California · Private foundation
The Silver Lining Foundation
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.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,043,211
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 45
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $41M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 6% of the organizations The Silver Lining Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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 | 41 | $2.7M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $2.5M | 6% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $2.9M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $2.8M | 29% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $3.4M | 45% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $2.7M | 14% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $2.8M | 25% |
| FY2017 | 32 | $2.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The California Education Partners | $6,852,330 | 8 | 27% |
| Children Now | $2,085,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Occidental College | $1,440,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Parent Teacher Home Visits | $775,000 | 7 | 20% |
| Borealis Philanthropy | $750,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Edsource Inc | $675,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Trellis | $650,000 | 4 | 21% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $550,000 | 2 | n/a |
| American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences | $450,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Silver Lining Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 68 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Esb Charitable Foundation · Robert and Ruth Halperin Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund · The James Irvine Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · East Bay Community Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Silver Lining Foundation
- How much does The Silver Lining Foundation give?
- The Silver Lining Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $2,806,461 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Silver Lining Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (62%), Civil Rights (11%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are The Silver Lining Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The California Education Partners ($6.9M), Children Now ($2.1M), Occidental College ($1.4M).
- Does The Silver Lining Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Silver Lining 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 Lining Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The Heising-Simons Foundation.
- Where is The Silver Lining Foundation based?
- The Silver Lining Foundation is based in CA.
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