· Private foundation
Syd & Jan M Silverman Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NICHOLAS CENTER | $8,463 |
| NEW CANAAN YMCA | $8,400 |
| ST VINCENT'S HOSPITAL WESTCHESTER | $8,000 |
| STONE RIDGE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC | $8,000 |
| MEMORIAL-SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CTR | $7,000 |
| OUR LADY OF SORROWS CHURCH | $6,000 |
| KIDS IN CRISIS INC | $5,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| WHITE PLAINS PERFORMING ARTS CTR INC | $5,000 |
| ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| HOMELESS YOUTH CONNECTION | $5,000 |
| WHITE PLAINS BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| WOMANS CLUB OF WHITE PLAINS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HUMAN SERVICES CAMPUS INC | $5,000 |
| CLARK UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
147 repeat relationships — 89 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WPWHITE PLAINS BEAUTIFICATION FDNINC7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +39%
- KIKIDS IN CRISIS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +57%
- CACENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC7× · 2019–2025 · $32k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- CBCOMMUNITY BRIDGES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +48%
- CSCATHOLIC SCHOOL REGION CENTERone grant, 2023 · $3k
- TSThe Stamford Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +40%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
122 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 122 of the 193 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds STONE RIDGE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE PLAINS BEAUTIFICATION FDNINC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NICHOLAS CENTER LTD ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds White Plains Performing Arts Center ↗
- Who funds WOMANS CLUB OF WHITE PLAINS FOUNDATION Inc ↗
- Who funds Waste Not Inc ↗
- Who funds Homeless Youth Connection Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VOICES OF SEPTEMBER 11 INC ↗
- Who funds PRISMA COMMUNITY CARE (FKA SOUTHWEST CENTER HIV/AIDS INC) ↗
- Who funds Human Services Campus Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GREENS LEDGE LIGHT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL HAYES HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH VINTAGE GRAND PRIX ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds WATKINS GLEN MOTOR RACING RESEARCH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERS OF RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SLEEP ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · Kvistad Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Dyson Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Newcombe Foundation · Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · Thunderbirds Charities
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Syd & Jan M Silverman Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc — 5% of income from government
- Squash Haven Inc — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Stamford Hospital — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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