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Silver Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $784k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNGLIFE | $500,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN SEATTLE | $250,000 |
| PORTLAND ART MUSEUM | $250,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF THE KLAMATH FALLS | $225,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN PORTLAND | $165,000 |
| DE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $125,000 |
| COLLEGE POSSIBLE | $110,000 |
| FAR AND WISE | $100,000 |
| RAINIER SCHOLARS | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL IN PENINSULA | $60,000 |
| CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE | $58,333 |
| READING RESULTS | $50,000 |
| ECOSYSTEM SCIENCES FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| ST ANDREW NAVITY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $435k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
69 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 7 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2023 · $27M · revenue +144%
CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +47%- YLYOUNG LIFE2× · 2023–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +13%
Funded once
- FIFRENCH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF OREGONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +51%
- MCMERCY CORPS ACTION CENTERone grant, 2019 · $50k
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISITERS COLUMBIA NORTHWESTone grant, 2018 · $40k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.
We believe that the strength of our community lies in its diversity. we know the power of many different voices at the table. these voices resound from the hearts and minds of our youth, who hold the keys to a just, fair and sustainable…
Founded in 1994, PSCS is a small, independent middle and high school located in the Chinatown/International District of downtown Seattle. PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum,…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Spruce Street School is a nurturing educational community that instills in a broad range of children the social, emotional, and intellectual skills for lifelong participation in a diverse society. We offer kindergarten through fifth grade…
BELONG Partners is an education equity nonprofit that believes in a future where everyone has the opportunity to thrive because they know they matter and belong. We partner with schools and organizations to build equitable communities…
We commit to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from kindergarten through high school…
The overlake school champions students and their vast potential through engaging educational experiences in a diverse and inclusive community. students are valued as multifaceted individuals and graduate with a passion for learning, ready…
Friends of the children - central oregon is a oregon based nonprofit with the mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years,…
To educate students to be exceptional learners and independent thinkers of vision, courage, and integrity.
Youth progress is a nonprofit organization that is licensed as a child caring agency (cca) to serve youth ages 12-25 in the custody of the oregon youth authority (oya) or the oregon department of human services (dhs). youth progress uses…
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Children-Portland and the most unlike its peers is Kids Club of Harney County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 96 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF THE KLAMATH BASIN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE ARE GREATER THAN ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPBELL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ECOSYSTEM SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds READING RESULTS ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS COLUMBIA NORTHW ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KAIROSPDX ↗
- Who funds RAINIER ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Service ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds CAMP TAMARACK ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE OREGON ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE DREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds FARWISE INC ↗
- Who funds R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP ↗
- Who funds OREGON BRAVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds IDAHO BASE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds LEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SATURDAY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE CONTINGENT ↗
- Who funds ROGUE VALLEY MENTORING ↗
- Who funds College Access Now ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Juan Young Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Collins Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Silver Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Citizens for Safe Schools — 100% of income from government
- Friends of the Mentor Program — 68% of income from government
- Rogue Valley Mentoring — 42% of income from government
- Portland Opportunities Indust Center — 38% of income from government
- A Village for One — 33% of income from government
- Metropolitan Family Service — 29% of income from government
- Holla — 29% of income from government
- Elevate Oregon — 28% of income from government
- College Dreams Inc — 23% of income from government
- Kairospdx — 19% of income from government
- Portland Workforce Alliance — 8% of income from government
- The Contingent — 5% of income from government
- Together We Are Greater Than — 5% of income from government
- Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
- Fishtrap Inc — 5% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Portland Center Stage — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Caldera — 1% of income from government
- The Campbell Institute — 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Catlin Gabel School — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.