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The Silver Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Silver Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$325k
Granted FY2024still arriving
63
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$498kHealth$290kReligion$208kEducation$152kArts & Culture$115kHuman Services$107kCivil Rights$65kHousing & Shelter$49kOther$0
02FY2024 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k58 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $169k
$1,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$13k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HELD GSO INC$90,000
THE VALERIE FUND$78,515
CHABAD OF MONTCLAIR$30,222
CONGREGATION SHOMREI EMUNAH$20,063
TONI'S KITCHEN$15,716
Individual grant recipient$6,500
ROTARY-KIWANIS STREET FAIR$5,000
WFMU$5,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING$4,980
Individual grant recipient$4,600
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$4,320
NEWARK ACADEMY$4,014
BETH EL SYNAGOGUE$3,600
CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK CITY$3,600
MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM$3,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $4k → 7%THE CITIZEN'S FOUNDATION: $371 → 16%HELD GSO INC: $90k → 16%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $2k → 7%INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER: $36k → 16%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $2k → 7%ZAKA SEARCH & RESCUE: $1k → 20%HELD GSO INC: $4k → 16%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $2k → 7%ZAKA SEARCH & RESCUE: $738 → 20%DOROT: $540 → 17%DOROT: $540 → 17%SUCCEED2GETHER: $1k → 16%SUCCEED2GETHER: $1k → 16%SUCCEED2GETHER: $1k → 16%YMCA OF MONTCLAIR: $1k → 16%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

WA
MN
MI
NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
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.
$1.5M · 60 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
72

Total granted

$1.5M
$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+25%

Still filing today

65%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TV
    THE VALERIE FUND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $249k · revenue +108%
  • HG
    HELD GSO INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $94k · revenue +288% · 30% of their budget
  • OM
    OUT MONTCLAIR INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $63k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • THE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $36k · revenue +20%
  • BE
    BETH EL SYNAGOGUE
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • MA
    MONTCLAIR AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -12%
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
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
2
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
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
5
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
9
Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital

Mission: to heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve. values: humanity, innovation, teamwork, diversity and equity - our values define our philosophy of care. they shape our actions and motivate and…

Health
10
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
11
Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy
12
Northwell Health Foundation

Northwell health foundation inc. is dedicated toward helping donors, patients, and leaders link their vision and philanthropic support toward helping the underserved and uninsured, advancing the latest frontiers in medical technology and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Montclair Art Museum; the most unlike its peers is Stuttering Foundation of America. 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

90 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. 90 of the 155 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/90
Grantees still filing
60/90
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TONI'S KITCHEN: $497,518 · OtherTONI'S KITCHENTHE VALERIE FUND: $249,221 · OtherTHE VALERIE FUNDCONGREGATION SHOMREI EMUNAH: $93,099 · OtherCONGREGATION SHOMREI EMUNAH+110 more: $338,221 · Other+110 moreHELD GSO INC: $93,600 · Human ServicesHELD GSO I…THE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $36,000 · Human ServicesTHE INTERA…PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC: $9,271 · Human ServicesPATIENT AI…+5 more: $7,248 · Human ServicesRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $61,000 · EducationRUTGERS U…NEWARK ACADEMY: $50,070 · EducationNEWARK AC…Cornell University: $6,120 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG: $4,904 · Education+7 more: $9,606 · Education+7 moreOUT MONTCLAIR INC: $63,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $1,720 · Civil RightsMONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC: $35,768 · Arts & CultureTHE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM: $9,750 · Arts & CultureTHE SANDY HOOK FOUNDATION INC: $2,844 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $2,207 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $3,545 · Arts & CultureTHE MONTCLAIR FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $17,500 · PhilanthropyPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $8,855 · PhilanthropyPROVIDENT CHARITIES INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CODEY FUND FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC: $1,400 · PhilanthropyCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK CITY INC: $8,960 · Community ImprovementMONTCLAIR CENTER CORPORATION: $7,880 · Community ImprovementTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MONTCLAIR- NEWARK INC: $6,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $460 · Community Improvement
Other$1,178,059Human Services$146,119Education$131,700Civil Rights$64,720Arts & Culture$54,114Philanthropy$29,755Community Improvement$23,300

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 budgetTHE VALERIE FUND: $249,221 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetHELD GSO INC: $93,600 over 2y, 30% of budgetOUT MONTCLAIR INC: $63,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $61,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEWARK ACADEMY: $50,070 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $36,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC: $35,768 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MONTCLAIR FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $17,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetROTARY KIWANIS CALDWELL STREET FAIR INC: $15,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetJEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH JERSEY INC: $14,660 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetTHE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM: $9,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $9,706 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC: $9,271 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK CITY INC: $8,960 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $8,855 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMontclair Foundation Inc: $8,800 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMONTCLAIR CENTER CORPORATION: $7,880 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $7,387 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMONTCLAIR SHARED HOUSING ASSOCIATION INC: $6,518 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCornell University: $6,120 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MONTCLAIR- NEWARK INC: $6,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $5,123 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ANDERSON PARK: $5,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetMONTCLAIR AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $4,904 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALDWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $4,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetRutgers Hillel Corporation: $3,707 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUCCEED2GETHER INC: $3,059 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMONTCLAIR CELEBRATES JULY 4TH INC: $3,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetUNION COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SANDY HOOK FOUNDATION INC: $2,844 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,592 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCU BOULDER HILLEL FOUNDATION: $2,578 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION: $2,578 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCohome Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $2,207 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENT CHARITIES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEILICHER FOUNDATION: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTCLAIR EARLY CHILDHOOD CORP MONTCLAIR COMMUNITY PRE-K: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTCLAIR POLICE FOUNDATION CORP: $1,800 over 1y, 35% of budgetIsrael Magen Fund Inc: $1,738 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $1,683 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CODEY FUND FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC: $1,400 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET: $1,156 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $1,080 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUNA STAGE COMPANY INC: $1,030 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds THE VALERIE FUND ↗
  • Who funds HELD GSO INC ↗
  • Who funds OUT MONTCLAIR INC ↗
  • Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEWARK ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MONTCLAIR FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY KIWANIS CALDWELL STREET FAIR INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH JERSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ↗
  • Who funds Montclair Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MONTCLAIR CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds MONTCLAIR SHARED HOUSING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MONTCLAIR- NEWARK INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ANDERSON PARK ↗
  • Who funds MONTCLAIR AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds CALDWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds Rutgers Hillel Corporation ↗

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.

Partners for Health I…Investors Foundation …The Hyde and Watson F…Sonder FoundationAmerican Express Foun…Community Foundation …Susan V Bershad Chari…JOHN J & ROSE CALI FA…The Scholl Family Fou…Schumann Fund for New…The Rockefeller Found…S&P Global Foundation…
Partners for Health IncNJ26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Partners for Health Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Sonder Foundation · American Express Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Susan V Bershad Charitable Fund Inc · JOHN J & ROSE CALI FAMILY FOUNDATION co CALI FUTURES · The Scholl Family Foundation Inc · Schumann Fund for New Jersey Inc · The Rockefeller Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation

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 · 260%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Family Promise of Essex County Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Hht Foundation: 30% of income from government
  • Montclair Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • The Montclair Art Museum: 11% of income from government
  • Montclair Film Festival Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Montclair Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Montclair Ambulance Unit: 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
26get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 155 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home