Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
SILVERADO POLICY ACCELERATOR INC
SILVERADO POLICY ACCELERATOR INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,747,792 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($7,143,542). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $911k
What Silverado Policy Accelerator Inc does
Mission
The organization (a) fosters, supports, promotes, and cultivates innovative strategies to confront social welfare challenges within american society and advance american prosperity and global leadership in the twenty-first century and beyond; (b) supports and conducts educational activities, including but not limited to, research, analyses, and convenings to better inform and engage the general public about these challenges and strategies; and (c) supports and conducts other projects and activities in furtherance of the foregoing.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Program events: periodically hosted or participated in events that support the organization's mission by convening issue experts to discuss policy challenges and solutions in its pillar areas. In 2024, for example, silverado hosted its second annual silverado policy accelerator summit, a conference that convenes government, private sector, and non-governmental leaders and experts to address a range of pressing, interconnected national and economic security issues across silverado's pillar areas. Silverado also participated in events hosted by other organizations including the reagan defense forum and the munich security conference.
$1,138,708 spent53% of program spendingResearch and writing: silverado engaged in extensive independent research and writing to educate the public about the policy challenges and potential policy solutions in the organization's substantive pillar areas. Specific activities included writing and publishing articles, reports, and novel data sets as well as desk research and interviews with experts.
$849,392 spent$98,675 earned by the program40% of program spendingGrants to other organizations: provided several grants to 501(c)(3) charitable organizations to support program work that aligns with silverado's mission, including events on trade and american competitiveness.
$152,509 spentof which $152,509 as grants7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,140,609.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $480k to $911k (+90%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
97% of SILVERADO POLICY ACCELERATOR INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Sarah Stewart
Chief executive officer & executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $2.2M.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 SILVERADO POLICY ACCELERATOR 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
SILVERADO POLICY ACCELERATOR INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SILVERADO POLICY ACCELERATOR INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 81% — 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.
Where its funders are
92% of SILVERADO POLICY ACCELERATOR INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $604k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is 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.
Against its field
SILVERADO POLICY ACCELERATOR INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SILVERADO POLICY ACCELERATOR INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Silverado Policy Accelerator Action Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SILVERADO POLICY ACCELERATOR INC?
- SILVERADO POLICY ACCELERATOR INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,747,792 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($7,143,542). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SILVERADO POLICY ACCELERATOR INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $7,747,792 in grants to SILVERADO POLICY ACCELERATOR INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SILVERADO POLICY ACCELERATOR INC?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,143,542 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SILVERADO POLICY ACCELERATOR INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 2 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing