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The Robert & Christina Silberman Charitable Trust

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.

$281k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
29%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$3.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations The Robert & Christina Silberman Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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
FY2024still arriving17$281k76%
FY20237$175k29%
FY20229$235k22%
FY20217$155k29%
FY20208$178k13%
FY201914$155k64%
FY201811$37k64%
FY201710$47kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$556kEducation$302kArts & Culture$130kCrime & Legal$121kRecreation & Sports$93kEnvironment$28kAnimals$19kHuman Services$18kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The National Theatre Foundation$116,30063%
Southern Methodist University$100,00010%
DC Preparatory Academy$94,05380%
Sankaty Head Foundation Inc$89,33581%
Aio Foundation$50,00011%
Mk9s Service Dogs$15,000130%
Earthjustice$10,00010%
Pro Publica Inc$10,00010%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$10,00010%
Elevated Access Inc$10,00011%
Show all 26 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($689k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Robert & Christina Silberman Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe National Theatre Foundation: $116,300 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDC Preparatory Academy: $94,053 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSankaty Head Foundation Inc: $89,335 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetAio Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMk9s Service Dogs: $15,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetEarthjustice: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPro Publica Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElevated Access Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEverytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Sense of Home: $8,290 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc: $8,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCommon Threads: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe LAM Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $5,133 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGame Conservancy USA Inc: $3,971 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSierra Club: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trust for Public Land: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOn the Isle Corporation: $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlair House Foundation: $800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTrevor Project Inc: $500 over 1y, 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 26.

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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.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY10.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About The Robert & Christina Silberman Charitable Trust

How much does The Robert & Christina Silberman Charitable Trust give?
The Robert & Christina Silberman Charitable Trust reported 17 grants totaling $280,736 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Robert & Christina Silberman Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (42%), Education (23%), Arts & Culture (10%).
Who are The Robert & Christina Silberman Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The National Theatre Foundation ($116k), Southern Methodist University ($100k), DC Preparatory Academy ($94k).
Does The Robert & Christina Silberman Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Robert & Christina Silberman Charitable Trust 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 Robert & Christina Silberman Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The Robert & Christina Silberman Charitable Trust based?
The Robert & Christina Silberman Charitable Trust is based in MD.

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

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