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The Silberman Aqua Family Foundation at a glance

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The Silberman Aqua Family Foundation

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.

$48k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$118kHealth$42kInternational$20kFood & Nutrition$19kHuman Services$16kPhilanthropy$15kEducation$8kArts & Culture$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$432
Median grant
5
States reached
$827k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$15,000
American Comm for Shaare Zedek Medi$5,000
Keren Hatzedaka Inc$4,000
Chabad at the Civic Center$3,600
Ezer Mizion$3,000
Yad Ezra V'Shulamit$2,064
Camera$1,800
American Friends of Leket Israel$1,800
UJA Federation$1,800
Young Israel of Hollywood$1,556
Individual grant recipient$1,540
OUNCSYYachad$1,025
Keren Hashviis-Save A Farm$1,000
Hollywood Community Kollel$648
Park View Minyan$500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%American Friends of Yad Eliezer: $75 → 5%Charity Navigator: $900 → 7%Keren Hatzedaka: $5k → 11%Charity Navigator: $100 → 7%Oorah: $800 → 11%Oorah: $250 → 11%Chai4ever: $180 → 11%Keren Hatzedaka Inc: $4k → 11%La'Aretz Foundation: $1k → 20%Childrens Bridge of Zichron Menache: $100 → 17%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

ME
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$298k · 39 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
44

Total granted

$298k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+44%

Still filing today

41%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • YE
    YAD EZRA V'SHULAMIT
    7× · 2018–2024 · $10k · revenue +96%
  • KH
    KEREN HATZEDAKA INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $9k · revenue +6%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • NE
    NE EMAN FOUNDATION USAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +39%
  • TT
    TOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +1%
  • AF
    AMIT Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
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
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
2
Sherit Isroel
—
3
Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation
Philanthropy
4
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
5
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
7
Zichron Chaim Meir Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Chesed Aharon
Philanthropy
9
Ohr Meir Ubracha

The organization provides financial assistance to victims of acts of terrorism in the state of israel.

Philanthropy
10
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
11
Gemilas Chesed Kramer Inc
Philanthropy
12
Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed Israel Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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

42 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. 42 of the 100 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/42
Grantees still filing
29/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $63,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYoung Israel Of New Rochelle: $39,116 · OtherYoung Israel Of New RochelleIndividual grant recipient: $28,780 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJCC of Mid-Westchester: $23,600 · OtherJCC of Mid-WestchesterShaare Zedek Medical Center: $18,500 · OtherShaare Zedek Medical CenterOUNCSYYachad: $11,898 · Other+60 more: $84,389 · Other+60 moreEZER MIZION: $11,600 · InternationalEZER MIZIONAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $11,100 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMI…YAD EZRA V'SHULAMIT: $10,028 · InternationalYAD EZRA V'SHU…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NISHMAT INC: $5,540 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIEN…NE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $4,360 · InternationalNE EMAN FOUNDA…COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $2,700 · InternationalCOMMITTEE FOR …+4 more: $1,672 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $5,960 · PhilanthropyTHE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC: $3,600 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $3,550 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $720 · Philanthropy+2 more: $232 · PhilanthropyKEREN HATZEDAKA INC: $8,500 · Human ServicesOORAH INC: $1,050 · Human ServicesLA-ARETZ: $1,000 · Human ServicesCharity Navigator: $1,000 · Human Services+3 more: $355 · Human ServicesTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $4,000 · ReligionMAIMONIDES SHALOM ACADEMY INC: $2,472 · ReligionLev Hachnasat Orchim Inc DBA Lev LA: $1,620 · ReligionGindi Maimonides Academy: $613 · ReligionAmerican Friends of Chabad Vietnam Inc: $540 · ReligionPARK VIEW MINYAN INC: $500 · Religion+1 more: $140 · ReligionWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1,830 · HealthSharsheret Inc: $180 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $72 · HealthNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,800 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$270,083International$47,000Philanthropy$14,062Human Services$11,905Religion$9,885Health$2,082Public Safety & Disaster$1,800

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEZER MIZION: $11,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $11,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYAD EZRA V'SHULAMIT: $10,028 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKEREN HATZEDAKA INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $5,960 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NISHMAT INC: $5,540 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $4,360 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $3,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $2,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAIMONIDES SHALOM ACADEMY INC: $2,472 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1,830 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLev Hachnasat Orchim Inc DBA Lev LA: $1,620 over 2y, 0.4% of budget770 MOSHIACH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,536 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $1,433 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOORAH INC: $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA-ARETZ: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTorat Shraga Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCharity Navigator: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $925 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Chabad Vietnam Inc: $540 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARK VIEW MINYAN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of Aseema Inc: $360 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $214 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHABAD'S CHILDREN OF CHERNOBYL: $180 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI 4EVER INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAN4KIDS: $170 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGENESIS 123 FOUNDATION: $140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $132 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $116 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS BRIDGE OF ZICHRON MENACHEM INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $72 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $18 over 1y, 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 EZER MIZION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC ↗
  • Who funds YAD EZRA V'SHULAMIT ↗
  • Who funds KEREN HATZEDAKA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NISHMAT INC ↗
  • Who funds NE EMAN FOUNDATION USA ↗
  • Who funds TOMCHEI TZEDAKA CORP ↗
  • Who funds THE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds MAIMONIDES SHALOM ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds Lev Hachnasat Orchim Inc DBA Lev LA ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundJewish Federation of …FjcUnited Jewish Communi…Alyad Foundation IncThe Ojc FundMutual of America Fou…Joan S and Leon Meyer…Equifund Organization…The Ari & Cheryl Pear…Alice G Hanson Family…Dinim Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY36.3× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Fjc · United Jewish Community of Broward County Inc · Alyad Foundation Inc · The Ojc Fund · Mutual of America Foundation · Joan S and Leon Meyers Foundation · Equifund Organization Inc · The Ari & Cheryl Pearl Foundation Inc · Alice G Hanson Family Foundation · Dinim 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 Silberman Aqua Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Silberman Aqua Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • 770 Moshiach Community Center Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Chai 4EVER Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Oorah Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
4report 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 100 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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