Delaware · Private foundation
Silver Lining Private 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.
- $456k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $250k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Silver Lining Private Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $401k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $260k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $264k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $307k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $225k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $170k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $161k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $171k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emory University | $380,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $300,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Riverkeeper Inc | $252,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Native American Rights Fund Inc | $150,000 | 8 | 0% |
| United States Association for UNHCR | $123,000 | 7 | 0% |
| American Indian College Fund | $117,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Spring Lake Productions Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 25% |
| Dekalb Medical Center | $75,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Hartley House Inc | $60,000 | 5 | 3% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $54,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($11k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Silver Lining Private Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Silver Lining Private Foundation
- How much does Silver Lining Private Foundation give?
- Silver Lining Private Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $455,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Silver Lining Private Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (37%), Education (25%), Civil Rights (10%).
- Who are Silver Lining Private Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Emory University ($380k), Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($300k), Riverkeeper Inc ($252k).
- Does Silver Lining Private Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Silver Lining Private 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 Silver Lining Private Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Silver Lining Private Foundation based?
- Silver Lining Private Foundation is based in DE.
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