· Private foundation
The Louis E Silvi 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $123k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION FOR MOUNT NITTANY MEDICAL CENTER DBA MOUNT NITTANY HEALTH FD | $51,045 |
| YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU | $40,000 |
| PENNS VALLEY YOUTH CENTER | $40,000 |
| OUR LADY OF VICTORY CHURCH | $23,000 |
| JUNIATA VALLEY COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| STRAWBERRY FIELDS INCORPORATED | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $393k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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 +72% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRE COUNTY7× · 2017–2023 · $278k · revenue +19%
- FBFOOD BANK OF THE STATE COLLEGE AREA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +27%
- SFSTRAWBERRY FIELDS INC4× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-JUNIATA VALLEYone grant, 2018 · $30k
- SJST JOSEPHS CATHOLIC ACADEMY INCone grant, 2022 · $20k
- CSCENTRE SAFEone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +13%
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.
Mount nittany's mission: we are here to make people healthier.mount nittany medical center will provide every patient with the finest, patient-centered care in a safe and comfortable environment. continued on schedule o.care will be…
The arc of centre county embodies and protects the human rights of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and practices person-centered planning which actively supports their full inclusion and participation in the…
The youth service bureau ensures that children, youth, and families will have opportunities to realize and fulfill their potential for growth and development through their participation in a continuum of community-based, family-based, and…
To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…
Centre foundation formed to receive, hold and administer funds for the benefit of the community. endowment funds generate earnings for grants to local 501(c)(3) organizations for the benefit of arts, humanities, culture, education,…
Penn state health's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people of pennsylvania, and beyond. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and equitable care; educates and trains (continued…
To provide quality residential services for individuals with a mental illness, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, and/or the elderly, as well as those individuals with other difficulties that will allow them to live…
To provide the patient with exceptional care through our community-based health system while maintaining a reverence for life. it's the vision of the system to be the integrated health system of choice through excellent quality, service…
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Our mission is to discover, collect, preserve, interpret, educate, advocate, present, and promote the county's history and culture.
Centre county children's advocacy center ("cac") is a child-focused, facility-based program in which representatives from many disciplines work together to conduct interviews of children and make team decisions about investigation,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Centre County and the most unlike its peers is Nittany Mountain Biking Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 19 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PENNS VALLEY YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTRE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE STATE COLLEGE AREA INC ↗
- Who funds STRAWBERRY FIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY SPACE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR MOUNT NITTANY MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NITTANY MOUNTAIN BIKING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRE SAFE ↗
- Who funds BOB PERKS CANCER ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
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: Centre Foundation Inc · The Hamer Foundation · Ferguson Foundation Inc · The Happy Valley Adventure Bureau · Northwest Charitable Foundation · The Benkovic Family Foundation · The Poole Foundation · Centre County United Way · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Louis E Silvi Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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