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The Silverman Family Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Silverman Family Charitable 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.

$92k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$254kHuman Services$200kReligion$164kCivil Rights$127kFood & Nutrition$17kHousing & Shelter$14kArts & Culture$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$6,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Greenwood House$25,000
American Jewish Committee$25,000
The Father Center$6,000
Isles Inc$6,000
Vanderbilt University$6,000
Trenton Area Soup Kitchen$6,000
The Peddie School$5,000
Jewish Family Children's Services$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CWRU$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Anchor House: $3k → 11%The Father Center of New Jersey: $25k → 11%The Father Center of New Jersey: $25k → 11%UIH FAMILY PARTNERS: $6k → 11%UIH FAMILY PARTNERS: $5k → 11%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.
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$559k · 12 repeat orgs$228k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
7

Total granted

$559k
$217k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+71%

Still filing today

42%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’21’22’23’24
EducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionHousing & 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

  • GREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR THE JEWISH AGED
    5× · 2018–2024 · $125k · revenue +26%
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $118k · revenue +116%
  • UIH Family Partners d/b/a The Father Center of New Jersey
    4× · 2017–2022 · $61k · revenue +147%

Funded once

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +64%
  • TH
    THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +71%
  • P
    Pratham
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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 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
2
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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3
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
4
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
5
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
6
Adelphi University

Adelphi university is dedicated to transforming students' lives through small classes, hands-on learning and innovative programs supporting academic and career success.

Education
7
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
9
Manhattanville University

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

Education
10
The New School

The new school's mission is to prepare our students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. (continued on schedule o)

Education
11
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
12
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University; the most unlike its peers is Womens Rehabilitation Group. 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

13 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. 13 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
13/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION OF PRINCETON: $150,000 · OtherUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATI…FOUNDATION ACADEMY: $43,000 · OtherFOUNDATION ACADEMYJewish Family Children's Services: $10,000 · OtherThe Father Center: $8,500 · Other+5 more: $19,000 · Other+5 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL+2 more: $11,000 · EducationGREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR THE JEWISH AGED: $125,000 · HealthGREENWOOD HOUSE H…AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $118,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH C…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Civil RightsUIH Family Partners d/b/a The Father Center of New Jersey: $61,000 · Human ServicesUIH Famil…ANCHOR HOUSE INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc: $16,500 · Food & NutritionISLES INC: $13,500 · Housing & ShelterWHYY INC: $3,700 · Arts & Culture
Other$230,500Education$211,000Health$125,000Civil Rights$123,000Human Services$64,000Food & Nutrition$16,500Housing & Shelter$13,500Arts & Culture$3,700

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR THE JEWISH AGED: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $118,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUIH Family Partners d/b/a The Father Center of New Jersey: $61,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc: $16,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetISLES INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Peddie School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC: $3,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANCHOR HOUSE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS REHABILITATION GROUP: $500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Bristol-Myers Squibb …Princeton Area Commun…Verizon FoundationThe Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation IncNJ13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Silverman Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Silverman Family Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Anchor House Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Isles Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report 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 21 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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