Massachusetts · 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.
- $3.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 91
- Grants FY2025
- 88
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $870,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 88
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $26M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 86 | $3.0M | 15% |
| FY2024 | 88 | $2.8M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 82 | $2.5M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $1.6M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $1.2M | 44% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $680k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $2.4M | 32% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $2.3M | 44% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | $6,235,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Museum of Fine Arts | $1,600,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Hebrew Senior Life Inc | $825,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Brimmer and May School | $366,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc | $350,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Huntington Theatre Co Inc | $310,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Joslin Diabetes Center Inc | $260,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Roca Inc | $240,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Jewish Vocational Service Inc | $205,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc | $195,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 116 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 112 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
Compare Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation with peer funders
About Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation
- How much does Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation give?
- Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation reported 91 grants totaling $3,146,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 88 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (44%), Education (18%), Arts & Culture (17%).
- Who are Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boston Medical Center Corporation ($6.2M), Museum of Fine Arts ($1.6M), Hebrew Senior Life Inc ($825k).
- Does Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation.
- Where is Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation based?
- Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation is based in MA.
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