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Tortora Sillcox Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$3.6MReligion$3.6MCrime & Legal$1.5MHuman Services$1.0MArts & Culture$275kCivil Rights$250kPhilanthropy$4Other$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $1,820,875, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,919,632 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $98,757 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $76k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $787k
  • $250k+3 grants · $950k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Safe Passage Project Corporation$400,000
Central American Refugee Center Carecen$275,000
State University of New York College at Farmingdale Foundation$275,000
Stony Brook Foundation Inc$200,000
Hofstra University$162,000
Make the Road New York$125,000
Queens College Foundation Inc$100,000
Old Westbury College Foundation Inc$100,000
Nassau Community College Foundation Inc$50,000
Immigrant Justice Corps Inc$50,000
Hofstra University$38,875
Hofstra University$37,500
Central American Refugee Center Carecen Ny$7,500
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 15 repeat orgs$283k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
1

Total granted

$10M
$4

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $283k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SU
    STATE UNIVERSITY OF NY COLLEGE AT FARMINGDALE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +176%
  • SP
    SAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +59%
  • IJ
    IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $475k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • CP
    CONTRIBUTIONS PAID THROUGH K-1 EIN 20-8025906
    one grant, 2020 · $4
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.

03Its field

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.

1
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
2
The City University of New York School of Law Foundation Inc

The foundation supports the law school in its mission to increase access to legal education to those from groups underrepresented in the profession and to prepare its graduates for public interest and public service practice.

Education
3
The College of Staten Island Foundation Inc

The foundation was established to stimulate and strengthen community,corporate and foundation support for public higher education on staten island and to support the college of staten island in providing its students with the finest…

Education
4
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
New York University School of Law Foundation

The foundation, a subsidiary of new york university, fosters legal education and research at new york university's school of law by awarding scholarships, making grants for educational purposes related to law, and supporting programs of…

Education
8
State University of New York At Oneonta Foundation Corporation

To support and strengthen the fundraising programs of the state university of new york at oneonta so that gifts and grants are raised for student scholarships, faculty/student research, lectureships, and numerous academic and institutional…

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9
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Syracuse University

Organization's missionas a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, syracuse university faculty and…

Education
11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Hudson Valley Community College Foundation

To receive and maintain funds to aid and advance the welfare, development, purposes and programs of hudson valley community college, its students and alumni.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Queens College Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is State University of Ny College At Farmingdale Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 18 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KADAMPA MEDITATION CENTER NY: $3,579,166 · OtherKADAMPA MEDITATION CENTER NYCentral American Refuge Center: $725,000 · OtherCentral American Refuge CenterIndividual grant recipient: $401,342 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOLD WESTBURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · OtherTHE ROAD NEW YORK OPERATING ACCOUNT 301 GROVE ST: $275,000 · OtherCentral American Refugee Center Carecen: $275,000 · OtherHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY DISBURSEMENT: $227,500 · OtherQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · Other+1 more: $4 · OtherSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NY COLLEGE AT FARMINGDALE FOUNDATION: $1,225,000 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NY COLLEGE…NASSAU COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $750,000 · EducationNASSAU COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND…HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $448,875 · EducationHOFSTRA UNIVERSITYSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · EducationSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INCQUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FUND INC: $150,000 · EducationSAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION: $1,000,000 · Crime & LegalSAFE PASSAGE PROJE…IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC: $475,000 · Crime & LegalIMMIGRANT JUSTICE …Make the Road New York: $250,000 · Crime & LegalMake the Road New …CENTRAL AMERICAN REFUGEE CENTER CARECEN NY: $7,500 · Human Services
Other$5,983,012Education$2,873,875Crime & Legal$1,725,000Human Services$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF NY COLLEGE AT FARMINGDALE FOUNDATION: $1,225,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION: $1,000,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetNASSAU COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $750,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetIMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC: $475,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $448,875 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOLD WESTBURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetMake the Road New York: $250,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetQUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FUND INC: $150,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budget
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.

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.

The New York Communit…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The New York Community TrustNY19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2026) is on record and reports $1.4M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2025, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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