California · Private foundation
Stephen M Silberstein Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $8.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2024
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $4,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 57
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $74M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Stephen M Silberstein Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $385k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 47 | $8.5M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $6.9M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $5.5M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $9.9M | 10% |
| FY2020 | 55 | $6.8M | 20% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $5.6M | 25% |
| FY2018 | 57 | $7.4M | 30% |
| FY2017 | 53 | $5.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of California Berkeley Foundation | $8,000,000 | 3 | 1% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $6,550,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Media Matters for America | $2,950,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Center for American Progress | $2,150,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $1,830,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Pro Publica Inc | $1,800,000 | 8 | 1% |
| As You Sow | $1,762,000 | 6 | 9% |
| Democracy Now Productions Inc | $1,600,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $1,400,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Economic Policy Institute | $1,200,000 | 8 | 3% |
Show all 85 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Stephen M Silberstein Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Hopewell Fund · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Leonard & Sophie Davis Fund · Impactassetsinc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Ford Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation
How this is measured
About Stephen M Silberstein Foundation
- How much does Stephen M Silberstein Foundation give?
- Stephen M Silberstein Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $8,537,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 57 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Stephen M Silberstein Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Civil Rights (19%), Public Benefit (15%).
- Who are Stephen M Silberstein Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of California Berkeley Foundation ($8.0M), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($6.5M), Media Matters for America ($3.0M).
- Does Stephen M Silberstein Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Stephen M Silberstein 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 Stephen M Silberstein Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Hopewell Fund.
- Where is Stephen M Silberstein Foundation based?
- Stephen M Silberstein Foundation is based in CA.
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