Connecticut · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC
FRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,397,604 to it, the largest being SOUTHWESTERN CT AGENCY ON AGING INC AGENCY ON AGING INC ($487,918). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Incshared funderslocal
- Gemological Institute of America Incportfolio match
- Michael Antonov Charitable Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $39k → $190k.
7 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 61% · 2019 64% · 2020 29% · 2021 29% · 2022 33% · 2023 42% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
53% of FRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
71% of FRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $247k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 29 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Incshared funderslocalCT · backs 48 organizations that share your funders · funds 67 organizations near you
- Gemological Institute of America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michael Antonov Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The James & Barbara Cimino Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brenden Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gracias Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Paul & Elisabeth Merage Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Herbert M & Naomi R Leavitt Family Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Near and Far Association Incshared funderslocalCT · backs 81 organizations that share your funders · funds 117 organizations near you
- The Tudor Foundation Incshared fundersCT · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Incshared fundersDE · backs 53 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC?
- FRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,397,604 to it, the largest being SOUTHWESTERN CT AGENCY ON AGING INC AGENCY ON AGING INC ($487,918). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,397,604 in grants to FRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC?
- SOUTHWESTERN CT AGENCY ON AGING INC AGENCY ON AGING INC is the largest funder on record, with $487,918 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 29funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing