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Silver Mountain Foundation for the Arts

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
69
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$3.2MInternational$1.8MEducation$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.1MMembership Benefit$1.0MCivil Rights$434kEnvironment$408kOther$0
02FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k41 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $390k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $180k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Save the Children$1,000,000
NPR$80,000
Planned Parenthood Federation Of America$50,000
Salisbury Housing Committee$50,000
The Climate Reality Project$25,000
Oceana$25,000
Fredonia College Foundation$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Vassar College$25,000
New York Women in Film & Television$25,000
Lakeville Journal Foundation$20,000
Capital & Main$20,000
Partners in Health$20,000
International Rescue Committee$20,000
Duke University$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Women's Support Services: $1k → 9%Women's Support Services: $1k → 9%Women's Support Services: $1k → 9%Hearts Of The Father Outreach: $5k → 12%Project Sage: $1k → 9%Hearts Of The Father Outreach: $5k → 12%Hearts Of The Father Outreach: $5k → 12%Hearts Of The Father Outreach: $5k → 12%Hearts Of The Father Outreach: $5k → 12%Salisbury Family Service: $5k → 9%Women's Refugee Commission: $50k → 17%Women's Refugee Commission: $20k → 17%Housatonic Child Care Center: $1k → 9%Housatonic Child Care Center: $1k → 9%Housatonic Child Care Center: $1k → 9%Housatonic Child Care Center: $1k → 9%Housatonic Child Care Center: $1k → 9%New York Women's Foundation: $25k → 17%New York Women's Foundation: $25k → 17%New York Women's Foundation: $10k → 17%New York Women's Foundation: $10k → 17%Project Sage: $1k → 9%Women In Need: $2k → 17%Women In Need: $2k → 17%Women In Need: $2k → 17%Women In Need: $2k → 17%Women In Need: $2k → 17%Women's Refugee Commission: $10k → 17%The Innocence Project: $60k → 17%The Innocence Project: $10k → 17%The Innocence Project: $10k → 17%The Innocence Project: $10k → 17%The Innocence Project: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.0M · 79 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

79 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
21

Total granted

$7.0M
$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+21%

Still filing today

77%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthCivil RightsOther

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

  • VC
    VASSAR COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $906k · revenue +43%
  • NW
    NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM
    4× · 2021–2024 · $355k · revenue +25%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $295k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +21%
  • TA
    THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -24%
  • Feeding Americagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +40%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
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
4
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
5
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
6
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
7
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
8
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
9
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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10
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
11
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ms Foundation for Women Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Pregnancy Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Christian Missionary Organi…Community Arts CentersVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Affordable Housing Developm…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Domestic Violence ServicesCancer Support ServicesPublic Library OperationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …Youth Sports ProgramsDance Arts OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsFood Banks and Pantries
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%34%35–55yr16%36%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/82
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,483

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.

04the grantee network

80 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. 80 of the 106 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/80
Grantees still filing
53/80
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND — $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN…NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM — $355,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUS…CAPITAL & MAIN — $190,000 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL & MAIN+14 more — $525,140 · Arts & Culture+14 moreSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,000,000 · InternationalSave The Children Fede…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,000,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN …International Rescue Committee INC — $295,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue C…+7 more — $140,000 · International+7 moreVASSAR COLLEGE — $906,000 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGEGoFundMeorg - FBO Times Up — $200,000 · OtherGoFundMeorg - FBO Times UpTimes Up — $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $133,000 · OtherNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC — $125,000 · OtherInternational Consortium Investigative Journalists — $125,000 · OtherTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION — $150,000 · OtherOCEANA INC — $125,000 · Other+54 more — $1,450,500 · Other+54 moreFeeding America — $1,000,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding Am…CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $150,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-…+1 more — $13,000 · Food & NutritionTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $1,000,000 · Membership BenefitTHE ACTOR…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $200,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $170,000 · HealthThe Danbury Hospital — $100,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $40,000 · HealthSALISBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERV — $25,000 · Health+3 more — $25,000 · HealthCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC — $200,000 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $75,000 · Civil RightsCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND — $75,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $50,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $10,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$3,070,140International$2,435,000Other$3,364,500Food & Nutrition$1,163,000Membership Benefit$1,000,000Health$560,000Civil Rights$410,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND — $2,000,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFeeding America — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE — $906,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM — $355,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $295,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC — $200,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $200,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL & MAIN — $190,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $170,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION — $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $150,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC — $125,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetOCEANA INC — $125,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $100,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Danbury Hospital — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLJMN Media Inc — $90,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC — $80,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SALISBURY ASSOCIATION INC — $75,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION — $55,140 over 1y, 20% of budgetEUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKAGENO WORLDWIDE INC — $50,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALISBURY HOUSING COMMITTEE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFREDONIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC — $50,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetEquality Now Inc — $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITERARY CLASSICS OF THE US INC D/B/A LIBRARY OF AMERICA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEARTS OF THE FATHER OUTREACH INC — $25,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPUS 118 HARLEM SCHOOL OF MUSIC — $25,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSALISBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERV — $25,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetNew DramatistsInc — $17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

Berkshire Taconic Com…Findlay Family Founda…Middle Road FoundationNorthwest Connecticut…Anne and Rollin Bates…Block Family Foundati…Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…Steven Aresty Foundat…The Bok Family Founda…Elliott Family Founda…The Kurtz Family Foun…
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA31.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Findlay Family Foundation · Middle Road Foundation · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Anne and Rollin Bates Foundation Inc · Block Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Steven Aresty Foundation · The Bok Family Foundation · Elliott Family Foundation Inc · The Kurtz Family Foundation Inc

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 Mountain Foundation for the Arts 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Salisbury Housing Committee Inc — 70% of income from government
  • The Salisbury Association Inc — 54% of income from government
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
  • Housatonic Valley Association Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Housatonic Youth Service Bureau Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc — 7% of income from government
  • The Artist Book Foundation — 3% of income from government
  • Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Pilobolus Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Danbury Hospital — 1% of income from government
  • Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Silver Mountain Foundation for the Arts?

Find your warmest path to Silver Mountain Foundation for the Arts through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 106 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home