· Private foundation
Silverback Educational Foundation for the Arts Dance and Athletics
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $148k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $692k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YSC ACADEMY INC | $800,031 |
| BENCHMARK SCHOOL | $700,059 |
| MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $525,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $504,800 |
| THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL | $325,000 |
| BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY | $175,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $170,000 |
| THE SWAG SOCCER LLC | $127,013 |
| CRISPUS ATTUCKS YORK | $65,000 |
| THE PHELPS SCHOOL | $55,000 |
| WILLIAMS COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| THE EPISCOPAL ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| ST ROSE OF LIMA | $35,000 |
| WILLISTOWN CONSERVATION TRUST INC | $25,000 |
| YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA | $25,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, 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.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k 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
- YAYSC ACADEMY8× · 2018–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +71%
- BSBenchmark School7× · 2018–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +29%
- MPMALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +69%
Funded once
- YAYSC Academy Incone grant, 2017 · $403k
- SSSpirit Soccer Club of Chester Countyone grant, 2017 · $281k
- BSBenchmark Schoolone grant, 2017 · $209k
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.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Brunswick school, inc. is a day school for boys in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. the purpose of the school is to educate the "whole boy". it does so by helping boys and young men - without regard to culture, ethnicity or religion…
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.
The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is York College of Pennsylvania and the most unlike its peers is Thomas Jefferson University. 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 29 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 73 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 YSC ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Benchmark School ↗
- Who funds MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SHIPLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Academy ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds CHARITY FOR THE ARTS SPORTS & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds USA Dance Inc ↗
- Who funds LOGOS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE PHELPS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HAVERFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CRISPUS ATTUCKS ASSOCIATION OF YORK PA ↗
- Who funds THE CONSHOHOCKEN ROWING CENTER ↗
- Who funds RADNOR HUNT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds URBAN DANCE & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ATHLETIC CLUB OF FAIRHILL INC ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT SOCCER CLUB OF CHESTER COUNTY (DBA FC DELCO) ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUTSAL FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds THE COOPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Willistown Conservation Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
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: Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · The Philadelphia Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · Daniel M Tabas Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · E Murdoch Family Foundation · Quaker City Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Future Standard Foundation · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · Hamilton Family Foundation · The Maguire 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 Silverback Educational Foundation for the Arts Dance and Athletics 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% 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.
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