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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.

$440k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$1.3MReligion$991kEducation$450kHuman Services$350kArts & Culture$284kPublic Safety & Disaster$57kInternational$55kRecreation & Sports$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

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
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 12%NEXT DOR STL: $10k → 21%NEXT DOR STL: $8k → 21%NEXT DOR STL: $10k → 21%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $38k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $38k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 29 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
8

Total granted

$2.8M
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
-19%

Still filing today

38%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    5× · 2021–2025 · $155k · revenue +20%
  • SM
    SAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2022 · $134k · revenue +0%
  • SL
    SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    6× · 2017–2022 · $92k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • IC
    ISREAL CRISIS RELIEF FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $57k
  • CP
    COVENANT PLACE FOR TECHNOLOGY
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • OT
    Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
    one 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.

04Your field

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.

1
Hillel At Washington University in St Louis

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…

2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
National Council of Jewish Women St Louis Section

Advocacy and community service to improve quality of life and to ensure rights and freedoms.

Community Improvement
4
Jewish Learning Experience

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.

5
Jazz St Louis

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.

Arts & Culture
6
The St Louis Children's Choirs

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…

7
Jewish Senior Life

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.

Religion
8
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
9
Thomas Jefferson School

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…

10
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

11
The Jewish Publication Society

Our mission has always been to enhance jewish literacy through the publication of great books.

12
Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City

To sustain and enhance jewish life at home and around the world.

Philanthropy

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION — $600,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATIONHILLEL AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $495,000 · OtherHILLEL AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYJEWISH STUDENT UNION — $341,500 · OtherJEWISH STUDENT UNIONGLADYS & HENRY CROWN CENTER — $140,000 · OtherGLADYS & HENRY CROWN CENTERUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI — $135,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI+20 more — $543,500 · Other+20 moreJewish Federation of St Louis — $730,000 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation of S…SAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH SCHOOL — $134,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $61,000 · EducationJUDAISM ALIVE DBA JEWISH ROCK RADIO — $55,000 · EducationBe The Narrative formerly Student to Student Inc — $40,000 · EducationJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $155,000 · Human ServicesNEXT DOR STL — $27,570 · Human ServicesSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $92,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $22,500 · Arts & CultureOpera Theatre of Saint Louis — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $3,000 · Arts & CultureBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $55,000 · InternationalTHE CROWN CENTER INC — $40,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,255,000Philanthropy$730,000Education$290,000Human Services$182,570Arts & Culture$132,500International$55,000Housing & Shelter$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJewish Federation of St Louis — $730,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $155,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH SCHOOL — $134,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $92,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $61,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUDAISM ALIVE DBA JEWISH ROCK RADIO — $55,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE — $41,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBe The Narrative formerly Student to Student Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetTHE CROWN CENTER INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNEXT DOR STL — $27,570 over 3y, 42% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOpera Theatre of Saint Louis — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS JEWISH LIGHT — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRADIO ARTS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

Sam and Marilyn Fox FoundationMO22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Silk Foundation Northern Trust?

    Find your warmest path to The Silk Foundation Northern Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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