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The Silk 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $261k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $177k
- $250k+1 grant · $289k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNION RESCUE MISSION | $288,500 |
| BASSER CENTER FOR BRCA | $127,000 |
| LAND OF THE FREE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $25,500 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF LA | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $25,000 |
| SWIM WITH MIKE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ULI FOUNDATION | $15,530 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| THE BOWERY MISSION | $15,000 |
| MARCH TO THE TOP - AFRICA | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| SOUTH PASADENA SM YMCA | $10,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE LARE | $10,000 |
| CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER SA | $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, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
51 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $284k 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
- URUNION RESCUE MISSION7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +155%
- LOLAND OF THE FREE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $310k · revenue +52%
- HMHUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES5× · 2018–2022 · $210k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- TLTeam Luke Hope for Mindsgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +27%
- CCCOMMUNITY CANCER FUNDone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -28%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Greater Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is El Dorado Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
98 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. 98 of the 165 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 UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds LAND OF THE FREE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES ↗
- Who funds LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Team Luke Hope for Minds ↗
- Who funds REFOUNDRY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds MARCH TO THE TOP - AFRICA ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CANCER FUND ↗
- Who funds THE ULI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AAREP LA Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LYME ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds San Marino Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds CATALYST MISSIONS GROUP INC ↗
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: Van Konynenburg Foundation · Jay and Carol Borzi Family Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · California Community Foundation · March Family Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Jcs Family Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation
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 Silk Family 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.
- Dismas of Vermont Inc — 39% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
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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