· Private foundation
The Silver Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $51,000 |
| SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FDTN | $32,500 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER | $10,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $3,000 |
| CAPITAL JEWISH MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCY | $2,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $1,800 |
| WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION | $1,800 |
| HOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
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 (FY22–22, $700) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +25% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 29 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $173k · revenue +42%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +34%- LALillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum4× · 2022–2025 · $33k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- GWGEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HEART & VASCULAR INSTITUTEone grant, 2024 · $10k
- EJEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INCone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +11%
- WEWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +55%
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 the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Yivo's mission is to study the thousand-year history of jewish life in eastern europe and russia in all its aspects: language, history, religion, folkways and material culture. yivo's archive and library preserves a significant collection…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 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. 41 of the 61 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 LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PORT ROWING ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Eye Foundation The Foundation Of AAPOS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JERUSALEM CHESED-CHASDEI HENNY ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
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: The Luminescence Foundation Inc · Louise B Cochrane Charitable Founda · Melvin & Estelle Gelman Foundation · Duber Family Foundation · Frank Mangano Foundation · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · Posner-Wallace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Silver Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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