The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation Grant

Overview

The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation, Inc., was established by the late Cindy Silvian. Mr. and Mrs. Silvian were distinguished citizens of Long Beach, New York. They were well known and respected for their friendship, their business leadership, their civic-mindedness, and their philanthropy.

Mr. Silvian passed away in May, 2001. Mrs. Silvian passed away in November, 2007. Mrs. Silvian funded the Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation, Inc., with a generous bequest in her will. The Foundation began making grants in 2008. During its 2024 grant program, the Foundation approved grants totaling $2,432,900 to more than 110 different organizations. The Foundation has approved grants totaling more than $30,565,000 to more than 400 different organizations since 2008.

The Foundation makes grants to organizations that operate in one or more of the following subject areas:

* Education
* Children’s Welfare
* Medical Care
* Medical Research
* Jewish Philanthropic Endeavors

An application for a Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation Grant is by invitation only. Our board considers Preliminary Inquiries to help it decide which organizations it will invite to apply for a grant.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

* Each grant recipient must be a tax-exempt entity under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)3 and must also be an organization described in Internal Revenue Code Sections 509 (a)1 or 509 (a)2. 
* For eligible organizations (as above) that were not approved for a grant during our 2024 grant program, to be considered for funding during our 2025 grant program, your organization must be one of the first fifty organizations to submit a short Preliminary Inquiry to us. Each such organization may submit only one Preliminary Inquiry. 
* Organizations we approved for a grant during 2024, and that are not ineligible for a grant in 2025 under the Eligibility Policy for Returning Grantees below, will be automatically considered by our board of directors as candidates for our 2025 grant program. Such automatically considered organizations should not submit a Preliminary Inquiry. We will be in touch with those automatically considered organizations between April 23, 2025, and May 2, 2025.
* The ELIGIBILITY POLICY FOR RETURNING GRANTEES is as follows:
* For returning grantees that have received five consecutive grants, a mandatory one-year off is required before becoming eligible to seek funding again. 
* For returning grantees that have received eight cumulative grants from their first grant, a mandatory three-years off is required before becoming eligible to seek funding again.
* For returning grantees that have received eleven cumulative grants from their first grant, a mandatory five-years off is required before becoming eligible to seek funding again. 
* Once the mandatory five-years off is achieved, the returning grantee will then be treated as a new organization for purposes of calculating the number of prior grants and mandatory time-off. At that point, regardless of its prior grant history, the organization will be again eligible to be considered for up to five grants in consecutive years or eight cumulative grants before a mandatory time-off will apply.

Ineligibility

* We do not make grants to foreign organizations through United States fiscal intermediaries or fiscal sponsors. Foreign organizations that wish to be considered for a grant must be registered with the US Internal Revenue Service.