· Private foundation
Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k69 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k5 grants · $376k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL | $870,000 |
| MUSUEM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON | $382,000 |
| BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL | $101,000 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES | $100,000 |
| HUNTINGTON THEATER | $70,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $55,000 |
| THEATER OFFENSIVE INC | $50,000 |
| FULL SPECTRUM FEATURES | $39,250 |
| TEAM IMPACT | $35,000 |
| ROCA INC | $35,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $34,000 |
| BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC | $32,500 |
| BOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE | $30,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE MULTICULTURAL ARTS CENTER | $30,000 |
| ONE FAMILY INC | $30,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 73 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $6.2M · revenue +88%- HSHebrew Senior Life Inc3× · 2017–2022 · $825k · revenue +35%
- BABRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $366k · revenue +56%
Funded once
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1.6M · revenue +29%- BPBASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $50k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2024 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…
The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Impact Inc and the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
120 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 120 of the 154 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROCA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE THEATER OFFENSIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SMART FROM THE START INC ↗
- Who funds Julies Family Learning Program Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds City Ballet of Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUND ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds Found in Translation Inc ↗
- Who funds BUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW COMMONWEALTH RACIAL EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds ORIGINATION INCORPORATED ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hopewell Inc — 83% of income from government
- Vinfen Corporation — 83% of income from government
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Bay Cove Human Services Inc — 70% of income from government
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
- Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc — 43% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Neighborhood Villages Inc — 33% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores — 30% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Doc Wayne Inc — 15% of income from government
- English for New Bostonians Inc — 11% of income from government
- Urbano Project Inc — 11% of income from government
- Boston Community Pediatrics Inc — 10% of income from government
- Families First Parenting Program Inc — 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Boston Music Project Inc — 9% of income from government
- Boston Debate League Incorporated — 7% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Smart From the Start Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Economic Mobility Pathways Inc — 6% of income from government
- Musiconnects Inc — 5% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology — 5% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- The New England Center for Children Inc — 3% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- Central Square Theater Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Theater Offensive Inc — 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Children's Chorus Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bikes Not Bombs Inc — 2% of income from government
- Abilities Dance Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lower Cape Cod Community Develop- Ment Corporation — 1% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Beacon Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
- Women's Money Matters Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc — 1% of income from government
- One Family Inc — 1% of income from government
- City Ballet of Boston Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
- Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach Day Academy Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.