· Private foundation
Silverman Fam Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITAL | $45,000 |
| CAMP RAMAH IN WISCONSIN | $25,000 |
| GREENLIGHT FUND | $20,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL | $7,500 |
| SAGER SOLOMON SCHECHTER SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION | $2,500 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| NORTH SUBURBAN SYNAGOGUE BETH EL | $1,800 |
| HUNGER TASK FORCE OF MILWAUKEE | $1,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $1,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE | $1,000 |
| THE ARK | $1,000 |
| JEWISH CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC8× · 2018–2025 · $186k · revenue +38%
- GFGREENLIGHT FUND INC3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +3%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- AASPCAone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Federation amplifies our collective strength to make the world a better place for everyone. we assist people in need, impact chicagoans of all faiths; support israel and the jewish people worldwide; respond swiftly to crises; cultivate…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Juf provides critical resources that bring food, refuge, health care, education and emergency assistance to over 500,000 chicagoans of all faiths and millions of jews in israel and around the world, funding a network of 100+ agencies,…
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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.
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 19 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Jewish Child and Family Services ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Silverman Fam Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Silverman Fam Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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