How much does Silver Family Foundation give?

Silver Family Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $3,182,693 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Silver Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (53%), Education (24%), Youth Development (15%).

Who are Silver Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Oregon Health & Science University Foundation ($27M), De la Salle North Catholic High School ($3.4M), Catlin Gabel School ($2.8M).

Does Silver Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Silver Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Silver Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust, Juan Young Trust.

Where is Silver Family Foundation based?

Silver Family Foundation is based in CT.

Foundation Dossiers

Connecticut · Private foundation

Silver Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 50
Grants FY2025: 48
Organizations funded FY2024: 15%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $40,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $500,000
Organizations funded a year: 40 to 50; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 6
Total assets, FY2025: $145M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Silver Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	50	$3.2M	14%
FY2024	48	$2.4M	15%
FY2023	46	$6.7M	13%
FY2022	50	$22M	16%
FY2021	42	$5.2M	14%
FY2020	40	$5.1M	18%
FY2019	48	$5.0M	23%
FY2018	43	$1.8M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$27MEducation$12MYouth Development$7.6MArts & Culture$2.0MHuman Services$650kEnvironment$470kCrime & Legal$442kEmployment$318kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Oregon Health & Science University Foundation	$27,290,000	6	12%
De la Salle North Catholic High School	$3,390,995	8	n/a
Catlin Gabel School	$2,787,500	6	4%
Young Life	$2,125,000	2	0%
Portland Art Museum	$1,730,000	3	3%
Friends of the Children of the Klamath Basin	$1,218,610	8	31%
Friends of the Children - Seattle	$1,010,000	8	8%
Friends of the Children-Portland	$1,000,000	8	2%
Rainier Scholars	$625,000	8	2%
Together We Are Greater Than	$525,000	8	5%

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All grantees of Silver Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Oregon Health & Science University Foundation	$27,290,000	6	12%
De la Salle North Catholic High School	$3,390,995	8	n/a
Catlin Gabel School	$2,787,500	6	4%
Young Life	$2,125,000	2	0%
Portland Art Museum	$1,730,000	3	3%
Friends of the Children of the Klamath Basin	$1,218,610	8	31%
Friends of the Children - Seattle	$1,010,000	8	8%
Friends of the Children-Portland	$1,000,000	8	2%
Rainier Scholars	$625,000	8	2%
Together We Are Greater Than	$525,000	8	5%
St Andrew Nativity School	$500,000	7	n/a
The Campbell Institute	$441,665	8	4%
Ecosystem Sciences Foundation Inc	$400,000	8	49%
Reading Results	$400,000	8	8%
Big Brothers Big Sisters Columbia Northw	$320,000	7	4%
Seattle Nativity School	$300,000	8	3%
Summer Search	$300,000	8	0%
Kairospdx	$270,000	6	2%
Rainier Athletes	$255,000	8	9%
Metropolitan Family Service	$250,000	7	1%
Camp Tamarack	$240,000	8	3%
Treehouse	$240,000	8	0%
Elevate Oregon	$210,000	7	4%
College Dreams Inc	$205,000	6	1%
Farwise Inc	$200,100	2	6%
R Merle Palmer Minority Scholarship	$195,000	6	3%
Oregon Bravo Youth Orchestras	$190,000	8	3%
Idaho Base Camp Inc	$185,000	6	3%
The Space Idaho Inc	$175,000	5	14%
Lee Pesky Learning Center Inc	$160,000	5	3%
Friends of Saturday Academy	$115,000	7	3%
The Contingent	$110,000	4	1%
Rogue Valley Mentoring	$105,000	4	4%
College Access Now	$100,000	2	2%
Rainier Prep	$100,000	4	0%
Reading Partners	$80,000	3	0%
Caldera	$75,000	3	1%
Blaine County School District No 61 Education Foundation Inc	$65,000	3	8%
Portland Community Football Club	$65,000	3	5%
Youth Villages Inc	$65,000	3	0%
Communities in Schools of Peninsula	$60,000	1	4%
Friends of the Mentor Program	$60,000	4	36%
CRISTA Ministries	$60,000	2	0%
Camp Fire Columbia	$50,000	2	1%
French International School of Oregon	$50,000	1	0%
Friends of Explorer Post 58	$50,000	6	3%
Camp Ten Trees	$50,000	3	23%
Holla	$50,000	2	3%
Fishtrap Inc	$48,000	4	3%
Social Venture Partners	$40,000	2	1%
Kids Club of Harney County	$40,000	3	4%
Community Youth Services	$35,000	2	0%
A Village for One	$35,000	1	n/a
The Mentoring Network Inc	$35,000	2	11%
Blaine County Charitable Fund Inc	$35,000	2	4%
Cristo Rey Jesuit Seattle High School	$30,000	1	0%
Portland State University Foundation	$30,000	3	0%
The Circus Project	$30,000	3	1%
The Mayfly Project	$25,000	1	3%
Point Foundation	$25,000	1	1%
Women's and Children's Crisis Shelter	$25,000	1	1%
Juma Ventures Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Silver Creek Alliance Inc	$25,000	1	10%
Citizens for Safe Schools	$25,000	1	3%
Harpers Playground	$21,000	3	1%
The Childrens Course Inc	$20,000	2	1%
Portland Center Stage	$20,000	1	0%
Reading and Math Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Refugee Womens Alliance	$10,000	1	0%
Olive Crest	$10,000	1	0%
Portland Opportunities Indust Center	$10,000	1	0%
Invest in Youth	$10,000	1	7%
Highline Schools Foundation for Excellence	$10,000	1	1%
Portland Workforce Alliance	$8,000	1	1%
Portland Backpack	$7,500	1	1%
MENTOR Washington	$5,000	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.

Silver Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 73 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 73.

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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.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR56.3× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Silver Family Foundation

How much does Silver Family Foundation give?: Silver Family Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $3,182,693 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Silver Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (53%), Education (24%), Youth Development (15%).
Who are Silver Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Oregon Health & Science University Foundation ($27M), De la Salle North Catholic High School ($3.4M), Catlin Gabel School ($2.8M).
Does Silver Family Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Silver Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Silver Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust, Juan Young Trust.
Where is Silver Family Foundation based?: Silver Family Foundation is based in CT.