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.

Silver Lining Private Foundation

Silver Lining Private Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$80k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$757kEducation$505kCivil Rights$200kArts & Culture$150kInternational$123kHuman Services$115kHealth$78kPhilanthropy$50kOther$0

02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k7 grants · $26k
$10k–50k11 grants · $215k
$50k–250k3 grants · $215k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$250k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
EMORY UNIVERSITY	$80,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY	$80,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY	$55,000
NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND	$30,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC	$30,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC	$25,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND	$25,000
UNITED STATES ASSOCIATION FOR UNHCR	$25,000
RIVERKEEPER INC	$20,000
A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE INC	$15,000
HARTLEY HOUSE	$15,000
UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM INC	$10,000
GREENPEACE FUND INC	$10,000
ADOPT-A-NATIVE-ELDER	$10,000
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC	$5,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.0M · 25 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+16%

Still filing today

92%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalCrime & 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

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Emory University
5× · 2020–2025 · $380k · revenue +54%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $300k · revenue +37%
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RIVERKEEPER INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $252k · revenue +34%

Funded once

GH
GROUNDWORK HUDSON VALLEY INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +31%
FRESH AIR FUND
one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +16%
THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +5%

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.

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Inc

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).

Environment

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal

The Adirondack Council Inc

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…

Environment

Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports

Cdp North America Inc

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…

Environment

Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

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…

Environment

World Resources Institute

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…

International

Rainforest Foundation Inc

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.

Environment

National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groundwork Hudson Valley Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/28

Grantees still filing

23/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$673,970Education$580,000International$173,000Civil Rights$150,000Arts & Culture$149,800Human Services$134,500Other$180,500

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

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.

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 New York Community TrustNY13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home