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The Silvestri Family 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.

$187k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Education$1.3MHealth$243kReligion$92kEnvironment$73kHuman Services$33kRecreation & Sports$20kYouth Development$17kHousing & Shelter$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT HEALTHY MINDS$100,000
GROUP FOR THE EAST END$35,000
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS$25,000
TRUSTEES OF UNIV OF PENN$15,000
VILLA ST FRANCIS$7,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SHANTHI PROJECT: $5k → 11%KODIAK BUILDING PARTNERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 3%SHANTHI PROJECT: $5k → 11%SHANTHI PROJECT: $5k → 11%SHANTHI PROJECT: $3k → 11%SHANTHI PROJECT: $3k → 11%SHANTHI PROJECT: $1k → 11%SHANTHI PROJECT: $1k → 11%COMPREHENSIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 15 repeat orgs$114k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
15

Total granted

$1.3M
$109k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+67%

Still filing today

67%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

  • TS
    THE SPENCE SCHOOL
    5× · 2018–2022 · $333k · revenue +17%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS
    8× · 2018–2025 · $293k · revenue +30%
  • PH
    PROJECT HEALTHY MINDS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $225k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +10%
  • CO
    Children of Fallen Patriots Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +71%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $13k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
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
3
Manhattanville University

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

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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
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
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

8
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

9
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
11
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…

Education
12
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross and the most unlike its peers is Villa St Francis Corp. 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 50 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr19%2%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%83%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,738

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
19/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE — $375,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGETHE SPENCE SCHOOL — $333,000 · EducationTHE SPENCE SCHOOLTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $292,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSSCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC — $155,000 · EducationCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INCAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $64,910 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $52,500 · Education+4 more — $87,000 · Education+4 morePROJECT HEALTHY MINDS — $225,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT HEALTH…NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC — $8,200 · Arts & CulturePENN STATE UNIVERSITY — $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $12,500 · OtherEYElliance — $12,000 · OtherMS SOCIETY (CT) — $10,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT — $10,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF THE CATHOLIC APOSTOLATE IP — $9,000 · OtherCDI — $5,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S DRUG FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherKIDS IN CRISIS INC — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherQUEEN OF THE MOST HOLY ROSARY — $5,000 · Other+2 more — $6,000 · OtherGROUP FOR THE EAST END INC — $72,500 · EnvironmentSHANTHI PROJECT — $23,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMPREHENSIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesKODIAK FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Human ServicesThe Bridge Golf Foundation — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentVilla St Francis Corp — $13,000 · Housing & ShelterLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Health
Education$1,359,910Arts & Culture$233,200Other$124,500Environment$72,500Human Services$43,000Youth Development$20,000Housing & Shelter$13,000Health$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE — $375,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SPENCE SCHOOL — $333,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $292,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HEALTHY MINDS — $225,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC — $155,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGROUP FOR THE EAST END INC — $72,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $64,910 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $52,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHANTHI PROJECT — $23,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetThe Bridge Golf Foundation — $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVilla St Francis Corp — $13,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC — $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC — $8,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKODIAK FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE
  • Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS
  • Who funds PROJECT HEALTHY MINDS
  • Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds GROUP FOR THE EAST END INC
  • Who funds AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds SHANTHI PROJECT
  • Who funds The Bridge Golf Foundation
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation
  • Who funds Villa St Francis Corp
  • Who funds STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC
  • Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC
  • Who funds COMPREHENSIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC
  • Who funds KODIAK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC
  • Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH 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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Silvestri 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 49%
  • Kids in Crisis Inc49% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Silvestri Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Silvestri Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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