Illinois · Private foundation
The Silver Foundation
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.
- $71k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 35
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $70k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $200
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 43
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $200k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations The Silver Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $390 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 34 | $70k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $45k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $65k | 62% |
| FY2018 | 41 | $99k | n/a |
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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hampshire College Trustees | $82,000 | 4 | 0% |
| William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc | $16,650 | 3 | 0% |
| Care for Real | $4,950 | 2 | 0% |
| Climate Mobilization Project Inc | $3,275 | 3 | 1% |
| Global Lyme Alliance Inc | $3,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $2,025 | 4 | 0% |
| Earthjustice | $2,025 | 4 | 0% |
| Nuclear Energy Information Service | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Northern Illinois University Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($144k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Silver Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Silver Foundation
- How much does The Silver Foundation give?
- The Silver Foundation reported 35 itemized grants totaling $69,620, out of $71,095 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does The Silver Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (11%), Education (11%), Civil Rights (3%).
- Who are The Silver Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Hampshire College Trustees ($82k), William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc ($17k), Care for Real ($5k).
- Does The Silver Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Silver Foundation 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 Silver Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, AbbVie Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
- Where is The Silver Foundation based?
- The Silver Foundation is based in IL.
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