· Public charity
Silverman Family Foundation
To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as arizona community foundation remains a qualified organization.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $265,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $300,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k15 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $50,000 |
| DETOUR CO THEATRE | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TEMPLE SOLEL | $20,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PARTNERS FOR PAIUTE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER | $15,000 |
| HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE AND SPCA | $15,000 |
| MARICOPA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| SCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC | $12,500 |
| SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $10,000 |
| BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MENTORKIDS USA | $10,000 |
| VALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| 100 CLUB OF ARIZONA | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Silverman Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in AZ; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HFHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +31%
University of Arizona Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +109%- SCSCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PARTNERS9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- ANA NEW LEAFgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +107%
- AOARC OF ARIZONA INCone grant, 2020 · $10k
- TCTHE CHARRO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +20%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.
To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.
ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.
To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.
Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.
To inspire, educate and engage curious minds through science.
Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…
To celebrate excellence and cultivate opportunity in pk-12th grade arizona public education.
Science foundation arizona's mission is to diversify arizona's economy by investing in scientific and engineering research linked to industry needs and investing in education to create a work force with 21st centrury skills.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Detour Company Theater Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 29 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 HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds DETOUR COMPANY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds MARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT FOR VETS ↗
- Who funds 100 CLUB OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Arizona Humane Society ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HEARD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Arizona Small Dog Rescue ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SCOTTSDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds MentorKids USA ↗
- Who funds A NEW LEAF ↗
- Who funds ARC OF ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARRO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME NETWORK INC DBA DSNetwork ↗
- Who funds TEMPE UNION HIGH SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · John F Long Foundation Inc · Thunderbirds Charities · Scottsdale Arts · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Silverman Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.