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Silverleaf Foundation Inc

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.

$360k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$626kHuman Services$437kPhilanthropy$304kReligion$102kHousing & Shelter$101kArts & Culture$94kYouth Development$89kCrime & Legal$36kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$60,000
NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL & MUSEUM SOCIETY$50,000
DOMESTIC VILOENCE CRISIS CENTER$35,000
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION$30,460
BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY$25,000
AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION$25,000
COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PROJECT$20,000
NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE$20,000
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST$15,000
KID SPIRIT$10,000
ALL OUR KIN$10,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$10,000
OPEN DOOR SHELTER$10,000
TRICYCLE FOUNDATION$10,000
OKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $272k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER: $500 → 10%UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER: $800 → 9%CHILDREN OF RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES: $3k → 8%NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $250 → 17%COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PROJECT: $20k → 9%COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PROJECT: $10k → 9%COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PROJECT: $5k → 9%COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PROJECT: $5k → 9%COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PROJECT: $2k → 9%COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PROJECT: $2k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $30k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $25k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $15k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $15k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $10k → 9%DOMESTIC VILOENCE CRISIS CENTER: $35k → 9%DOMESTIC VILOENCE CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 9%DOMESTIC VILOENCE CRISIS CENTER: $25k → 9%DOMESTIC VILOENCE CRISIS CENTER: $20k → 9%DOMESTIC VILOENCE CRISIS CENTER: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 19 repeat orgs$478k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
49

Total granted

$1.0M
$354k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+38%

Still filing today

95%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalHousing & ShelterSocial ScienceOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DV
    DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +29%
  • BO
    BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP
    5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +96%
  • TF
    TRICYCLE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -35%
  • TO
    THE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +24%
  • RT
    ROMULOUS T WEATHERMAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
8
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
9
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
10
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
11
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
12
Barnard College

Barnard college aims to provide the highest quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women, offering the unparalleled advantages of an outstanding residential college in partnership with a major research…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parentchild Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 83 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
39/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $160,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND ST…ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $87,000 · EducationACHIEVEMENT FIRST INCALL OUR KIN INC: $75,000 · EducationALL OUR KIN INCWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $70,960 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INCBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $67,500 · EducationBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATIONTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC: $50,000 · EducationTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INCSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC: $30,250 · EducationKIDSPIRIT INC: $29,000 · EducationTHE ABANA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Education+9 more: $57,550 · Education+9 moreKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $72,500 · OtherKIDS IN CRISIS INCHORIZONS BRIDGEPORT: $70,000 · OtherHORIZONS BRIDGEPORTNEW CANAAN HISTORICAL & MUSEUM SOCIETY: $50,000 · OtherNEW CANAAN HISTORICAL & MUSEU…THE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherROMULOUS T WEATHERMAN FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherNORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $20,000 · OtherMIND LIFE INSTITUTE: $20,000 · Other+38 more: $197,400 · Other+38 moreNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $262,898 · PhilanthropyNEW CANAAN COMMU…PERSON TO PERSON INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyPERSON TO PERSON…DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $120,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLEN…BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $95,000 · Human ServicesBUILDING ONE CO…COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PROJECT INC: $43,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY MINDF…NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $10,250 · Human Services+3 more: $3,800 · Human ServicesTRICYCLE FOUNDATION: $95,000 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,607 · Arts & CultureTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC: $92,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $8,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $15,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $5,000 · International+2 more: $320 · International
Education$652,260Other$504,900Philanthropy$277,898Human Services$272,050Arts & Culture$107,607Housing & Shelter$100,500International$20,320

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $262,898 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $160,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $120,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $95,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTRICYCLE FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC: $92,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $87,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALL OUR KIN INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $72,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $70,960 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS BRIDGEPORT: $70,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $67,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PROJECT INC: $43,000 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC: $30,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKIDSPIRIT INC: $29,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetTHE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ABANA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD RESCUE US INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREAD ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $10,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW CANAAN CARES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater NY Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTOWN PLAYERS OF NEW CANAAN INC: $5,200 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCenter for Educational Innovation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVOLUTION INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWILDLIFE IN CRISIS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTCHILD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESTAURANT WORKERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPARKYOUTH NYC INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENERATION CITIZEN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN OF RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES LTD: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARRE CENTER FOR BUDDHIST STUDIES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK RUGBY CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

Fairfield County's Co…New Canaan Community …The Near and Far Asso…The Tudor Foundation …The Scripps Family Fu…Viking Global Foundat…The Chicago Community…The Ford FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…American Express Foun…Jason and Janie Konid…The Schwedel Foundati…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT24.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Tudor Foundation Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · Viking Global Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Express Foundation · Jason and Janie Konidaris Family Foundation · The Schwedel 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Silverleaf Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Silverleaf Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
  • The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Crisis Center: 10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Town Players of New Canaan Inc: 2% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Achievement First Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Silverleaf Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Silverleaf Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 83 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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