· Private foundation
Silverback Educational Foundation for the Arts Dance and Athletics
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
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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.
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How this is measured
49 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. 49 of the 73 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 Willistown Conservation Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COOPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds LOWER MERION SOCCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds LITTLE ALL-AMERICAN FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Silverback Educational Foundation for the Arts Dance and Athletics funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Silverback Educational Foundation for the Arts Dance and Athletics. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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