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THE SLOMO AND CINDY SILVIAN FOUNDATION, INC
GENEROSITY IN PERPETUITY
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 2021 grant program, the Foundation approved grants totaling $2,350,000 to 120 different organizations.
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, and Jewish Philanthropic Endeavors. 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. Please note that 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.
If your organization meets the above criteria and wishes to be considered for funding during our 2022 grant program, and if it did not receive a grant from us during our 2021 grant program, your organization must be one of the first sixty organizations to submit a short Preliminary Inquiry to us through our online grants management system. Each such organization may submit only one Preliminary Inquiry.
IMPORTANT NOTICE - We are now closed for submission of Preliminary Inquiries for our 2022 grant program because we have received our limit of sixty Preliminary Inquiries. Please visit us again in early January, 2023, when information about our 2023 grant program will be made available on this website. Thank you for your interest in The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation, Inc.
Submitting a Preliminary Inquiry through our online grants system is the sole method to let us know that you wish to have us consider your organization for a grant during our 2022 grant program unless your organization was approved for a grant from us during 2021. Organizations that we approved for a grant during 2021 and that are not ineligible for a grant in 2022 because of their receipt of a grant from us in each of the last five consecutive years will be automatically considered by our board of directors candidates for our 2022 grant program. Such automatically considered organizations should not submit a Preliminary Inquiry. We will be in touch with those automatically considered organizations between April 13, 2022, and April 22, 2022. If we approved your organization for a grant during 2021, and if that grant was not the fifth grant you received from us during the last five years, and you have not yet heard from us by April 25, 2022, with respect to our 2022 grant program, please send us a short email to advise of that fact.
First-Time Organizations
IMPORTANT NOTICE - We are now closed for submission of Preliminary Inquiries for our 2022 grant program because we have received our limit of sixty Preliminary Inquiries. Please visit us again in early January, 2023, when information about our 2023 grant program will be made available on this website. Thank you for your interest in The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation, Inc.
If you wish to submit a Preliminary Inquiry and if your organization is not yet registered in our online grant system, click on the button on the top of this page labeled “Online Grant System,” then click on the button labeled, “Create New Account” that will appear on the grant system’s login page. Once you create your organization’s account, there will be several additional questions, the answers to which will comprise your Preliminary Inquiry. The first day you are permitted to work on and submit your Preliminary Inquiry is January 18, 2022, at 10:00 AM EST and the deadline to submit your Preliminary Inquiry is 5:00 PM EST on March 31, 2022, unless sixty Preliminary Inquiries are submitted before that date, in which case submission of Preliminary Inquiries closes when the sixtieth Preliminary Inquiry is submitted.
If you intend to submit a Preliminary Inquiry, and if your organization has not filed a 990 or 990EZ tax return with the US Internal Revenue Service within the last two years, you will be required to upload a recent financial statement (Balance Sheet and Income and Expense Statement) to your Preliminary Inquiry before submitting the Preliminary Inquiry. Thus, those organizations that do not file IRS form 990 or 990EZ will need to have a recent financial statement on hand and available for uploading when the 2022 grant process opens on January 18.
After submitting your Preliminary Inquiry, you will receive an automatically generated email confirming our receipt of the Preliminary Inquiry and advising when you will hear from us again.
Once you create your organization’s account in our online grant system, please do not create a different account for the same organization or for a different organization using the same tax ID number.
Once you create your organization’s account in our online grant system, please do not create a different account for the same organization or for a different organization using the same tax ID number.
Returning Organizations That Were Not Approved for a Grant During 2021
IMPORTANT NOTICE - We are now closed for submission of Preliminary Inquiries for our 2022 grant program because we have received our limit of sixty Preliminary Inquiries. Please visit us again in early January, 2023, when information about our 2023 grant program will be made available on this website. Thank you for your interest in The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation, Inc.
If you wish to submit a Preliminary Inquiry, and if your organization is already registered in our online grant system, log into the grant system by clicking the Online Grant System button on the top of this page. You will be brought to the system’s Log On page. Insert the email address and password that your organization used when it created its account with us, and then click the Log On button. You will be brought to the grant system’s Home (Applicant Dashboard) page. On the top of that page, click the “Apply” button, then click the “Preliminary Inquiry - 2022” link on the “Apply” page and answer the questions that will appear. Your answers to those questions will comprise your Preliminary Inquiry. The first day you are permitted to work on and submit your Preliminary Inquiry is January 18, 2022, at 10:00 AM EST. The deadline to submit the Preliminary Inquiry is 5:00 PM EST on March 31, 2022, unless sixty Preliminary Inquiries are submitted before that date, in which case submission of Preliminary Inquiries closes when the sixtieth Preliminary Inquiry is submitted.
If you intend to submit a Preliminary Inquiry, and if your organization has not filed a 990 or 990EZ tax return with the US Internal Revenue Service within the last two years, you will be required to upload a recent financial statement (Balance Sheet and Income and Expense Statement) to your Preliminary Inquiry before submitting the Preliminary Inquiry. Thus, those organizations that do not file IRS form 990 or 990EZ will need to have a recent financial statement on hand and available for uploading when the 2022 grant process opens on January 18.
When you submit your Preliminary Inquiry, you will receive an automatically generated email confirming our receipt of your Preliminary Inquiry and advising when you will hear from us again.
Additional Information about Our Grant Process
Your submission of a Preliminary Inquiry is not a grant application because an application for a Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation, Inc., grant is by invitation only. Our board considers Preliminary Inquiries to help it decide which organizations it will invite to apply for a grant. If our board decides to invite your organization to apply for a grant, the invitation will not be a commitment by the Foundation to make a grant. Grants are made solely at the discretion of the Foundation’s board of directors after a review of a complete application package.
We do not accept funding requests by letter, email, fax, or telephone. Funding requests submitted in that fashion will not be considered and may not receive a response.
Nothing contained on our website and no oral communications from any Foundation staff member, officer, or director should be considered an invitation to apply for a grant or a commitment by the Foundation to make a grant. The Foundation issues invitations to apply for grants and grant notifications only by letter or email signed by the President of the Foundation.
Thank you for your interest in The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation, Inc.
We do not accept funding requests by letter, email, fax, or telephone. Funding requests submitted in that fashion will not be considered and may not receive a response.
Nothing contained on our website and no oral communications from any Foundation staff member, officer, or director should be considered an invitation to apply for a grant or a commitment by the Foundation to make a grant. The Foundation issues invitations to apply for grants and grant notifications only by letter or email signed by the President of the Foundation.
Thank you for your interest in The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation, Inc.