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David & Fela Shapell Family Foundation at a glance

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David & Fela Shapell Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$18MScience & Tech$8.4MReligion$4.5MEducation$3.0MInternational$2.2MCrime & Legal$132kHuman Services$123kPhilanthropy$107kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $650
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $188k
  • $250k+5 grants · $3.2M
$400,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$1,000,000
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE$667,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DARCHE NOAM - DAVID SHAPELL COLLEGE$610,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$518,000
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTERMUSEUM OF TOLERANCE$400,000
BETH JACOB CONGREGATION$87,500
JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL$50,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO$50,000
1939 CLUB INC$650
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO: $50k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO: $25k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO: $25k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO: $10k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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NJ
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MD
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$30M · 13 repeat orgs$310k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
26

Total granted

$30M
$310k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+45%

Still filing today

46%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureCrime & LegalHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    4× · 2020–2023 · $11M · revenue +57%
  • AC
    AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +135%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +211%

Funded once

  • TS
    The Shalem Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $132k · revenue +120%
  • IU
    ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $33k · revenue +21%
  • BI
    BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +19%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Sherit Isroel
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2
University of Judaism Foundation
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3
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
4
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
5
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
6
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
7
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
8
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
9
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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American Friends of Israel Emergency Aid Fund

To provide funding for medical and humanitarian projects throughout israel. the organization might make grants to other organizations providing such services, including, but not limited to, evp israel and israel emergency aid fund, israeli…

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
12
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is University of Southern California. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
17/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,549,800 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $5,108,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INCHADASSAH: $4,003,600 · OtherHADASSAHAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DARCHE NOAM - DAVID SHAPELL COLLEGE: $2,948,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DARCHE NOAM - …SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTERMUSEUM OF TOLERANCE: $1,200,000 · OtherSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTERMUSEUM OF T…SIMON WISENTHAL CENTERMUSEUM OF TOLERANCE: $800,000 · OtherSIMON WISENTHAL CENTERMUSEUM OF TO…BETH JACOB CONGREGATION: $436,630 · Other+19 more: $150,005 · OtherAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $3,336,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITT…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,098,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE I…+8 more: $72,900 · InternationalPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $50,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $23,200 · PhilanthropyThe Shalem Foundation: $132,000 · Crime & LegalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $33,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Arts & Culture$15,657,800Other$9,538,235International$4,506,900Philanthropy$1,073,200Crime & Legal$132,000Human Services$120,000Public Safety & Disaster$33,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,549,800 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $5,108,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $3,336,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,098,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Shalem Foundation: $132,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC: $120,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $33,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIAS INC: $9,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAT MELECH INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE 1939 CLUB INC: $2,630 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELEM YOUTH IN DISTRESS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Jewish Communal FundLee and Anne Samson C…Jewish Federation of …Combined Jewish Phila…Jewish Community Foun…California Community …National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY15.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Lee and Anne Samson Charitable Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization David & Fela Shapell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David & Fela Shapell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to David & Fela Shapell Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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