Missouri · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations The Silk Foundation Northern Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $290k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $297k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $211k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $337k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $241k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $398k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $390k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $389k | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Community Center | $155,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Saul Mirowitz Jewish School | $134,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra | $92,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Washington University | $61,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Judaism Alive Dba Jewish Rock Radio | $55,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
| St Louis Psychoanalytic Institute | $41,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Be The Narrative formerly Student to Student Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 17% |
| The Crown Center Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Congregation Temple Israel | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Community Center | $155,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Saul Mirowitz Jewish School | $134,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra | $92,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Washington University | $61,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Judaism Alive Dba Jewish Rock Radio | $55,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
| St Louis Psychoanalytic Institute | $41,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Be The Narrative formerly Student to Student Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 17% |
| The Crown Center Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Congregation Temple Israel | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Next Dor Stl | $27,570 | 3 | 42% |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc | $22,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation Inc | $20,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Opera Theatre of Saint Louis | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Louis Jewish Light | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Radio Arts Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Louis Regional Public Media Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Silk Foundation Northern Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About The Silk Foundation Northern Trust
- How much does The Silk Foundation Northern Trust give?
- The Silk Foundation Northern Trust reported 12 grants totaling $440,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Silk Foundation Northern Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (35%), Religion (27%), Education (12%).
- Who are The Silk Foundation Northern Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Community Center ($155k), Saul Mirowitz Jewish School ($134k), Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra ($92k).
- Does The Silk Foundation Northern Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Silk Foundation Northern Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Silk Foundation Northern Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation, The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation, Julian I & Hope R Edison Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Silk Foundation Northern Trust based?
- The Silk Foundation Northern Trust is based in MO.
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