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Silverman Family Foundation at a glance

· Public charity

Silverman Family Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as arizona community foundation remains a qualified organization.

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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$505kHuman Services$325kHealth$245kInternational$220kArts & Culture$188kAnimals$115kReligion$110kEmployment$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $265,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $300,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k15 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$50,000
DETOUR CO THEATRE$30,000
TEMPLE SOLEL$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION$20,000
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$15,000
HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION$15,000
ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE AND SPCA$15,000
PARTNERS FOR PAIUTE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$15,000
MARICOPA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION$12,500
SCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC$12,500
MENTORKIDS USA$10,000
SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PARTNERS$10,000
BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION$10,000
100 CLUB OF ARIZONA$10,000
VALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $110k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $50k → 6%STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $60k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $50k → 6%STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $35k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND ARIZONA: $15k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $20k → 11%PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%A NEW LEAF: $20k → 11%ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE AND SPCA: $15k → 11%TEMPLE SOLEL: $20k → 11%TEMPLE SOLEL: $20k → 11%TEMPLE SOLEL: $20k → 11%TEMPLE SOLEL: $20k → 11%TEMPLE SOLEL: $20k → 11%TEMPLE SOLEL: $20k → 11%SEE 4 VETS: $20k → 11%SEE 4 VETS: $20k → 11%SEE 4 VETS: $20k → 11%SEE 4 VETS: $20k → 11%PARTNERS FOR PAIUTE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $15k → 11%PARTNERS FOR PAIUTE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $15k → 11%PARTNERS FOR PAIUTE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $15k → 11%Partners for Paiute Neighborhood Center: $15k → 11%PARTNERS FOR PAIUTE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $15k → 11%PARTNERS FOR PAIUTE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $15k → 11%PARTNERS FOR PAIUTE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $15k → 11%ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY: $20k → 11%ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY: $20k → 11%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $20k → 11%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $20k → 11%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $20k → 11%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $20k → 11%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $15k → 11%CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH: $15k → 11%100 CLUB OF ARIZONA: $20k → 11%100 CLUB OF ARIZONA: $20k → 11%FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA: $20k → 11%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Silverman Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in AZ; by stated purpose, 88%.

Silverman Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 21 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
6

Total granted

$1.7M
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+20%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyAnimalsEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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

  • HF
    HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +31%
  • University of Arizona Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +109%
  • SC
    SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • AN
    A NEW LEAFgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +107%
  • AO
    ARC OF ARIZONA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • TC
    THE CHARRO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +20%
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
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
3
The Dons of Arizona
Education
4
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.

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5
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
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6
Arizona Theatre Company

ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.

Arts & Culture
7
Vitalyst Health Foundation

To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.

Health
8
Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Foundation

Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.

Health
9
Arizona Science Center

To inspire, educate and engage curious minds through science.

Arts & Culture
10
Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
11
Arizona Educational Foundation Inc

To celebrate excellence and cultivate opportunity in pk-12th grade arizona public education.

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12
Science Foundation Arizona

Science foundation arizona's mission is to diversify arizona's economy by investing in scientific and engineering research linked to industry needs and investing in education to create a work force with 21st centrury skills.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Detour Company Theater Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
19/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $270,000 · HealthHONORHEALTH FOUNDATIONSCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $120,000 · HealthSCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PARTNER…Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $40,000 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospital …BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATI…A NEW LEAF: $20,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthPARTNERS FOR PAIUTE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $135,000 · OtherPARTNERS FOR PAIUTE NEIGHBORHOOD CENT…TEMPLE SOLEL: $120,000 · OtherTEMPLE SOLELSUPPORT EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT FOR VETS: $80,000 · OtherSUPPORT EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT FOR …100 CLUB OF ARIZONA: $60,000 · Other100 CLUB OF ARIZONAVALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $50,000 · OtherVALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CE…FRIENDS OF THE SCOTTSDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $25,000 · OtherTHE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE: $45,000 · OtherTHE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUEArizona Humane Society: $40,000 · OtherArizona Humane SocietyArizona Small Dog Rescue: $30,000 · OtherFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA: $25,000 · Other+3 more: $35,500 · Other+3 moreJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $220,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIO…University of Arizona Foundation: $150,000 · EducationUniversity …STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $45,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SIL…DETOUR COMPANY THEATER INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesSCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC: $95,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HEARD MUSEUM: $35,000 · Arts & CultureMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $97,500 · PhilanthropyTHE CHARRO FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTEMPE UNION HIGH SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Health$495,000Other$645,500International$220,000Education$195,000Human Services$150,000Arts & Culture$130,000Philanthropy$117,500

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 budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $270,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $220,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDETOUR COMPANY THEATER INC: $150,000 over 8y, 49% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $150,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $120,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $97,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC: $95,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetSUPPORT EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT FOR VETS: $80,000 over 4y, 15% of budget100 CLUB OF ARIZONA: $60,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE: $45,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetArizona Humane Society: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEARD MUSEUM: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetArizona Small Dog Rescue: $30,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMentorKids USA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetA NEW LEAF: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHARRO FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME NETWORK INC DBA DSNetwork: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTEMPE UNION HIGH SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Arizona Community Fou…American Express Foun…Virginia G Piper Char…John F Long Foundatio…Thunderbirds CharitiesScottsdale ArtsThe Diane and Bruce H…BHHS Legacy FoundationFiesta Events IncJewish Community Foun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ27.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · John F Long Foundation Inc · Thunderbirds Charities · Scottsdale Arts · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Silverman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Silverman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 29 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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