· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ONE HAPPY CAMPER | $10,000 |
| SAINT LOUIS JEWISH LIGHT | $10,000 |
| JUDAISM ALIVE | $7,500 |
| PJ LIBRARY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
How this is measured
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
- CACOMMUNITY AGING CORPORATIONone grant, 2017 · $15k
- CPCOVENANT PLACE FOR TECHNOLOGYone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Silk Foundation Northern Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Silk Foundation Northern Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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