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The Silk Foundation Northern Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $143k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF ST LOUIS | $150,000 |
| JEWISH STUDENT UNION | $70,000 |
| HILLEL AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $65,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $37,500 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| GLADYS & HENRY CROWN CENTER | $25,000 |
| BE THE NARRATIVE | $20,000 |
| JEWISH LEARNING INITIATIVE ON CAMPU | $15,000 |
| SAINT LOUIS JEWISH LIGHT | $10,000 |
| ONE HAPPY CAMPER | $10,000 |
| JUDAISM ALIVE | $7,500 |
| PJ LIBRARY | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $183k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER5× · 2021–2025 · $155k · revenue +20%
- SMSAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH SCHOOL6× · 2017–2022 · $134k · revenue +0%
- SLSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA6× · 2017–2022 · $92k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- ICISREAL CRISIS RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2024 · $57k
- CPCOVENANT PLACE FOR TECHNOLOGYone grant, 2019 · $15k
- OTOpera Theatre of Saint Louisone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -19%
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 mission of hillel at washington university in st louis is to be a catalyst for jewish life among college students in st louis. we connect students with one another and with jewish culture and traditions through service and social…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Advocacy and community service to improve quality of life and to ensure rights and freedoms.
To foster a jewish educational environment to university and college students in the st louis, missouri region through jewish educational and social programming during the academic year.
Jazz st louis is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to lead our community in advancing the uniquely american art of jazz through performance, education, and community engagement.
Transforming lives through musical excellence. the goal of the st. louis children's choirs is to empower the youth of st. louis through a rich choral program that helps each young singer realize their full potential - as a musician and as…
To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Our mission has always been to enhance jewish literacy through the publication of great books.
To sustain and enhance jewish life at home and around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of St Louis and the most unlike its peers is Be the Narrative formerly Student to Student Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 39 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 Jewish Federation of St Louis ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JUDAISM ALIVE DBA JEWISH ROCK RADIO ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Be The Narrative formerly Student to Student Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CROWN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT DOR STL ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Opera Theatre of Saint Louis ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS JEWISH LIGHT ↗
- Who funds RADIO ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA 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: Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · Julian I & Hope R Edison Foundation Inc · The Patriot Foundation · Millstone Foundation · Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation · Centene Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Gladys K Crown Foundation Randall Green Trustee · Aurelia Konrad Charitable Foundation · The Heschel J and Adinah W Raskas Family · The Chod Family 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 Foundation Northern Trust 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.
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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