· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of IDA & JOSEPH SHAPIRO FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIV OF MA FOUNDATION ENVIRONMENTAL | $42,397 |
| WYPR - NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | $9,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC | $6,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| WETA | $5,000 |
| GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL | $4,500 |
| LAKE ERIE COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS ANNUAL FUND | $3,500 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS ALZHEIMER RESEARCH | $3,500 |
| CHESTNUT RIDGE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPA | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION INC | $2,500 |
| EVERYMAN THEATRE | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of your 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.
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 +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 0 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- GFGARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC4× · 2022–2025 · $18k · revenue +4%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $17k · revenue +25%
- LELAKE ERIE COLLEGE4× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- KSKABUKI SYNDROME FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To represent the interests of dermatologists and their patients. to influence and be a credible resource for public and private entities related to all policies and regulations that have the potential to affect the delivery of dermatologic…
To assure that dermatologists have access to the highest quality education, research and innovations in the field, and that patients and the public have access to the highest quality medical and surgical dermatologic care and to…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Advancing medicine through excellence in the science, education and professional practice of medical physics. the mission is carried out through driving scientific and clinical innovation in medical physics to improve human health,…
The organization provides peer reviewed scientific research and education in the field of biological dentistry.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kabuki Syndrome Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 23 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 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KABUKI SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHESTNUT RIDGE VOL FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds EVERYMAN THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
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: 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
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 Ida & Joseph Shapiro Foundation Inc 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.
- Everyman Theatre Inc — 15% of income from government
- Maryland Academy of Sciences — 9% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Industry 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
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.