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Silvester Foundation Inc at a glance

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Silvester Foundation Inc

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.

$106k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Animals$205kHealth$73kEmployment$28kEducation$18kArts & Culture$16kHuman Services$11kYouth Development$11kPublic Benefit$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $21k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$91k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$85,000
HELPING PEOPLE SUCCEED$8,000
EPILEPSY ALLIANCE$5,000
CANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE$3,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%ELEV8 HOPE: $1k → 10%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

ME
NY
CA
MO
KY
KS
TN
DC
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$316k · 15 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
22

Total granted

$316k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+5%

Still filing today

80%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • NN
    Nalas New Life Rescue Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $170k · revenue +61%
  • HH
    HPS Helping People Succeed Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $16k · revenue +36%
  • IC
    Il Circolo Inc
    3× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TREASURE COAST INC
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +23%
  • PL
    PROJECT LIFT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +456%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · 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
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc

The tragedy assistance program for survivors (taps) is america's national nonprofit organization that has cared for the loved ones of our nation's fallen heroes since 1994. taps ensures these living legacies of service and sacrifice do not…

Health
2
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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3
CJ3 Foundation

Cj3 foundation provides services, support, and advocacy to united states military service members, veterans/disabled veterans, law enforcement, and emergency responders who need/require assistance, and then connecting them with resources…

Human Services
4
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
5
For Veterans Sake Foundation

For veteran's sake foundation is here to provide an alternative solution to dealing with pts (post traumatic stress). we use a combination of a (non-therapeutic) neuro-traumatic resourcing, service dogs and consulting. working with the…

Health
6
Homes for Veterans a Nj Non Profit Corporation

Our mission is to provide a holistic approach to support veterans with disabilities by removing barriers in every aspect of their lives. this includes funding customized, barrier-free home modificationssuch as wheelchair-accessible…

Housing & Shelter
7
Head Strong Project Inc

The head strong project (headstrong) is a non-profit organization founded in 2012 that provides barrier-free, stigma-free ptsd treatment to veterans, transitioning service members, and family members connected to their care.

Health
8
Tadsaw Inc

Tadsaw inc mission statement is to provide for the training of a medical alert service dog team (one veteran/client and one rescue/shelter/personal dog equals one team) to improve the veteran/client's quality of life and, in many cases,…

Animals
9
Florida Pointer Rescue Inc

Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f

Animals
10
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Tampa Bay Florida Inc

Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…

Animals
11
Jacksonville Humane Society Inc

The jacksonville humane society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need while engaging the hearts, hands and minds of our community to bring about an end to the killing of abandoned and orphaned shelter animals.

Animals
12
Puppies Behind Bars Inc

Puppies behind bars trains incarcerated individuals to raise service dogs for wounded war veterans and first responders, facility dogs for police departments, and explosive-detecton canines for law enforcement.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Benedictine College. 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

26 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. 26 of the 40 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Nalas New Life Rescue Inc: $170,000 · AnimalsNalas New Life Rescue IncHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TREASURE COAST INC: $20,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TREASURE COAST INCPANTHER RIDGE CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $13,000 · AnimalsPANTHER RIDGE CONSERVATION CENTER INC+2 more: $1,500 · AnimalsIndividual grant recipient: $85,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHELPING PEOPLE SUCCEED FOUNDATION: $28,000 · OtherHELPING PEOPLE SUCCEED FOUNDATIONEPILEPSY FOUNDATION FLORIDA: $26,500 · OtherEPILEPSY FOUNDATION FLORIDAIl Circolo Inc: $15,000 · OtherIl Circolo IncMAYO CLINIC: $8,000 · Other+15 more: $29,366 · Other+15 moreHPS Helping People Succeed Inc: $16,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S COMMUNITY CARE INC: $3,000 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthPARK UNIVERSITY: $6,500 · EducationBenedictine College: $6,500 · EducationCANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INC: $5,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationPROJECT LIFT INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentOPERATION 300 INC: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesElev8hope Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $2,000 · Recreation & Sports
Animals$204,500Other$191,866Health$25,500Education$21,000Youth Development$9,000Human Services$6,000Recreation & Sports$2,000

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 budgetNalas New Life Rescue Inc: $170,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TREASURE COAST INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHPS Helping People Succeed Inc: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIl Circolo Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetPANTHER RIDGE CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $13,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetPARK UNIVERSITY: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBenedictine College: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans of Foreign Wars of The United States: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT LIFT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys Town South Florida Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION 300 INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEGASUS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $500 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.

United Way of Palm Be…Knopf Family Foundati…The Community Foundat…Leslie L Alexander Fo…Enterprise Holdings F…The Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Palm Beach County IncFL15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Knopf Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Silvester Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Silvester 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 40 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
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By state
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