The Robert B. Silvers Foundation is a charitable trust established by a bequest of the late Robert B. Silvers, a founding editor of The New York Review of Books, with the aim of supporting writers working in the fields of long-form literary and arts criticism, the intellectual essay, political analysis, and social reportage. Such support takes the form of the annual Silvers Grants for Work in Progress, given since 2019, and the Silvers-Dudley Prizes, bestowed annually beginning in 2022.