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Silvernail Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$3,750
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE$11,292
HUSSON UNIVERSITY$7,500
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT FARMINGTON$5,000
EMERSON COLLEGE$5,000
WELLESLEY COLLEGE$5,000
WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$3,750
MAINE COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN$3,750
THOMAS COLLEGE$3,750
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND$3,750
BOWDOIN COLLEGE$3,750
SOUTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$3,750
CENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$3,750
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT$3,750
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY$3,750
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE$3,750
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 (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $5k → 7%STONEHILL COLLEGE: $4k → 11%WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $4k → 16%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%CONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $4k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $8k → 11%QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $4k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA ASHEVILLE: $4k → 12%PAWS FOR PATRICK: $7k → 8%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $4k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND: $4k → 9%COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $4k → 11%THOMAS COLLEGE: $4k → 12%CENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $4k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT FARMINGTON: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $11k → 15%WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $4k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $4k → 11%QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $4k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA ASHEVILLE: $4k → 12%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $4k → 7%BATES UNIVERSITY: $4k → 9%COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $3k → 11%THOMAS COLLEGE: $4k → 12%CENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $4k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $4k → 15%EMERSON COLLEGE: $5k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA ASHEVILLE: $4k → 12%MAINE COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: $4k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND: $4k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $4k → 15%MAINE COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: $4k → 7%BATES UNIVERSITY: $4k → 9%HUSSON UNIVERSITY: $15k → 15%SOUTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $6k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND: $4k → 9%HUSSON UNIVERSITY: $8k → 15%SOUTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $5k → 7%SOUTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $4k → 7%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$199k · 15 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
3

Total granted

$199k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+23%

Still filing today

53%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationHealthOther
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

  • HU
    Husson University
    2× · 2024–2025 · $23k · revenue +10%
  • University of New England
    3× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue +14%
  • BC
    Bowdoin College
    2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • PF
    PAWS FOR PATRICKgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +39%
  • SC
    STONEHILL COLLEGE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +23%
  • AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue 0%
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
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
2
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
3
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
4
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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5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
7
The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

Education
8
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
9
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
10
Goucher College

Goucher College provides an innovative liberal arts education that prepares students with a broad, humane perspective for a life of inquiry, creativity, and critical and analytical thinking. The College's vision is to become a top-100…

Education
11
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
12
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecticut College; the most unlike its peers is Paws for Patrick. 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

14 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. 14 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · OtherMOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATIONUNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $18,792 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINESOUTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $15,233 · OtherSOUTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA ASHEVILLE: $11,250 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA ASHEVILLEUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $11,250 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUTBATES UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · OtherBATES UNIVERSITYCENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $7,500 · OtherCENTRAL MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGECOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $6,621 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT FARMINGTON: $5,000 · OtherHusson University: $22,500 · EducationHusson UniversityUniversity of New England: $11,250 · EducationUniversity of New EnglandBowdoin College: $7,500 · EducationBowdoin CollegeMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $7,500 · EducationMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGNWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $7,500 · EducationWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INCTHOMAS COLLEGE: $7,500 · EducationTHOMAS COLLEGEQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · EducationQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITYEMERSON COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationEMERSON COLLEGEWellesley College: $5,000 · EducationWellesley CollegeSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC: $3,750 · EducationCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $3,750 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $3,750 · EducationPAWS FOR PATRICK: $6,500 · Health
Other$133,146Education$92,500Health$6,500

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 budgetHusson University: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England: $11,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS COLLEGE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC: $6,621 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PATRICK: $6,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC: $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $3,750 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Stonehill College Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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