· Private foundation
The W J Silverstein Family Trust Inc
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The W J Silverstein Family Trust Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Bank Of America Charitable Gift Fd, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The W J Silverstein Family Trust Inc named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $680k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $360k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| US SOCCER FEDERATION FOUNDATION INC | $300,000 |
| NEGOTIATION STRATEGIES INSTITUTE | $120,000 |
| OLD-GROWTH FOREST NETWORK INC | $80,000 |
| KNOW AGENDA FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| PEACE FIRST INC | $50,000 |
| GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC | $50,000 |
| INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC | $10,000 |
| SMOOOTH INC | $5,000 |
| ADIRONDACK ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE INC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NSNEGOTIATION STRATEGIES INSTITUTE5× · 2018–2023 · $530k · revenue +130%
- OFOLD-GROWTH FOREST NETWORK INC6× · 2018–2023 · $480k · revenue +215% · 36% of their budget
- SJSOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK INC2× · 2018–2019 · $100k · revenue +74%
Funded once
PEACE IN SCHOOLSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $115k · revenue +156%- PPPixie Project Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +30%
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.
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.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…
Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.
The international peace institute (ipi) bridges policy and real-world diplomacy, advising global leaders and shaping innovative policy solutions across the multilateral system, governments, and beyond through independent research and…
Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
Development gateway (dg) creates tools and design processes that help collect, visualize, and use data for a more equitable world. for 20 years, we have built systems, dashboards, and tools to create more effective, open, and engaging…
To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.
To reinvent how public, private and social interests converge to address global challenges.
The quincy institute promotes ideas that move u.s. foreign policy away from endless war and toward vigorous diplomacy in the pursuit of international peace. qi's staff and non-resident experts expose the costs and consequences of…
Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.
The SDSN Association works to mobilize the world's universities for action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement; empower societies through free online education; and translate scientific evidence and ideas…
The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEGOTIATION STRATEGIES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds OLD-GROWTH FOREST NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MAMA HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds Know Agenda Foundation ↗
- Who funds PEACE IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Pixie Project Inc ↗
- Who funds S M O O O T H INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The W J Silverstein Family Trust Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The W J Silverstein Family Trust Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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