· Private foundation
Sylarn Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $240k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $1,091,600 |
| NMU FOUNDATION | $165,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AM | $75,000 |
| BEACON HOUSE | $45,000 |
| MIKVA CHALLENGE - DC | $30,000 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA - | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against -16% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Michigan9× · 2017–2025 · $8.8M · revenue +202%
- BCBAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP4× · 2019–2023 · $2.3M · revenue +9%
- AIACCESS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +185% · 39% of their budget
Funded once
- DPDC PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2017 · $200k
- TBTEMPLE BETH SHOLOMone grant, 2017 · $160k
REACH EDUCATION INCone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -16%
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.
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.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
Provide transformative educational experiences that empower underserved students
College advising corps (cac) is the nation's largest nonprofit service organization dedicated to advancing educational equity and expanding opportunity for all high school students. cac provides college enrollment and career guidance to…
Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
College summit, inc. d/b/a peerforward (peerforward)'s mission is to unleash the power of positive peer influence to transform the lives of youth living in low-income communities by connecting them to college and careers. in low-income…
The world affairs councils of america supports, strengthens, and represents a national network of 90 nonpartisan organizations working to deepen their communities' global perspective.
Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.
Youth communication elevates teen voices to create real change. through the power of true stories, written by youth who have been systemically marginalized, we create more supportive and successful learning communities. youth…
Read alliance, inc (read alliance) works to accelerate the educational trajectory of early elementary students through the power of teens who provide one-to-one literacy tutoring in under-resourced communities. read impacts two populations…
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE DC ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation - District of Columbia ↗
- Who funds SHOUTMOUSEPRESSINC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ScholarCHIPS Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds REACH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY ADVOCACY COALITION INC ↗
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 Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Luther I Replogle Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sylarn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sylarn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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