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Silver Lining Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$81k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Health$160kArts & Culture$79kHousing & Shelter$63kEducation$61kYouth Development$59kRecreation & Sports$59kReligion$25kCrime & Legal$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $78k
$18,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WARRIOR NATIONAL FOUNDATION$45,000
TEXAS ONE FUND INC$18,000
BURKE CENTER FOR YOUTH$15,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
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 (FY18–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PROVIDENCE NETWORK: $15k → 12%PROVIDENCE NETWORK: $8k → 12%PROVIDENCE NETWORK: $8k → 12%BURKE CENTER: $8k → 10%PROVIDENCE NETWORK: $8k → 12%PROVIDENCE NETWORK: $5k → 12%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.
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$484k · 12 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
18

Total granted

$484k
$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+9%

Still filing today

42%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureReligionCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
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

  • M
    MJ&M
    2× · 2021–2022 · $141k
  • TW
    THE WARRIOR NATIONAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $70k
  • TH
    TX HERITAGE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $53k

Funded once

  • MM
    MJ M CHAMPIONS OFF THE FIELD
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • AL
    ABUNDANT LIFE SANCTUARY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • RC
    REFUGE CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +28%
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
The James Bruner Tk Ranch Inc

The james bruner-tk ranch, inc. operates personal care facilities for mentally challenged adults, licensed by the texas department of human services. the primary goal of tk ranch is to provide a safe and decent living environment for the…

Housing & Shelter
2
The Lullaby House

The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.

Youth Development
3
Artists and Musicians in Recovery
Education
4
Refuge City

Refuge city provides safe places for children in dallas / ft. worth (dfw) who have been sex trafficked or sexually exploited to achieve restoration, education, and reintegration in a family-focused environment through the love of jesus…

Human Services
5
Burke Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Dallas Mavericks Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Castle Care Community Ministries

Our mission is to end Veteran homelessness in Texas and throughout America by providing shelter, transitional living, counseling, case management, job training, and job placement.

Housing & Shelter
8
Fighting Homelessness

Fighting Homelessness is a Christ-centered ministry dedicated to uncovering and addressing the root causes of homelessness in Dallas. We believe every person is created in the image of God and deserves dignity, compassion, hope, and the…

Human Services
9
Atx Helps

ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.

Human Services
10
Tx Sports and Cultural Foundation
Public Benefit
11
The Burke Foundation Inc
—
12
Transformation Foundation of Texas Inc
Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence Network fka the Executive Network; the most unlike its peers is The Denver Street School. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MJ&M: $140,954 · OtherMJ&MTX HERITAGE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION: $52,500 · OtherTX HERITAGE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATIONTHE BURKE FOUNDATION INC: $46,000 · OtherTHE BURKE FOUNDATION INCUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXASMJ M CHAMPIONS OFF THE FIELD: $25,132 · OtherMJ M CHAMPIONS OFF THE FIELDSUNRISE HOMELESS NAVIGATION CENTER: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $20,000 · OtherTHE FIRST TEE OF WEST TX: $17,500 · OtherFIRST TEE WEST TEXAS: $15,000 · Other+13 more: $55,550 · Other+13 moreTHE WARRIOR NATIONAL FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE WARRIOR N…Champions Off the Field: $2,666 · Youth DevelopmentPROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK: $42,500 · Human ServicesPROVIDENC…BURKE CENTER: $7,500 · Human ServicesBURKE CEN…TEXAS HERITAGE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureALL ATX: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTexas One Fund Inc: $18,000 · Community ImprovementREFUGE CORPORATION: $10,000 · Crime & LegalTHE REFUGE: $10,000 · ReligionSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Education
Other$422,636Youth Development$72,666Human Services$50,000Arts & Culture$25,000Community Improvement$18,000Crime & Legal$10,000Religion$10,000Education$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE WARRIOR NATIONAL FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE BURKE FOUNDATION INC: $46,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK: $42,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE REFUGE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE DENVER STREET SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBURKE CENTER: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL ATX: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 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 THE WARRIOR NATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE NETWORK fka THE EXECUTIVE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS HERITAGE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Texas One Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds REFUGE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE REFUGE ↗
  • Who funds THE DENVER STREET SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BURKE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ALL ATX ↗
  • Who funds Champions Off the Field ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Raymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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