· Private foundation
Ida & Joseph Shapiro Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $25k
- $250k+1 grant · $259k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IDA JOSEPH SHAPRIRO FOUNDATION INC | $258,557 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC | $6,224 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,600 |
| WYPR - NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | $4,000 |
| PORT DISCOVERY - THE BALTIMORE CHIL | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION INC | $2,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS ALZHEIMER RESEARCH | $1,500 |
| BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| BALITMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY | $1,000 |
| MARYLAND SCIENCE CENTER | $500 |
| EVERYMAN THEATRE | $500 |
| HADASSAH - BALTIMORE CHAPTER | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 33% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $259k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC6× · 2018–2024 · $29k · revenue +44%
- TATHE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC5× · 2018–2024 · $5k · revenue +4%
- BMBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- BSBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +50%
- HHomepl8orgone grant, 2018 · $500
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.
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
Port discovery children's museum's mission is to connect purposeful play and learning within its walls and beyond.
Bainbridge island museum of art (bima) inspires curiosity, wonder and understanding by connecting people with the contemporary art and craft of the puget sound region.
The mission of the baltimore chamber orchestra is to move, inspire, and provide educational opportunities to baltimore's community through world-class performances.
Opera baltimore creates a thrilling, meaningful shared experience between our audience and our artists. our streamlined format focuses on the primary element of opera: the unamplified human voice. featuring top flight professional opera…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Classic Theatre of Marylands mission is to produce bold re-imagined entertaining and accessible interpretations of classical works contemporary plays and musicals with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other major…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Visit baltimore is the tourism arm of baltimore, responsible for generating incremental economic benefits through attraction of convention and leisure visitors, and works to provide experience for all guests.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYMAN THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
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: Ida & Joseph Shapiro Foundation Inc · Herbert Bearman Foundation · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Johns Hopkins University · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ida & Joseph Shapiro Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ida & Joseph Shapiro Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Everyman Theatre Inc: 15% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
- Maryland Academy of Sciences: 9% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc: 7% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc: 7% of income from government
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc: 6% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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