· Private foundation
The Jean and Sidney Silber Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Jean and Sidney Silber Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Jean and Sidney Silber Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 18 organizations, $460k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $290k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $50,000 |
| ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY | $50,000 |
| FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE - HEART OF THE SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES | $20,000 |
| CODE IN THE SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND | $20,000 |
| JOB OPPORTUNITIES TASK FORCE | $20,000 |
| PAULS PLACE INC | $20,000 |
| BALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT | $15,000 |
| BUILD - TURNAROUND TUESDAYS | $15,000 |
| PARKS AND PEOPLE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| DIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GREEN STREET ACADEMY | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–21, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EPENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY5× · 2017–2021 · $440k · revenue +37%
- BCBALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT INC5× · 2017–2021 · $58k · revenue +289%
- CICODE IN THE SCHOOLS INC3× · 2019–2021 · $55k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- FFFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE - STRONG SCHOOLS MARYLANDone grant, 2019 · $35k
- SSSTRONG SCHOOLS MARYLANDone grant, 2018 · $25k
- CACREATIVE ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue -23%
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.
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Baltimore hunger project removes the barriers to learning by providing food and resources to children facing food insecurity in our community.
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Sbcs, a title 1 school, seeks to provide each child with the tools necessary to live a fulfilling, productive life. the rigorous expeditionary learning (el) school model is engaging and student-centered. el cultivates students' love of…
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How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 37 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 BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CURRICULUM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CODE IN THE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds Art With a Heart Inc ↗
- Who funds The Dyslexia Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PNEUMA INC ↗
- Who funds JOB OPPORTUNITIES TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN STREET ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE DESIGN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THREAD INC ↗
- Who funds Druid Heights Community Development Corporation ↗
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: Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Sherman Family Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Family League of Baltimore City Inc · Lockhart Vaughan Foundation · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jean and Sidney Silber Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jean and Sidney Silber Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Druid Heights Community Development Corporation: 100% of income from government
- Parks and People Inc: 43% of income from government
- Center for Urban Families Inc: 36% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc: 29% of income from government
- Thread Inc: 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
- Art With a Heart Inc: 4% of income from government
- Wide Angle Youth Media Inc: 3% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation: 2% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc: 1% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Maryland Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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