New York · Private foundation
Tortora Sillcox Family Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.8M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 11
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Tortora Sillcox Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $436k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $1.8M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $1.3M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $2.6M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $4.5M | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $204k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $197k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| State University of Ny College at Farmingdale Foundation | $1,225,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Safe Passage Project Corporation | $1,000,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Nassau Community College Foundation Inc | $750,000 | 4 | 34% |
| Immigrant Justice Corps Inc | $475,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Hofstra University | $448,875 | 2 | 0% |
| Stony Brook Foundation Inc | $300,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Old Westbury College Foundation Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 27% |
| Make the Road New York | $250,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Queens College Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Queensborough Community College Fund Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 6% |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| State University of Ny College at Farmingdale Foundation | $1,225,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Safe Passage Project Corporation | $1,000,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Nassau Community College Foundation Inc | $750,000 | 4 | 34% |
| Immigrant Justice Corps Inc | $475,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Hofstra University | $448,875 | 2 | 0% |
| Stony Brook Foundation Inc | $300,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Old Westbury College Foundation Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 27% |
| Make the Road New York | $250,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Queens College Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Queensborough Community College Fund Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Central American Refugee Center Carecen Ny | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Tortora Sillcox Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Tortora Sillcox Family Foundation
- How much does Tortora Sillcox Family Foundation give?
- Tortora Sillcox Family Foundation reported 13 itemized grants totaling $1,820,875, out of $1,919,632 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Tortora Sillcox Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Religion (19%), Crime & Legal (8%).
- Who are Tortora Sillcox Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: State University of Ny College at Farmingdale Foundation ($1.2M), Safe Passage Project Corporation ($1.0M), Nassau Community College Foundation Inc ($750k).
- Does Tortora Sillcox Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tortora Sillcox Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tortora Sillcox Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Tortora Sillcox Family Foundation based?
- Tortora Sillcox Family Foundation is based in NY.
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