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The Silverbird 29 Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $978k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALL OUR KIN | $300,000 |
| ASHOKA FELLOW PROGRAMS | $200,000 |
| ARBOR BROTHERS INC | $150,000 |
| FAITHFACTS FOR EDUCATION | $100,000 |
| ROOM TO READ | $100,000 |
| STUDENT DIPLOMACY CORPS | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION | $78,333 |
| INTEMPO ORGANIZATION INC | $50,000 |
| BRIDGEPORT YOUTH LACROSSE | $50,000 |
| Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc | $50,000 |
| YOUTH BUSINESS INITIATIVE INC | $50,000 |
| KITES NEST | $50,000 |
| UPDAYA ORHANIZATION FOR KARUNA TRAINING | $30,000 |
| RYASAP | $25,000 |
| WHOLESCHOOL MINDFULNESS | $25,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% 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.
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.
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
To ensure that every student can become a confident, independent, and lifelong reader by partnering with schools and communities to provide personalized, evidence-based literacy support and individualized instruction. the organization…
City year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. partnering with teachers, teams of city year americorps members cultivate learning…
Readyct works to advance academic excellence and career-connected learning for all public school students in connecticut through collaboration with business, civic, and education leaders.
Youth communication elevates teen voices to create real change. through the power of true stories, written by youth who have been systemically marginalized, we create more supportive and successful learning communities. youth…
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
Our mission is to facilitate culturally responsive, multidisciplinary art programs for students, teaching artists, and communities to develop and amplify their voices and creative skills.
To promote innovative solutions to education challenges and inspire action that creates positive, sustainable futures for children and youth worldwide
To provide a holistic, multidisciplinary education to learners of all abilities
Social Impact Partners ("SIP") is an innovative nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the opportunity divide in Connecticut by expanding pathways to living wage jobs and economic mobility for all, working with partners across the…
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellbeing Action for Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shred Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 21. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 49 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 ALL OUR KIN INC ↗
- Who funds ARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds FAITHACTS FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT DIPLOMACY CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT YOUTH LACROSSE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH BUSINESS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds KITE'S NEST INC ↗
- Who funds INTEMPO ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds WholeSchool Mindfulness Inc ↗
- Who funds CATALYST CT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WELLBEING ACTION FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds SHRED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC ↗
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Tauck Family Foundation · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Silverbird 29 Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Child Care of the Berkshires Inc — 59% of income from government
- Catalyst Ct Inc — 37% of income from government
- Youth Business Initiative — 36% of income from government
- Bridgeport Youth Lacrosse Inc — 5% of income from government
- Community Access to the Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Intempo Organization Inc — 2% of income from government
- All Our Kin Inc — 1% 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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