· 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.
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 $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $80,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $80,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $55,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC | $30,000 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $25,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC | $25,000 |
| UNITED STATES ASSOCIATION FOR UNHCR | $25,000 |
| RIVERKEEPER INC | $20,000 |
| HARTLEY HOUSE | $15,000 |
| A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE INC | $15,000 |
| GREENPEACE FUND INC | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM INC | $10,000 |
| ADOPT-A-NATIVE-ELDER | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- EUEmory University5× · 2020–2025 · $380k · revenue +54%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $300k · revenue +37%- RIRIVERKEEPER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $252k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- GHGROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +31%
FRESH AIR FUNDone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +16%
THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INCone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +5%
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groundwork Hudson Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Spring Lake Productions Inc. 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 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 29 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 Emory University ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds DEKALB MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SPRING LAKE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HARTLEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM ↗
- Who funds A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds RIVERTOWNS ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Native American Heritage Association ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds My Sisters Place Inc ↗
- Who funds Adopt-A-Native Elder ↗
- Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WAVE HILL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds I-PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
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 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
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 Lining Private 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- I-Park Foundation Inc — 10% 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.