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William a and Edna C Silverman Charitable Fund 2038107

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.

$105k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2026
9
Organizations funded FY2025
56%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$14,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$28,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2021 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
4
Total assets, FY2026
$143k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 56% of the organizations William a and Edna C Silverman Charitable Fund 2038107 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsScience & TechCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving7$105k43%
FY20259$95k56%
FY20245$44k20%
FY20233$9k67%
FY20223$36k33%
FY20212$5kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$65kRecreation & Sports$58kHuman Services$33kHealth$8kYouth Development$8kScience & Tech$8kEducation$8kCivil Rights$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley$64,00060%
Upper Valley Trails Alliance$53,00045%
LISTEN Lebanon in Service to Each Neighbor$29,00030%
Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports$25,50030%
Yad Ezra$14,50020%
Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc$14,00012%
Mount Washington Observatory$8,00010%
Mentoring Project of the Uppervalley Inc$8,0001n/a
Good Neighbor Health Clinic Inc$7,0001n/a
The Civil Conversations Project$2,00013%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($69k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget William a and Edna C Silverman Charitable Fund 2038107 supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSecond Harvest of Silicon Valley: $64,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUpper Valley Trails Alliance: $53,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetLISTEN Lebanon in Service to Each Neighbor: $29,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVermont Adaptive Ski and Sports: $25,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetYad Ezra: $14,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMt Ascutney Outdoors Inc: $14,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMount Washington Observatory: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Civil Conversations Project: $2,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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About William a and Edna C Silverman Charitable Fund 2038107

How much does William a and Edna C Silverman Charitable Fund 2038107 give?
William a and Edna C Silverman Charitable Fund 2038107 reported 7 grants totaling $105,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
What does William a and Edna C Silverman Charitable Fund 2038107 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (34%), Recreation & Sports (31%), Human Services (18%).
Who are William a and Edna C Silverman Charitable Fund 2038107's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Second Harvest of Silicon Valley ($64k), Upper Valley Trails Alliance ($53k), LISTEN Lebanon in Service to Each Neighbor ($29k).
Does William a and Edna C Silverman Charitable Fund 2038107 fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does William a and Edna C Silverman Charitable Fund 2038107 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 William a and Edna C Silverman Charitable Fund 2038107?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is William a and Edna C Silverman Charitable Fund 2038107 based?
William a and Edna C Silverman Charitable Fund 2038107 is based in ME.

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 14 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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