California · Private foundation
Sylvia Weider-Amber Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $61k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 64
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $740k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Sylvia Weider-Amber Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $59k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $49k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $55k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $58k | 2% |
| FY2021 | 64 | $71k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $68k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 47 | $47k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $46k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family Service of San Diego | $39,472 | 9 | 0% |
| Temple Emanu-El If San Diego California | $23,242 | 9 | n/a |
| Congregation Beth Israel | $21,568 | 7 | n/a |
| J Street Education Fund Inc | $17,926 | 4 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $11,118 | 8 | 0% |
| The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc | $10,854 | 9 | 0% |
| Hias Inc | $9,360 | 3 | 0% |
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $8,704 | 6 | 0% |
| MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger | $8,390 | 9 | 0% |
| Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank | $8,274 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 78 recipients with no EIN on record ($262k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sylvia Weider-Amber Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 Diego Foundation · The Arthur & Barbara Bloom Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · Tides Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
Compare Sylvia Weider-Amber Family Foundation with peer funders
About Sylvia Weider-Amber Family Foundation
- How much does Sylvia Weider-Amber Family Foundation give?
- Sylvia Weider-Amber Family Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $60,928 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 64 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sylvia Weider-Amber Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (20%), Health (17%), Civil Rights (16%).
- Who are Sylvia Weider-Amber Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Family Service of San Diego ($39k), Temple Emanu-El If San Diego California ($23k), Congregation Beth Israel ($22k).
- Does Sylvia Weider-Amber Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sylvia Weider-Amber Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sylvia Weider-Amber Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, The Arthur & Barbara Bloom Foundation, Leichtag Foundation.
- Where is Sylvia Weider-Amber Family Foundation based?
- Sylvia Weider-Amber Family Foundation is based in CA.
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