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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.

$131k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$260kHealth$118kArts & Culture$54kReligion$22kPhilanthropy$20kInternational$20kHuman Services$17kCivil Rights$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$311k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$51,000
SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FDTN$32,500
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$20,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER$10,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$3,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HELPING HAND: $500 → 8%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $200 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
KS
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$476k · 39 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
20

Total granted

$476k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+14%

Still filing today

69%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LU
    LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $173k · revenue +42%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +34%
  • LA
    Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum
    4× · 2022–2025 · $33k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • GW
    GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HEART & VASCULAR INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • EJ
    EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +11%
  • WE
    WILLS EYE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +55%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
The George Washington University

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…

Education
3
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

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…

Community Improvement
4
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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.

Education
5
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

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.

Education
6
Us Middle East Project Inc

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…

International
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
8
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

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.

Arts & Culture
9
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

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…

Community Improvement
10
Washington & Jefferson College

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.

Education
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc

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…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
30/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $173,200 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $26,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY+3 more: $12,000 · EducationSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FDTN: $72,500 · OtherSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FDTNGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUN…WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION: $11,801 · OtherWASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATIONGEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HEART & VASCULAR INSTITUTE: $10,000 · OtherGEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HEART …AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $8,250 · OtherJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCY: $8,000 · OtherADAS ISRAEL HEBREW CONGREGATION: $6,518 · OtherEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $6,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF PORT ROWING: $6,000 · Other+28 more: $20,480 · Other+28 moreLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $32,500 · Arts & CultureLillian an…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $17,000 · Arts & CultureThe United…+6 more: $1,850 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $19,000 · International+3 more: $1,100 · InternationalTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $15,600 · PhilanthropyHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $5,500 · HealthChildren's Eye Foundation The Foundation Of AAPOS: $3,000 · HealthLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $6,800 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $300 · Civil Rights
Education$261,200Other$169,549Arts & Culture$51,350International$20,100Philanthropy$15,600Health$10,500Civil Rights$7,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $173,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $32,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $15,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $6,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PORT ROWING: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Eye Foundation The Foundation Of AAPOS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJERUSALEM CHESED-CHASDEI HENNY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOOSE CREEK ASSOCIATION: $350 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREPUBLICAN JEWISH COALITION: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA PLACE TO BE: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLEBURG FISH: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA PIEDMONT HERITAGE AREA ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE C MARSHALL INTERNATIONAL CENTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $85 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Luminescence Foun…Louise B Cochrane Cha…Melvin & Estelle Gelm…Duber Family Foundati…Frank Mangano Foundat…Community Foundation …Posner-Wallace Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…
The Luminescence Foundation IncVA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Silver Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Silver Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Silver Family Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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