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Silvera Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$117k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$26k
Largest
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 FY20172024.

Education$328kReligion$204kArts & Culture$80kInternational$48kHealth$29kMembership Benefit$16kPhilanthropy$9kHuman Services$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $78k
$525
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAMAZ SCHOOL$25,557
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION$24,600
CONGREGATION KEHILATH JESHURUN$17,958
BROWN UNIVERSITY$10,000
COLEL CHABAD$5,155
TEMPLE EMANUEL$5,010
SHEFA SCHOOL$3,830
92ND STREET Y$3,027
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$2,600
EDMOND J SAFRA SYNAGOGUE$2,001
CHABAD OF SOUTHAMPTON$1,980
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$1,950
CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY$1,555
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN INT'L MUSIC SOCIE$1,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSI$1,500
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 (FY17–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDRENS SMILE FOUNDATION: $115 → 13%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $1k → 20%MOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER: $4k → 17%MOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 17%PARENTS LEAGUE OF NEW YORK: $250 → 17%MOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER: $180 → 17%JCC MANHATTAN: $292 → 17%JCC MANHATTAN: $250 → 17%STRENGTH TO STRENGTH: $180 → 17%DOROT: $360 → 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
MI
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
DE
DC
GA
FL

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$643k · 49 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

49 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
34

Total granted

$643k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+15%

Still filing today

53%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEducationHealthReligionOther

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

  • SS
    SHEFA SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $69k · revenue +431%
  • NY
    New York University
    3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +51%
  • TA
    THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $16k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM TELEVISION
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • EC
    ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTONE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • CF
    COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +33%

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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

2
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
3
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
4
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
5
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc

Yivo's mission is to study the thousand-year history of jewish life in eastern europe and russia in all its aspects: language, history, religion, folkways and material culture. yivo's archive and library preserves a significant collection…

Religion
6
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
7
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
8
Sherit Isroel
9
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
10
University of Judaism Foundation
11
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc and the most unlike its peers is Strength to Strength. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%7%20–35yr13%38%35–55yr16%41%55yr+

The field is 19% 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 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/61
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,699

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

52 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 100 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
36/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RAMAZ SCHOOL — $182,571 · OtherRAMAZ SCHOOLCONGREGATION KEHILATH JESHURUN — $99,471 · OtherCONGREGATION KEHILATH JESHURUNTEMPLE EMANU-EL — $29,050 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-ELCENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY — $28,500 · OtherCENTER FOR DOCUMENTARYUSC SHOAH FOUNDATION — $24,600 · OtherCOLEL CHABAD — $18,900 · Other+64 more — $125,903 · Other+64 moreSHEFA SCHOOL — $69,485 · EducationSHEFA SCHOOLNew York University — $30,000 · EducationNew York Universit…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $18,485 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF CO…+2 more — $1,836 · EducationJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE — $10,800 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $7,103 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC — $5,085 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $3,570 · Arts & CultureAMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art — $1,470 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $2,760 · Arts & CultureAMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE INC — $20,814 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $2,500 · InternationalCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC — $2,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $1,682 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $1,500 · International+4 more — $2,111 · InternationalBROWN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $15,539 · Membership BenefitTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $14,133 · Religion+1 more — $8 · Religion
Other$508,995Education$119,806Arts & Culture$32,788International$30,607Community Improvement$20,000Membership Benefit$15,539Religion$14,141

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSHEFA SCHOOL — $69,485 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE INC — $20,814 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $18,485 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $15,539 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $14,133 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE — $10,800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $7,295 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $7,103 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUpper East Side Hatzolah Inc — $6,200 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC — $5,085 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $4,636 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $3,570 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $3,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMacular Degeneration Association — $2,725 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYAD EZRA — $2,035 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $1,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $1,682 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION — $1,651 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $1,470 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $1,010 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSBH COMMUNITY SERVICE NETWORK INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetITREK INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $910 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIRYAM INSTITUTE INC — $650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC — $542 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEPHARDIC HERITAGE MUSEUM INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC — $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTS LEAGUE OF NEW YORK INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRENGTH TO STRENGTH — $180 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC — $174 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND — $159 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC — $142 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $135 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS SMILE FOUNDATION — $115 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $36 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds SHEFA SCHOOL
  • Who funds New York University
  • Who funds AMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE INC
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
  • Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds Upper East Side Hatzolah Inc
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC
  • Who funds MOISE SAFRA COMMUNITY CENTER INC
  • Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds Macular Degeneration Association
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds YAD EZRA
  • Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC
  • Who funds AMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION 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.

Jewish Communal FundNY23.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Nash Family Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Emanuel & Riane Gruss Charitable Foundation Inc · Anne and Natalio Fridman Foundation · Abraham D & Annette Cohen Foundation · George & Adele Klein Family Foundation · I Chera & Sons Foundation Inc · The Setton Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

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 Silvera 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    6report 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, FY2025

    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 Silvera Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Silvera Foundation 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 100 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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