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STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION

STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 3915 organizations whose IRS filings report $326,196,114 to it, the largest being ESTHER AND HAROLD MERTZ FOUNDATION ($62,152,241). 2240 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$559M
Revenue FY2024
3,915
Funders on record
$326M
Grants received
$501M
Net assets
2240/3915 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%

Against its field

STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 696 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin32% · top quartile
Months of reserve11.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)62% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 696 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($19M) Expenses 100 ($17M) Net assets 100 ($7.8M)2018 Revenue 127 ($24M) Expenses 131 ($22M) Net assets 126 ($9.8M)2019 Revenue 245 ($46M) Expenses 208 ($35M) Net assets 275 ($21M)2020 Revenue 606 ($114M) Expenses 344 ($57M) Net assets 1004 ($78M)2021 Revenue 1408 ($264M) Expenses 887 ($148M) Net assets 2511 ($195M)2022 Revenue 1628 ($305M) Expenses 1723 ($287M) Net assets 2685 ($209M)2023 Revenue 1989 ($373M) Expenses 1636 ($272M) Net assets 4086 ($318M)2024 Revenue 2983 ($559M) Expenses 2290 ($381M) Net assets 6441 ($501M)
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Revenue (2983)Expenses (2290)Net assets (6441)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

96% of STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 729 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.1M
17
$2.1M
18
$11M
19
$56M
20
$116M
21
$19M
22
$101M
23
$178M
24
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02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 39 funders to 1856 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $42M.

233 of 3915 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)47% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $13k from 2 payers (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Mike & Evelyn Walsh Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 3915 funders by total. 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

STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

54% 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 STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION.

19%
largest funder
40%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 65% · 2019 39% · 2020 48% · 2021 14% · 2022 28% · 2023 12%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

65% of STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 50 states in all.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $154M arriving through sponsors registered in 43 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.

03Its place in the field

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 3915 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION

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 New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 2%Fundraising 10%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 33 states

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Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION?
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 3915 organizations whose IRS filings report $326,196,114 to it, the largest being ESTHER AND HAROLD MERTZ FOUNDATION ($62,152,241). 2240 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3915 organizations giving $326,196,114 in grants to STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION, 2240 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION?
ESTHER AND HAROLD MERTZ FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $62,152,241 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 3915funders 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