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Joan & James Shapiro Foundation Inc at a glance

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Joan & James 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.

$151k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Science & Tech$142kEducation$123kCrime & Legal$117kEnvironment$92kArts & Culture$86kReligion$58kCivil Rights$56kHealth$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO OPERA THEATER$50,000
SCIENCE RESERCH 20$25,000
CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA$20,000
CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION$7,500
GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST$7,500
CHELSEA FUND$5,000
CHICAGO WEST COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER$3,000
THE MARSHALL PROJECT$2,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS$2,500
COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS$2,500
WYOMING CIVIC ENGAGEMENT NETWORK$2,500
BROWN UNIVERSITY$2,500
WFMT 987$2,400
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$2,000
CHICAGO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$2,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS: $3k → 12%SCIENCE RESERCH 20: $25k → 9%ENVIRONMENT FOR DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES: $3k → 5%WYOMING CIVIC ENGAGEMENT NETWORK: $3k → 10%WELLSPRING HEALTH ACCESS: $5k → 17%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE: $10k → 19%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS: $3k → 12%JACKSON HOLE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $3k → 5%CHELSEA FUND: $5k → 17%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS: $3k → 12%CHICAGO OPERA THEATER: $50k → 14%JACKSON HOLE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $3k → 5%CHELSEA'S FUND: $3k → 17%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS: $5k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS: $5k → 14%COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS: $5k → 17%COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS: $5k → 17%COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS: $5k → 17%COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS: $3k → 17%COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS: $3k → 17%THE MARSHALL PROJECT: $3k → 17%THE MARSHALL PROJECT: $3k → 17%CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $20k → 17%INNOVATION 80: $10k → 14%BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS: $20k → 14%BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $5k → 14%READING BETWEEN THE LINES: $25k → 14%READING BETWEEN THE LINES: $25k → 14%READING BETWEEN THE LINES: $25k → 14%READING BETWEEN THE LINES: $25k → 14%NAACP: $3k → 14%KAM ISAIAH ISRAEL: $33k → 14%KAM ISAIAH ISREAL: $33k → 14%EVOLUTION 20: $25k → 14%KAM ISAIAH ISREAL: $33k → 14%ACLU INC: $7k → 14%CHICAGO WEST COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER: $3k → 14%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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IL
NY
MA
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RI
CA
CO
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DE
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$665k · 43 repeat orgs$128k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
20

Total granted

$665k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
-4%

Still filing today

72%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCivil RightsHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CI
    CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA
    4× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +89%
  • CLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +65%
  • GV
    GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST
    5× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • KA
    K A M ISAIAH ISRAEL CONGREGATION
    one grant, 2023 · $33k
  • E2
    EVOLUTION 20
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -75%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
2
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

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3
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
8
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
9
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
10
Sociedad Interamericana De Prensa Inc

Between 2024 and 2025, the committee on freedom of the press and information, together with its subcommittees on impunity and chapultepecsalta, participated in approximately nine activities. these included a panel discussion entitled…

Education
11
Council of the Americas Inc

Council of the americas is a business organization whose members share a common commitment to economic and social development, open markets, the rule of law, and democracy throughout the americas. the council's membership consists of…

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12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Humanities Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Friends of Wigmore Hall Inc. 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

49 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. 49 of the 73 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)
47/49
Grantees still filing
30/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $66,666 · OtherIndividual grant recipientK A M ISAIAH ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $33,333 · OtherK A M ISAIAH ISRAEL CONGREGATIONBulletin of the Atomic Scientists: $32,000 · OtherBulletin of the Atomic ScientistsSCIENCE RESERCH 20: $25,000 · OtherSCIENCE RESERCH 20EVOLUTION 20: $25,000 · OtherEVOLUTION 20BROWN UNIVERSITY: $14,500 · Other+37 more: $128,831 · Other+37 moreCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $80,000 · InternationalCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICATHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $74,640 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED…AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $6,000 · International+2 more: $2,000 · InternationalREADING BETWEEN THE LINES NFP: $100,000 · Crime & LegalREADING BETWEEN…EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $9,500 · Crime & LegalEVERYTOWN FOR G…+1 more: $2,500 · Crime & LegalCLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION: $47,500 · EnvironmentCLIMATE CONS…GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $32,500 · EnvironmentGALLATIN VAL…JACKSON HOLE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $6,000 · EnvironmentJACKSON HOLE…CERES INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentCHICAGO OPERA THEATER: $54,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO O…ILLINOIS HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureILLINOIS …Chicago West Community Music Center: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $20,500 · Civil RightsCHELSEA'S FUND: $10,000 · Civil RightsWYOMING CIVIC ENGAGEMENT NETWORK: $2,500 · Civil Rights+1 more: $1,000 · Civil RightsCornell University: $12,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $10,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · Education+3 more: $1,105 · Education
Other$325,330International$162,640Crime & Legal$112,000Environment$89,000Arts & Culture$65,500Civil Rights$34,000Education$26,605

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 budgetREADING BETWEEN THE LINES NFP: $100,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $74,640 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO OPERA THEATER: $54,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION: $47,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $32,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBulletin of the Atomic Scientists: $32,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $20,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHELSEA'S FUND: $10,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HOLE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChicago West Community Music Center: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCERES INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN HOWARD ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWYOMING CIVIC ENGAGEMENT NETWORK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION OF MARSHALL SCHOLARS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCONTEXTOS NFP: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMERON KRAVITT FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT GRANTS CHICAGO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $605 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF WIGMORE HALL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOURTH COAST ENSEMBLE: $300 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $25 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.

The Chicago Community…Polk Bros Foundation …John D and Catherine …Jewish Federation of …Morgan Stanley Global…Robert & Isabelle Bas…Baskin Family Foundat…Lohengrin Foundation …Fulk Family Foundatio…Lloyd a Fry FoundationThe Ayco Charitable F…National Philanthropi…
The Chicago Community TrustIL24.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Robert & Isabelle Bass Fdn Inc · Baskin Family Foundation · Lohengrin Foundation Inc · Fulk Family Foundation Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Joan & James Shapiro Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joan & James Shapiro Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Joan & James Shapiro Foundation Inc 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 73 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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