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Syd & Jan M Silverman Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$248k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
105
Grants FY2026
96
Organizations funded FY2025
7%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$10,400
Organizations funded a year
96 to 117
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
14
Total assets, FY2026
$5.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 7% of the organizations Syd & Jan M Silverman Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving102$242k11%
FY202596$231k7%
FY2024101$232k12%
FY2023104$243k11%
FY2022117$232k23%
FY2021108$188k3%
FY2020116$207k15%
FY2019113$203kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$316kHealth$304kArts & Culture$146kReligion$135kHuman Services$117kFood & Nutrition$98kHousing & Shelter$81kAnimals$71kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
AL
GA
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 138 grantees
All grantees of Syd & Jan M Silverman Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Stone Ridge Library Foundation Inc$64,000811%
White Plains Beautification Fdninc$41,00083%
Central Arizona Shelter Services Inc$36,00080%
Voices of September 11 Inc$35,80071%
St Marks Episcopal Church$35,0008n/a
Kids in Crisis Inc$35,00070%
St Mary's Food Bank Alliance$34,66480%
WOMANS CLUB OF WHITE PLAINS FOUNDATION Inc$34,000810%
White Plains Performing Arts Center$33,00081%
Waste Not Inc$32,98580%
Nicholas Center Ltd$31,48340%
Homeless Youth Connection Inc$31,00070%
Human Services Campus Inc$29,00070%
The Williston Northampton School$29,00080%
Prisma Community Care (Fka Southwest Center Hiv/Aids Inc)$28,00080%
The New Canaan Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc$27,40050%
Center for the Rights of Abused Children$27,00070%
Villa Maria Eduction Center Inc$25,0008n/a
Cardinal Hayes Home for Children$24,00080%
Greens Ledge Light Preservation Society Inc$24,00081%
Trustees of Clark University$23,00050%
Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix Association Inc$22,50082%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$21,50080%
Hospice of the Valley$21,00080%
Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix$18,00050%
Watkins Glen Motor Racing Research Council Inc$17,00080%
Saint Cecilia Catholic Community$16,0008n/a
Foothills Animal Rescue$15,95050%
Future 5 Inc$15,90080%
Project Sleep$15,00072%
Meals-On-Wheels of White Plains Inc$15,00081%
St Lawrence University$14,00080%
Rivers of Recovery$14,00041%
Liberty Wildlife Inc$13,00050%
Home Fur Good Animal Rescue and Placement$12,50041%
Furnishing Dignity$12,00051%
Ulster County Historical Society$12,00086%
Catskill Animal Sanctuary Inc$12,00080%
Family of Woodstock Inc$12,00080%
Mohonk Preserve Inc$11,50080%
Bradley University$11,50080%
Iona Preparatory School$11,2003n/a
The President and Trustees of Colby College$10,50070%
Squash Haven Inc$10,00070%
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$10,00040%
The New Canaan Country School Incorporated$10,00070%
Ulster County Spca$10,00080%
White Plains Hospital Medical Center$9,50050%
Spectrum Designs Foundation Ltd$9,0001n/a
Trustees of Deerfield Academy$9,00080%
Colgate University$9,00080%
The Berkshire School Inc$8,50080%
White Plains Historical Society$8,10981%
Daughter's of Liberty Legacy Inc$8,100834%
Percy Grainger America Inc$8,1008n/a
Roanoke College$8,00080%
South East European Film Festival$8,00082%
National Public Radio Inc$8,00070%
The Frederick Gunn School Inc$8,00040%
Eternal Word Television Network Inc$8,00070%
American Cancer Society Inc$8,00070%
Wamc$8,00070%
The Loomis Institute D/B/A the Loomis Chaffee School$8,00080%
Villanova University$8,00080%
Catholics Come Home Inc$7,50080%
The Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County Inc$7,50050%
Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation$7,50080%
St Joseph's Health Fund$7,0001n/a
Corporation for Public Broadcasting$7,00060%
Staying Put in New Canaan Inc$7,00060%
Open Space Institute Inc$7,00070%
The New Canaan Library Inc$7,00050%
Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Inc$6,85580%
Marbletown First Aid Unit Inc$6,50080%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$6,50080%
Rosendale Theatre Collective Inc$6,50080%
The Young Men's Christian Associati of Kingston and Ulster County$6,05080%
American Serbian Association for Prosperity$6,00063%
Rumsey Hall School Inc$6,00060%
Mary's Shelter of the Treasure Coast Inc$5,00040%
Ulster County Habitat for Humanity Inc$4,50050%
St Agnes Church$4,5005n/a
Americares Foundation Inc$4,50030%
The Food Basket Inc$4,0001n/a
Green Chimneys Children's Service$4,00040%
New Canaan EMS Inc$4,00040%
National Kidney Foundation Inc$4,00040%
Trinity College$4,00040%
Ulster Garden Club$4,0002n/a
Community Bridges Inc$4,00010%
Project Hawaii Inc$4,0001n/a
Iona Grammar School$4,0002n/a
Kingston Self-Help Center Inc Peoples Place$3,50020%
Wnet$3,50050%
Autism Speaks Inc$3,50050%
Lifeline New York$3,10021%
The Stamford Hospital$3,00010%
North Country Life Flight Inc$3,00032%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$3,00030%
National Park Foundation$3,00040%
The Foster Alliance$3,00010%
St Peters Parish$3,0003n/a
Fresh Air Fund$2,50040%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation$2,5004n/a
American Indian College Fund$2,50040%
New Canaan Chamber Music Inc$2,50050%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$2,50040%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of America$2,00030%
The Garden Club of America$2,0001n/a
White Plains Library Foundation Inc$2,00011%
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation$2,00010%
Ccnc Foundation$2,0001n/a
Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc$2,00030%
Priests for Life$2,00020%
Humane World for Animals International$2,00010%
High Meadow School Inc$1,90040%
New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc$1,7001n/a
Westchester Jewish Community Services Inc$1,68310%
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University$1,50010%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$1,50030%
Meals-On-Wheels of New Canaan Inc$1,5001n/a
Paws for Purple Hearts$1,50030%
South East Consortium$1,1001n/a
Phoenix Men's Arts Council$1,0001n/a
Project 8p Foundation$1,00010%
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States$1,00010%
Memorial Tree Fund Inc$1,0001n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$1,00010%
American Parkinson Disease Assoc$1,00020%
Oligo Nation$1,00010%
The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc$1,00010%
Food Rescue US Inc$1,00010%
Phoenix Art Museum$1,00010%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$80010%
Westchester Golf Association Inc$7501n/a
Ulster Community College Foundation Inc$57410%
Special Olympics New York Inc$50010%
Xia-Gibbs Society Inc$50011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($351k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Syd & Jan M Silverman Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 116 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetStone Ridge Library Foundation Inc: $64,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetWhite Plains Beautification Fdninc: $41,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetCentral Arizona Shelter Services Inc: $36,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVoices of September 11 Inc: $35,800 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetKids in Crisis Inc: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSt Mary's Food Bank Alliance: $34,664 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWOMANS CLUB OF WHITE PLAINS FOUNDATION Inc: $34,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetWhite Plains Performing Arts Center: $33,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWaste Not Inc: $32,985 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNicholas Center Ltd: $31,483 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHomeless Youth Connection Inc: $31,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHuman Services Campus Inc: $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Williston Northampton School: $29,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPrisma Community Care (Fka Southwest Center Hiv/Aids Inc): $28,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe New Canaan Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $27,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for the Rights of Abused Children: $27,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCardinal Hayes Home for Children: $24,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGreens Ledge Light Preservation Society Inc: $24,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTrustees of Clark University: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix Association Inc: $22,500 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $21,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of the Valley: $21,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDiocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWatkins Glen Motor Racing Research Council Inc: $17,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetFoothills Animal Rescue: $15,950 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFuture 5 Inc: $15,900 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetProject Sleep: $15,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetMeals-On-Wheels of White Plains Inc: $15,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSt Lawrence University: $14,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRivers of Recovery: $14,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetLiberty Wildlife Inc: $13,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHome Fur Good Animal Rescue and Placement: $12,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFurnishing Dignity: $12,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetUlster County Historical Society: $12,000 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetCatskill Animal Sanctuary Inc: $12,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFamily of Woodstock Inc: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMohonk Preserve Inc: $11,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBradley University: $11,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSquash Haven Inc: $10,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe New Canaan Country School Incorporated: $10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUlster County Spca: $10,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Deerfield Academy: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetColgate University: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Berkshire School Inc: $8,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Plains Historical Society: $8,109 over 8y, 1.4% of budget

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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 116.

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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.

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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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How do I get to Syd & Jan M Silverman Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Syd & Jan M Silverman Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Syd & Jan M Silverman Foundation Inc

How much does Syd & Jan M Silverman Foundation Inc give?
Syd & Jan M Silverman Foundation Inc reported 105 grants totaling $248,050 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 96 and 117 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Syd & Jan M Silverman Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (20%), Health (19%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are Syd & Jan M Silverman Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2026: Stone Ridge Library Foundation Inc ($64k), White Plains Beautification Fdninc ($41k), Central Arizona Shelter Services Inc ($36k).
Does Syd & Jan M Silverman Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Syd & Jan M Silverman Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Syd & Jan M Silverman Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc, Kvistad Foundation, Arizona Community Foundation.
Where is Syd & Jan M Silverman Foundation Inc based?
Syd & Jan M Silverman Foundation Inc is based in NJ.

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 205 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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