Does Silverback Educational Foundation for the Arts Dance and Athletics accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

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Pennsylvania · Private foundation

Silverback Educational Foundation for the Arts Dance and Athletics

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.7M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 32
Grants FY2025: 34
Organizations funded FY2024: 18%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $800,031
Organizations funded a year: 9 to 40; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 7
Total assets, FY2025: $6.5M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Silverback Educational Foundation for the Arts Dance and Athletics funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	32	$3.7M	25%
FY2024	34	$3.1M	18%
FY2023	40	$3.6M	40%
FY2022	24	$1.9M	50%
FY2021	13	$284k	46%
FY2020	11	$181k	27%
FY2019	12	$344k	42%
FY2018	9	$478k	89%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$13MRecreation & Sports$1.4MArts & Culture$272kHealth$89kHousing & Shelter$65kScience & Tech$60kEnvironment$56kHuman Services$22kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Ysc Academy	$4,605,292	8	19%
Benchmark School	$1,891,824	7	6%
Malvern Preparatory School	$1,602,825	6	2%
St Josephs Preparatory School	$838,200	3	n/a
Burke Mountain Academy Inc	$710,000	6	2%
Shipley School	$537,233	8	1%
Episcopal Academy	$287,066	6	0%
Williams College	$256,500	5	0%
Charity for the Arts Sports & Education	$199,984	3	36%
USA Dance Inc	$198,234	3	4%

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All grantees of Silverback Educational Foundation for the Arts Dance and Athletics by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Ysc Academy	$4,605,292	8	19%
Benchmark School	$1,891,824	7	6%
Malvern Preparatory School	$1,602,825	6	2%
St Josephs Preparatory School	$838,200	3	n/a
Burke Mountain Academy Inc	$710,000	6	2%
Shipley School	$537,233	8	1%
Episcopal Academy	$287,066	6	0%
Williams College	$256,500	5	0%
Charity for the Arts Sports & Education	$199,984	3	36%
USA Dance Inc	$198,234	3	4%
Logos Academy	$160,229	3	2%
The Phelps School	$147,052	7	2%
Haverford School	$76,000	8	0%
Crispus Attucks Association of York Pa	$65,000	1	1%
The Conshohocken Rowing Center	$62,500	4	4%
Radnor Hunt Foundation	$61,500	3	66%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	$60,000	1	0%
Friends Central School Corporation	$50,500	3	n/a
Urban Dance & Educational Foundation	$45,000	1	n/a
The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc	$37,500	3	0%
Hope Partnership for Education	$37,500	3	1%
Athletic Club of Fairhill Inc	$30,000	4	7%
Spirit Soccer Club of Chester County (Dba Fc Delco)	$28,500	2	n/a
United States Futsal Federation	$28,050	7	2%
Willistown Conservation Trust Inc	$25,000	1	1%
The Cooper Foundation Inc	$25,000	1	0%
York College of Pennsylvania	$25,000	1	0%
Lower Merion Soccer Club	$20,000	3	1%
Little All-American Football Association	$20,000	1	17%
The Bryn Mawr Hospital Foundation	$20,000	4	0%
Multicultural Community Family Services Inc	$20,000	4	0%
Community Partnership School	$20,000	3	0%
Camp Tecumseh Inc	$15,000	3	0%
Kimmel Center Inc	$11,500	1	0%
The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation USA	$10,000	1	1%
Mo Better Jaguars Football Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
1883 Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Philadelphia Union Foundation	$10,000	1	2%
Minding Your Mind	$6,000	3	0%
The Gold Challenge Cup Foundation Inc	$5,500	2	1%
Willistown Country Day School	$5,000	1	0%
Salonefc	$5,000	1	n/a
No Easy Props Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Sparkyouth NYC Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
The Meadowbrook School	$4,500	1	0%
Dressage at Devon	$3,250	1	0%
City Athletics Community Partners	$2,500	1	n/a
Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc	$1,500	1	0%
Nationalities Service Center of Philadelphia	$1,500	1	0%
International Ballet Classique	$1,000	1	n/a
Thomas Jefferson University	$1,000	1	0%
The Kelly S Brush Foundation Inc	$500	1	0%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$250	1	n/a
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc	$200	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.

Silverback Educational Foundation for the Arts Dance and Athletics supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 43.

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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.

Business Leadership Organized for Catholic SchoolsPA31.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Silverback Educational Foundation for the Arts Dance and Athletics

How much does Silverback Educational Foundation for the Arts Dance and Athletics give?: Silverback Educational Foundation for the Arts Dance and Athletics reported 32 grants totaling $3,749,903 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Silverback Educational Foundation for the Arts Dance and Athletics fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (86%), Recreation & Sports (10%), Arts & Culture (2%).
Who are Silverback Educational Foundation for the Arts Dance and Athletics's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ysc Academy ($4.6M), Benchmark School ($1.9M), Malvern Preparatory School ($1.6M).
Does Silverback Educational Foundation for the Arts Dance and Athletics fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Silverback Educational Foundation for the Arts Dance and Athletics accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Silverback Educational Foundation for the Arts Dance and Athletics?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools, The Philadelphia Foundation, Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund.
Where is Silverback Educational Foundation for the Arts Dance and Athletics based?: Silverback Educational Foundation for the Arts Dance and Athletics is based in PA.