· Private foundation
The Slomo and Cindy Silvian 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k111 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF YASHAR L'CHAYAL | $35,000 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $35,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NC | $34,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $31,000 |
| SURVIVOR MITZVAH PROJECT | $30,000 |
| CITY HARVEST | $28,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC | $27,500 |
| COMMUNITY SECURITY SERVICES | $27,000 |
| NOTE IN THE POCKET | $25,500 |
| LEADING EDGE PRODUCTIONS | $25,500 |
| COLEL CHABAD | $25,500 |
| SHARSHERET | $25,000 |
| JEWELS SCHOOL INC | $25,000 |
| JEWISH ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE OPTIONS | $25,000 |
| LONG ISLAND CARES INC | $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 (FY19–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
179 repeat relationships — 85 still active in FY2024, 94 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $416k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC4× · 2021–2024 · $194k · revenue +55%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM3× · 2020–2023 · $172k · revenue +198%
- RTREBUILDING TOGETHER LONG ISLAND INC5× · 2019–2024 · $160k · revenue +194%
Funded once
- SASHAKE A LEG MIAMI INCone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -32%
- ACAMERICAN COMMITTEE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCEone grant, 2019 · $55k
- SBSAINT BERNARD PROJECT INCone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
To further jewish education in israel
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
Furtherance of jewish education
To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.
Religious School
Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide educational and social improvement for the children of kiryat arba, israel.
To educate, enrich and empower visually impaired people across israel to achieve their full potential and become contributing members of society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York University. 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 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% 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.
189 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. 189 of the 292 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER LONG ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HARVEST LTD ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ALS INC ↗
- Who funds EZER MIZION ↗
- Who funds Pets are Wonderful Support Inc dba PAWS ↗
- Who funds Friends of Yashar L'Chayal Inc ↗
- Who funds Survivor Mitzvah Project ↗
- Who funds JEWELS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR SERVICES FOR THE AGED ↗
- Who funds HOUR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD LEAH INC ↗
- Who funds JBI INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SINAI SPECIAL NEEDS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ZION ORPHANAGE INC ↗
- Who funds HAKSHIVA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MESHI INC ↗
- Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
- Who funds SANDIA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds ADMIRAL FARRAGUT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MENACHEM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SEEACH SODE INC ↗
- Who funds MINCHAS ASHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Helping Israel Fund ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA KTANA OF PASSAIC ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Cross River Community Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Fjc · The Ojc Fund · Swieca Children Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The J W Foundation · Alyad Foundation Inc · Traditional Fund Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Nash Family 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 Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation Inc 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
- Yeshiva Tiferes Boruch — 2% of income from government
- Jewels School Inc — 2% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% of income from government
- Yehudi Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Holocaust Museum Inc — 0% 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.