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The Nathan and Marilyn Silberman Fdn at a glance

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The Nathan and Marilyn Silberman Fdn

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$222k
Granted FY2024still arriving
137
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$843kPhilanthropy$115kHuman Services$42kHealth$33kInternational$16kEducation$6kFood & Nutrition$4kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 137 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k131 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $143k
$280
Median grant
10
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOMLEI CHESED OF BOYAN$46,400
MESIVTA TIFERETH ISRAEL OF RUZHIN$41,120
KHAL BNEI AVRAHAM YAAKAV$17,070
Individual grant recipient$15,000
Individual grant recipient$13,000
TZIDKAS MORDECHAI INC$10,000
KEREN AHAVAS CHESED$5,500
Individual grant recipient$5,400
BAIS MEDRASH KEREN SCHLOMO$5,000
MESIVTA TIFERETH JERUSALEM$3,780
YOUND ISRAEL OF MIDWOOD$2,678
CONGREGATION AGUDAS ISRAEL CHESED FUND$2,500
AGUDATH ISRAEL CHESED FUND$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET HATURAV$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEEMAN FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%ISRAEL MEDICAL FUND: $4k → 17%AVIGDORS HELPING HANDS: $1k → 13%ISRAEL MEDICAL FUND: $3k → 17%NEEMAN FOUNDATION: $180 → 9%AVIGDORS HELPING HANDS: $1k → 13%BIKUR CHOLIM OF STATEN ISLAND: $180 → 11%AVIGDOR'S HELPING HAND: $500 → 13%AVIGDORS HELPING HANDS: $180 → 13%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $180 → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $180 → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $100 → 11%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $280 → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $100 → 6%DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND: $54 → 6%CHAI 4 EVER: $360 → 11%CHAI 4 EVER: $180 → 11%CHAYIM ARUCHIM: $360 → 20%CHAYIM ARUCHIM: $360 → 20%CHAYIM ARUCHIM: $180 → 20%CHAYIM ARUCHIM: $180 → 20%DOROT: $136 → 17%DOROT INC: $72 → 17%DOROT: $54 → 17%DOROT INC: $54 → 17%DOROT INC: $36 → 17%MY EXTENDED FAMILY: $250 → 20%KEREN BORUCH YITZCHOK: $8k → 20%KEREN BORUCH YITZCHOK: $5k → 20%KEREN BORUCH YITZCHOK: $3k → 20%A TIME: $360 → 20%BONEI OLAM: $360 → 20%MISASKIM: $360 → 20%MISASKIM: $360 → 20%BONEI OLAM: $180 → 20%KIMPATORIN AID: $36 → 20%KIMPATORIN AID: $36 → 20%BOBBIES PLACE: $500 → 20%OHEL CHILDRENS HOME & FAMILY SERVICES: $360 → 20%BOBBIES PLACE: $360 → 20%OHEL CHILDRENS HOME & FAMILY SERVICES: $360 → 20%BOBBIES PLACE: $180 → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 200 repeat orgs$226k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

200 repeat relationships: 110 still active in FY2024, 90 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

200
130

Total granted

$1.0M
$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+3%

Still filing today

32%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionPhilanthropyInternationalHealthEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • OM
    OHR MEIR UBRACHA
    3× · 2020–2022 · $10k · revenue +87%
  • MH
    MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +60%
  • CL
    CHAI LIFELINE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • MT
    MESIVTA TIFERETH ISRAEL OF RHIZIN
    one grant, 2020 · $34k
  • GC
    GOMLEI CHESED
    one grant, 2020 · $14k
  • MT
    MARTIN TRUEX JR FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue -36%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Sherit Isroel
—
3
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
4
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
5
Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Chasdei Dovid Elimelech Inc
Philanthropy
7
Tzemach Yifroch Foundation
—
8
Tal Hashamayim Foundation
Religion
9
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

—
10
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
11
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Zicron Eliyahu Inc
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rachel's Place Charitable Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

97 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 97 of the 357 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/97
Grantees still filing
58/97
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MESIVTA TIFERETH ISRAEL OF RIZHIN: $264,240 · OtherMESIVTA TIFERETH ISRAEL OF RIZHINGOMLEI CHESED OF BOYAN: $110,800 · OtherGOMLEI CHESED OF BOYANVARIOUS ORGANIZED CHARITIES: $86,416 · OtherVARIOUS ORGANIZED CHARITIESMESIVTA TIFERETH ISRAEL OF RUZHIN: $41,120 · Other+149 more: $590,260 · Other+149 moreKEREN BORUCH YITZCHOK INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesISRAEL MEDICAL FUND CORP: $6,100 · Human ServicesAVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC: $2,914 · Human ServicesTHE NE'EMAN FOUNDATION: $2,680 · Human Services+8 more: $5,534 · Human ServicesTZIDKAS MORDECHAI INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyOHR MEIR UBRACHA: $10,000 · PhilanthropySIMCHA FOUNDATION: $7,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FLATBUSH COMMUNITY FUND INC co BERNATH & ROSENBERG PC: $1,458 · PhilanthropyHEBRON FUND INC: $1,136 · Philanthropy+4 more: $2,890 · PhilanthropyYESHIVA OHR YITZCHOK: $10,700 · ReligionTHE RANCH AT BETHEL INC: $3,600 · ReligionARACHIM INC: $3,060 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OHEV YISRAEL: $3,000 · ReligionOHR NAAVA: $2,160 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF EMUNAH VCHESED: $2,000 · ReligionKEREN HASHVIIS INC: $1,980 · ReligionNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN: $1,840 · Religion+5 more: $2,989 · ReligionEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC: $5,458 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD YEMIN INC: $4,000 · InternationalEZER MIZION: $1,970 · InternationalJUST ONE LIFE INC: $1,260 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,212 · InternationalMARTIN TRUEX JR FOUNDATION INC: $10,610 · Youth DevelopmentAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $2,520 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME: $676 · Youth DevelopmentAmerican Friends of Ramot Torah Schools: $3,600 · EducationTALMUD TORAH BAIS AVROHOM INC: $2,000 · EducationPEARL BLAU LEARNING CENTER INC: $1,920 · EducationKEREN OR INC: $920 · EducationYeshiva Tiferes Yisroel: $540 · Education
Other$1,092,836Human Services$33,228Philanthropy$32,484Religion$31,329International$13,900Youth Development$13,806Education$8,980

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYESHIVA OHR YITZCHOK: $10,700 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMARTIN TRUEX JR FOUNDATION INC: $10,610 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTZIDKAS MORDECHAI INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetOHR MEIR UBRACHA: $10,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSIMCHA FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $6,454 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL MEDICAL FUND CORP: $6,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC: $5,458 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $4,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD YEMIN INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $3,990 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Ramot Torah Schools: $3,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARACHIM INC: $3,060 over 4y, 80% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OHEV YISRAEL: $3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC: $2,914 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $2,520 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Yeshivat Ateret Hatora Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $2,360 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM: $2,160 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOHR NAAVA: $2,160 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEYLIM LEV LACHIM: $2,080 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTALMUD TORAH BAIS AVROHOM INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF EMUNAH VCHESED: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKEREN HASHVIIS INC: $1,980 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEZER MIZION: $1,970 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPEARL BLAU LEARNING CENTER INC: $1,920 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMASBIA: $1,870 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN: $1,840 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FLATBUSH COMMUNITY FUND INC co BERNATH & ROSENBERG PC: $1,458 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUST ONE LIFE INC: $1,260 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,212 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $1,140 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEBRON FUND INC: $1,136 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHAYIM ARUCHIM INC: $1,080 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOBBIES PLACE INC: $1,040 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREFUAH V SIMCHA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $994 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN OR INC: $920 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OF NEW SQUARE INC DBA CHESED 247: $838 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR: $806 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOhel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc: $720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVKAH LAUFER BIKUR CHOLIM: $720 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMISASKIM CORP: $720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHUVU RETURN INC: $710 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME: $676 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKAYAMA INC: $660 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetYAD L'ACHIM PEYLEI ISRAEL: $660 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetZaka Tel-Aviv Inc: $640 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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 KEREN BORUCH YITZCHOK INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA OHR YITZCHOK ↗
  • Who funds MARTIN TRUEX JR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TZIDKAS MORDECHAI INC ↗
  • Who funds OHR MEIR UBRACHA ↗
  • Who funds EMUNAH VCHESED INC ↗
  • Who funds SIMCHA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL MEDICAL FUND CORP ↗
  • Who funds EMUNAH OF AMERICA 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.

The Ojc FundZichron Chaim Charity…Allen I Gross Charita…Jewish Communal FundJack Adjmi Family Fou…Gertrude and Morris B…Bcg Charitable Founda…Jsw FoundationMd Friedman Family Fo…Moses and Miriam Voge…The Tzedaka FundThe Fishoff Family Fo…
The Ojc FundNY66.4× affinity66 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Allen I Gross Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation · Bcg Charitable Foundation · Jsw Foundation · Md Friedman Family Foundation · Moses and Miriam Vogel Charitable Foundation Tr · The Tzedaka Fund · The Fishoff Family Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Nathan and Marilyn Silberman Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nathan and Marilyn Silberman Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Cheder Toras Zev: 22% of income from government
  • Yeshiva Shaar Hatalmud: 6% of income from government
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Chai 4EVER Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Mesorah Heritage Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 357 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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