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Ida & Joseph Shapiro Foundation Inc

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.

$117k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
10%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$42,397
Organizations funded a year
9 to 10
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$903k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Ida & Joseph Shapiro Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving22$117k59%
FY202410$60k10%
FY20239$50k0%
FY20229$45kn/a
82% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$115kHealth$80kEducation$31kArts & Culture$22kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kScience & Tech$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MA
OH
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($153k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ida & Joseph Shapiro Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGarrison Forest School Inc: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLake Erie College: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKabuki Syndrome Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Chestnut Ridge Vol Fire Company: $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Maryland Inc: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEveryman Theatre Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaltimore Museum of Art: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaltimore Museum of Industry Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaryland Academy of Sciences: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving IncMD16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Ida & Joseph Shapiro Foundation Inc · Herbert Bearman Foundation · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · Edward St John Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Johns Hopkins University · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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About Ida & Joseph Shapiro Foundation Inc

How much does Ida & Joseph Shapiro Foundation Inc give?
Ida & Joseph Shapiro Foundation Inc reported 22 grants totaling $117,418 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 10 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Ida & Joseph Shapiro Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (20%), Health (14%), Education (5%).
Who are Ida & Joseph Shapiro Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: American Cancer Society Inc ($20k), Garrison Forest School Inc ($18k), American Heart Association Inc ($17k).
Does Ida & Joseph Shapiro Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ida & Joseph Shapiro Foundation Inc 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 Ida & Joseph Shapiro Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc, France-Merrick Foundation Inc, Baltimore Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Ida & Joseph Shapiro Foundation Inc based?
Ida & Joseph Shapiro Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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