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The Fradin Silberstein 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.

$22k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
10%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,805
Organizations funded a year
16 to 27
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$192k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The Fradin Silberstein Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitCivil RightsArts & CultureOther
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
FY2025still arriving25$22k44%
FY202421$30k10%
FY202321$24k14%
FY202227$26k11%
FY202126$29k38%
FY202016$21kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$56kHuman Services$24kArts & Culture$24kHealth$12kInternational$10kPublic Benefit$4kYouth Development$4kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($64k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Fradin Silberstein Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChautauqua Institution: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Everett Jewish Life Center in Chautauqua: $14,500 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetOld Colony Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRobert H Jackson Center Inc: $3,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Good Days and Special Times Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Second Step Inc: $2,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCentre Street Food Pantry Inc: $2,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRaising Multicultural Kids: $2,450 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Lions Club of Easton Foundation Inc: $1,750 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSave a Child's Heart Foundation US Inc: $1,575 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHouse of Possibilities Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCommittee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America Inc: $1,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Brothers Friends of the Elderly - Boston Inc: $1,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFacing History & Ourselves Inc: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $603 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoca West Children's Foundation Fka Boca West Community Charitable Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChautauqua Dance Circle Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMerit Spread Foundation Inc: $170 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Beaver Country Day School Inc: $150 over 3y, 0.0% 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 22.

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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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA20.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · North Easton Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund

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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About The Fradin Silberstein Foundation

How much does The Fradin Silberstein Foundation give?
The Fradin Silberstein Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $22,107 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Fradin Silberstein Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (36%), Human Services (16%), Arts & Culture (15%).
Who are The Fradin Silberstein Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Chautauqua Institution ($21k), The Everett Jewish Life Center in Chautauqua ($15k), Old Colony Young Men's Christian Association Inc ($14k).
Does The Fradin Silberstein Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Fradin Silberstein Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Fradin Silberstein Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Boston Foundation Inc.
Where is The Fradin Silberstein Foundation based?
The Fradin Silberstein Foundation is based in MA.

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 47 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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