· Private foundation
Silverback Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUKE CANCER INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| CHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC | $12,500 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR EASTERN NC | $10,000 |
| DUKE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY - IRON DUKES FUND | $9,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS FOR YOUTH | $5,500 |
| MUSEUM OF LIFE AND SCIENCE | $5,000 |
| HAPPY DITTO INC | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FOR GOOD | $5,000 |
| JASON LEARNING | $4,500 |
| NORTH CAROLINA ARTS IN ACTION | $3,500 |
| CHATHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CHATHAM COUNTY | $2,500 |
| DURHAM ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| HARPER'S HOME NC | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
52 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
Center for Child and Family Health Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +41%
CHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +11%- VFVolunteers for Youth Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- JRJUDEA REFORM CONGREGATIONone grant, 2019 · $26k
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCHone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -40%
- KCKOENIG CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -6%
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.
To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.
To enrich and connect individuals in the greater raleigh community through intimate and exceptional chamber music experiences. we are committed to presenting world class artists performing music of the highest caliber, providing…
Provide relevant educational and entertaining opportunities within the region that exceed customer expectations, while preserving our community's vibrant cultural history.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
Community school of davidson believes that every student can and will succeed in ways that reflect his or her own aptitudes and interests. our mission is to use the principles of "the basis school" to provide an optimum environment for…
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Cisnc's mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. cisnc serves as the backbone for its statewide network of 20 independent nonprofit organizations that serve local…
The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…
To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.
To provide basic necessities for public school children as well as improving parenting skills in order for the children to be successful in school and to expand professional development opportunities for educators.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina and the most unlike its peers is Durham Success Summit Inc. 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.
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 36 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 95 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 Center for Child and Family Health Inc ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Volunteers for Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ARTS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM-CHAPEL HILL JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CHATHAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DURHAM NATIVITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ESTEAMED COFFEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Triangle ArtWorks Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds KOENIG CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Duke University Health System Inc · Duke University · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Fox Family Foundation Inc · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · The Leon Levine Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Forest At Duke Inc · Durham Merchants Association Charitable Foundation · Fidelity 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 Foundation Inc 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% 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.