How much does Silvernail Family Foundation give?

Silvernail Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $77,913 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 15 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.

What does Silvernail Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (76%), Arts & Culture (22%), Health (3%).

Who are Silvernail Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Husson University ($23k), University of New England ($11k), Bowdoin College ($8k).

Does Silvernail Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Silvernail Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Silvernail Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.

Where is Silvernail Family Foundation based?

Silvernail Family Foundation is based in IL.

Foundation Dossiers

Illinois · Private foundation

Silvernail Family Foundation

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.

$78k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 17
Grants FY2025: 15
Organizations funded FY2024: 60%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $3,750
Largest grant, FY2025: $11,292
Organizations funded a year: 9 to 15; FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $1.0M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Silvernail Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	17	$78k	24%
FY2024	15	$94k	60%
FY2023	9	$60k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$176kArts & Culture$50kHealth$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Husson University	$22,500	2	0%
University of New England	$11,250	3	0%
Bowdoin College	$7,500	2	0%
Maine College of Art and Design	$7,500	2	0%
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc	$7,500	2	0%
Thomas College	$7,500	2	0%
Quinnipiac University	$7,500	2	0%
College of the Atlantic	$6,621	2	0%
Paws for Patrick	$6,500	1	2%
Emerson College	$5,000	1	0%

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All grantees of Silvernail Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Husson University	$22,500	2	0%
University of New England	$11,250	3	0%
Bowdoin College	$7,500	2	0%
Maine College of Art and Design	$7,500	2	0%
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc	$7,500	2	0%
Thomas College	$7,500	2	0%
Quinnipiac University	$7,500	2	0%
College of the Atlantic	$6,621	2	0%
Paws for Patrick	$6,500	1	2%
Emerson College	$5,000	1	0%
Wellesley College	$5,000	1	0%
Stonehill College Inc	$3,750	1	0%
Connecticut College	$3,750	1	0%
American University	$3,750	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($127k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Silvernail Family Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

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About Silvernail Family Foundation

How much does Silvernail Family Foundation give?: Silvernail Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $77,913 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 15 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does Silvernail Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (76%), Arts & Culture (22%), Health (3%).
Who are Silvernail Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Husson University ($23k), University of New England ($11k), Bowdoin College ($8k).
Does Silvernail Family Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Silvernail Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Silvernail Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Silvernail Family Foundation based?: Silvernail Family Foundation is based in IL.