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Jacob S Shapiro Foundation at a glance

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Jacob S Shapiro 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.

$242k
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.3MEducation$343kArts & Culture$182kReligion$54kHealth$41kCrime & Legal$19kYouth Development$10kScience & Tech$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$65,000
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION$64,821
ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY$10,000
THREAD$10,000
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000
GILMAN SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND$7,500
SARASOTA CUBAN BALLET SCHOOL$7,000
CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU$7,000
THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND$5,000
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK$5,000
BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN$5,000
BRYN MAWR SCHOOL$5,000
MARYLAND PUBLIC TELEVISION$5,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$4,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $500 → 6%ART WITH A HEART: $1k → 19%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

NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
MO
MD
AL
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 43 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
7

Total granted

$1.2M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+60%

Still filing today

56%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • EP
    ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +37%
  • BS
    BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +68%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +60%
  • LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +78%
  • IH
    INNTERIM HOUSING CORPORATION
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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…

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3
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

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…

Health
4
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

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…

Education
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

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…

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7
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

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…

Health
8
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

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…

Health
9
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

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…

Health
10
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

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…

Health
11
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

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…

Health
12
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women; the most unlike its peers is Nature Sacred. 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

36 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. 36 of the 57 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
27/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $540,500 · OtherASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: $68,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORKTHE CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU INC: $62,000 · OtherTHE CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU INCMARYLAND PUBLIC TELEVISION: $44,500 · OtherGILMAN SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $42,500 · OtherBRYN MAWR SCHOOL: $40,000 · Other+22 more: $143,180 · Other+22 moreAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $591,470 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIONBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $184,180 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC+2 more: $8,000 · PhilanthropyENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY: $48,100 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN: $22,000 · EducationTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC: $18,000 · EducationTHE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND: $15,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · Education+6 more: $13,250 · EducationBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SARASOTA CUBAN BALLET SCHOOL INC: $21,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $17,150 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC: $7,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureSHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $9,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC: $8,000 · HealthTHE RYR-1 FOUNDATION: $8,000 · HealthSUSAN COHAN COLON CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · HealthEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $19,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $8,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAH BTZFAT INC: $2,000 · InternationalHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $500 · International
Other$940,680Philanthropy$783,650Education$127,850Arts & Culture$92,650Health$26,500Civil Rights$19,000International$10,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $591,470 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $184,180 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU INC: $62,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY: $48,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $45,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN: $22,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SARASOTA CUBAN BALLET SCHOOL INC: $21,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $19,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC: $18,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $17,150 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND: $15,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHREAD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RYR-1 FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC: $7,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATURE SACRED: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBALTIMORE CORPS INC: $4,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMaryland Institute: $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND BALTIMORE: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TORAH BTZFAT INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGOUCHER COLLEGE: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUSAN COHAN COLON CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMaryland Humanities Council Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINNTERIM HOUSING CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArt With a Heart Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $250 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.

  • Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU INC ↗
  • Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE BALTIMORE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds THE SARASOTA CUBAN BALLET SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THREAD INC ↗
  • Who funds SHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RYR-1 FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURE SACRED ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE CORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds Maryland Institute ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND BALTIMORE ↗
  • Who funds KENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America 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.

Baltimore Community F…T Rowe Price Program …Associated Jewish Cha…Annie E Casey Foundat…France-Merrick Founda…The Harry and Jeanett…Patricia and Mark Jos…The Bunting Family Fo…The Jacob and Hilda B…The United Way of Cen…Jewish Communal FundThe Wolman Family Fou…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD33.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Patricia and Mark Joseph Shelter Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Wolman Family Foundation Inc

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 Jacob S Shapiro Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jacob S Shapiro Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Baltimore Corps Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Thread Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Maryland Historical Society Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The American Visionary Art Museum Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
  • Art With a Heart Inc: 4% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Goucher College: 0% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Sheppard Pratt Health System Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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 57 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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