· Private foundation
Syla Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 46 grants below total $1,644,963 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,189,963 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $545,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $585k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wilkes Community Partnership for Children | $180,463 |
| Intermountain Foundation - Primary Children's Hospital | $112,500 |
| Crossnore | $100,000 |
| Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation | $100,000 |
| HRDC District IX, Inc. | $75,000 |
| Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation | $60,000 |
| UNC College of Arts & Sciences | $50,000 |
| Wilkes Recovery Revolution, Inc. | $50,000 |
| Neighborhood House | $50,000 |
| US Olympic & Paralympic Foundation | $50,000 |
| Park City Community Foundation | $50,000 |
| Avon Old Farms School | $50,000 |
| Thrive | $50,000 |
| Wilkes Community College Foundation Inc | $50,000 |
| The Other Side Academy | $45,000 |
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 +21% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $843k 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
- WCWILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2024 · $142k · revenue +21%
- UAUTAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +91%
- USUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2024 · $95k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- WKWFU Kulynych/Story Family Fundone grant, 2021 · $100k
- SOSPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +11%
- NANATIONAL ABILITY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +68%
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.
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
Children's services
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
With the goal of ensuring athletes within the u.s. olympic and paralympic movement of are safe, supported, and strengthened. the center: delivers comprehensive abuse prevention education within and outside of the u.s. olympic and…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.
The mission of new west charter school is to provide an academically rigorous, highly individualized education for 21st century students in grades 6 - 12. in the decades to come, personal success will require increasingly high levels of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 79 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 WILKES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
- Who funds The Other Side Academy ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Park City Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FRIENDSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST STEP HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCHENCK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC ↗
- Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
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: The Leonard G Herring Family Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · AEC Trust · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Stone Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Rose Community Foundation
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.
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