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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.

$812k
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$289k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.3MEducation$641kPhilanthropy$380kHuman Services$349kYouth Development$285kInternational$175kReligion$167kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $261k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $177k
  • $250k+1 grant · $289k
$7,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE BOWERY MISSION$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
MARCH TO THE TOP - AFRICA$15,000
SOUTH PASADENA SM YMCA$10,000
THE ASIA SOCIETY$10,000
HOPESTREAM COMMUNITY$10,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$10,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $289k → 14%OPERATION HEALING SOURCES: $1k → 13%COMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $50k → 12%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $271k → 14%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $196k → 14%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $171k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $125k → 14%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $100k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $75k → 14%SAN MARINO JUNIOR ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%SAN MARINO JUNIOR ALLIANCE: $600 → 14%TOBERMAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $2k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $2k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $2k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $2k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $2k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $2k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $2k → 14%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

VT
WA
ID
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
GA
TX
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 51 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
87

Total granted

$4.4M
$890k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+25%

Still filing today

61%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $284k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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

  • UR
    UNION RESCUE MISSION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +155%
  • LO
    LAND OF THE FREE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $310k · revenue +52%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    3× · 2022–2024 · $138k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • TL
    Team Luke Hope for Mindsgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +27%
  • CC
    COMMUNITY CANCER FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -28%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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
California Dental Association Foundation

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.

Science & Tech
2
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
3
City of Hope

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

Health
4
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
5
Altamed Health Services Corporation

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.

Health
6
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

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.

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8
Association of California School Administrators

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.

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9
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
10
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
11
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Greater Los Angeles; 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.
04the grantee network

98 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. 98 of the 165 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/98
Grantees still filing
54/98
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIES: $210,000 · OtherHARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIESIndividual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $174,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOUTH PASADENA SAN MARINO YMCA: $152,750 · OtherSOUTH PASADENA SAN MARINO YMCASAN MARINO COMMUNITY CHURCH PRESBYTERIAN A CORP: $133,125 · OtherBASSER CENTER FOR BRCA: $127,000 · OtherREFOUNDRY INC: $120,000 · OtherTHE HELP GROUP: $117,500 · Other+97 more: $1,328,155 · Other+97 moreUNION RESCUE MISSION: $1,226,500 · Human ServicesUNION RESCUE MISSIONCOMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $50,000 · Human Services+7 more: $78,600 · Human Services+7 moreHUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES: $210,000 · HealthHUNTINGTON MEDI…LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $185,000 · HealthLUPUS RESEARCH …Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $137,500 · HealthChildren's Hosp…Team Luke Hope for Minds: $125,000 · HealthTeam Luke Hope …PROJECT LYME: $30,000 · Health+13 more: $104,500 · Health+13 moreUCLA FOUNDATION: $141,200 · EducationUCLA FOUNDA…VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES: $134,999 · EducationVILLA ESPER…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $47,750 · EducationTRUSTEES OF…AAREP LA Inc: $30,000 · EducationSan Marino Schools Foundation: $25,000 · EducationSWIM WITH MIKE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Education+8 more: $83,967 · Education+8 moreLAND OF THE FREE FOUNDATION: $310,000 · PhilanthropyOne World Childrens Fund: $25,000 · Philanthropy+6 more: $35,250 · PhilanthropyYOUNG LIFE: $107,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLos Angeles Team Mentoring Inc: $6,250 · Youth Development+1 more: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentMARCH TO THE TOP - AFRICA: $89,029 · InternationalTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $10,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $5,000 · International+1 more: $1,000 · International
Other$2,562,530Human Services$1,355,100Health$792,000Education$587,916Philanthropy$370,250Youth Development$138,250International$115,029

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $1,226,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetLAND OF THE FREE FOUNDATION: $310,000 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetHUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES: $210,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $185,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $141,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $137,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES: $134,999 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTeam Luke Hope for Minds: $125,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetREFOUNDRY INC: $120,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $107,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH TO THE TOP - AFRICA: $89,029 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $51,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $51,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ULI FOUNDATION: $49,590 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $47,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION: $34,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT LYME: $30,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetAAREP LA Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES WATERKEEPER: $25,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCATALYST MISSIONS GROUP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetSan Marino Schools Foundation: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSWIM WITH MIKE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOne World Childrens Fund: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKCRW FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget826LA: $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGiant Steps Illinois Inc: $16,667 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Violence Law Center: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPasadena Hospital Association Ltd: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget826 Valencia: $14,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetABILITYFIRST: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK CITY INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNational Caregiving Foundation: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEL DORADO FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetNEW SCHOOL FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 13% 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 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 PROJECT LYME ↗
  • Who funds AAREP LA Inc ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES WATERKEEPER ↗
  • Who funds CATALYST MISSIONS GROUP 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.

Van Konynenburg Found…Jay and Carol Borzi F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…California Community …March Family Foundati…The Annenberg Foundat…Pasadena Community Fo…Weingart FoundationJcs Family FoundationThe Rose Hills Founda…Orange County Communi…The Ahmanson Foundati…
Van Konynenburg FoundationCA32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Silk Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Silk Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Silk Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Silk Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 165 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home