanthropy (20%).

Who are Silva Weiss Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Bring on the Music Inc ($228k), Pueblo Nuevo Education and Development G ($190k), Camino Nuevo Charter Academy ($65k).

Does Silva Weiss Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Silva Weiss Family Foundation 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 Silva Weiss Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles.

Where is Silva Weiss Family Foundation based?

Silva Weiss Family Foundation is based in CA.

Silva Weiss Family Foundation

Silva Weiss Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Silva Weiss 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.

$221k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$40k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$378kArts & Culture$323kPhilanthropy$304kHealth$135kCivil Rights$123kPublic Benefit$53kEmployment$42kEnvironment$33kOther$0

02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k22 grants · $66k
$10k–50k10 grants · $155k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SILVERLAKE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC	$40,000
VASSAR COLLEGE	$25,000
PUEBLO NUEVO EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT GROUP	$15,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS	$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$10,000
PROPUBLICA	$10,000
TIDES FOUNDATION	$10,000
WOMENS DONOR NETWORK	$10,000
LHF	$10,000
DKT INTERNATIONAL	$10,000
REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND LEGAL SERVICES	$5,000
ACCELERATE CHANGE	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
CHIRLA	$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$5,000

02The need

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, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.0M · 36 repeat orgs$283k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$234k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+15%

Still filing today

69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsHealthEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

BO
BRING ON THE MUSIC INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $228k · revenue +90%
PN
PUEBLO NUEVO EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT G
5× · 2019–2024 · $190k · revenue +41%
VC
VASSAR COLLEGE
5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +43%

Funded once

CN
CAMINO NUEVO CHARTER ACADEMYgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $65k · revenue +56%
MF
MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -11%
VOCES DE LA FRONTERA INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +42%

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.

California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

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California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement

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

National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education

Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture

California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech

The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education

Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health

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

Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education

Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc; the most unlike its peers is Unatti Foundation. 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

66 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. 66 of the 93 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

64/66

Grantees still filing

40/66

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$545,500Other$408,000Philanthropy$254,700Civil Rights$149,000Arts & Culture$70,375Health$69,000International$33,250

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.

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 FoundationCA32.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Liberty Hill Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Groundswell Fund · New Venture Fund

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 Silva Weiss Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Silva Weiss Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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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