Silberstein Family Foundation
Brooklandville, MD · EIN 81-4807098. Reported 132 grants totalling $593,350 to 57 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Silberstein Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $5,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $75,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mcdonogh School | Owings Mills, MD | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women | Baltimore, MD | $62,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wilderness Leadership and Learning | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Children's Skin Disease Foundation | Walnut Creek, CA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Washington & Lee University | Lexington, VA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Dravet Syndrome Foundation | Cherry Hill, NJ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| One Tail at a Time | Chicago, IL | $23,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Gerstell Academy | Finksburg, MD | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mercy | Baltimore, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Associated Jewish Federation of Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $15,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Chana Race Against Abuse | Pikesville, MD | $13,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Baltimore Community Foundation | Baltimore, MD | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago | Chicago, IL | $12,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Upsurge Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Ulman Foundation | Baltimore, MD | $9,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation | Chicago, IL | $9,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Baltimore Life Coaches | Baltimore, MD | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Heart Association | Baltimore, MD | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Compass Inc | Beltsville, MD | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gb Charities | Lutherville, MD | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Green Turtle Cay Foundation | Leesburg, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Turnaround | Baltimore, MD | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Barb Schmidt Fellowship | Boca Raton, FL | $4,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| College Bound Foundation | Baltimore, MD | $4,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Gilman School | Baltimore, MD | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Intersection of Change | Baltimore, MD | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wake Forest University | Winstonsalem, NC | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Baltimore, MD | $3,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Second City Canine Rescue | Palatine, IL | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Sparrow Ministries | Timonium, MD | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Jimmy Fund (dana Farber Cancer Institute) | Boston, MA | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hollins University | Roanoke, VA | $2,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| My Block My Hood My City | Chicago, IL | $2,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Signal 13 Foundation | Baltimore, MD | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $2,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Business Volunteers | Baltimore, MD | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Paws Chicago | Chicago, IL | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society | Rye Brook, NY | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Young Life | Harlan, IA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Chicago Hopes for Kids | Chicago, IL | $1,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Off the Street Club | Chicago, IL | $1,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Stella Marris | Timonium, MD | $1,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| B&o Railroad Museum | Baltimore, MD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Columbia University Teachers College | New York, NY | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cristo Rey | Baltimore, MD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Love and Cornbread | Baltimore, MD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Museum of Science Boston | Boston, MA | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| NAMI | Baltimore, MD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Hope Day Shelterfumc | Edgewood, MD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northfield Mount Hermon | Gill, MA | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| NPR-Wypr | Baltimore, MD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Roland Park Country School | Baltimore, MD | $1,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Richmond | Richmond, VA | $500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Richmond (university of Richmond Advancement Office) | University of Richmond, VA | $500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fallston United Methodist Church | Fallston, MD | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
36 of 57 (63%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 79%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Mcdonogh School
TO FURTHER EXEMPT PURPOSE - University of Richmond
TO FURTHER EXMEPT PURPOSE
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 94 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 27 | $116,000 | $1,000 |
| 2022 | 29 | $177,500 | $1,500 |
| 2023 | 39 | $163,750 | $1,000 |
| 2024 | 37 | $136,100 | $1,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 63% of this one's giving went to organizations in Maryland. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Maryland.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Silberstein Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 624, Brooklandville, MD, 21022. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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