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John M Shapiro Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$75k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
35
Grants FY2025
36
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,100
Organizations funded a year
30 to 36
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$757k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations John M Shapiro Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthInternationalHousing & ShelterOther
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 arriving35$75k6%
FY202436$80k8%
FY202331$80k19%
FY202230$71k7%
FY202133$66kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$158kHuman Services$53kEducation$48kInternational$44kFood & Nutrition$22kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kCrime & Legal$8kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
NY
MA
PA
CA
MD
KS
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($117k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John M Shapiro Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCurepsp Inc: $44,900 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSeva Foundation: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWest Central Services Inc: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetA Wider Circle Inc: $11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLISTEN Lebanon in Service to Each Neighbor: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFood & Friends Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCapper Foundation: $9,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUpper Valley Haven: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of New Hampshire Inc: $8,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Service and Guidance Center of Topeka Inc: $7,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc: $7,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFlorence Crittenton Services of Topeka Inc: $6,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Information Service (Wise) of the Upper Valley Inc: $6,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Needs Support Center of the Upper Valley: $5,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPositive Connections Inc: $5,300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGrafton County Senior Citizens Council Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Place Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGood Beginnings Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetFriends of the World Food Program Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKansas Childrens Service League: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHeadrest Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVisions for Creative Housing Solutions: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpark Community Center Inc: $1,600 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHowe Library Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Oeis Foundation Inc: $500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMontgomery County Road Runners Club Inc: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNutritionfactsorg Inc: $500 over 5y, 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 31.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH28.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Couch Family Foundation · Emily Landecker Foundation Inc · Granite United Way · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · Claremont Savings Bank Foundation · Mascoma Bank Foundation · Lane & Elizabeth C Dwinell Fdn · Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic · Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital · Schon Family Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation

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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Find your warmest path to John M Shapiro Charitable Trust 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.

About John M Shapiro Charitable Trust

How much does John M Shapiro Charitable Trust give?
John M Shapiro Charitable Trust reported 35 grants totaling $75,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 36 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does John M Shapiro Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (42%), Human Services (14%), Education (13%).
Who are John M Shapiro Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Curepsp Inc ($45k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($23k), Seva Foundation ($15k).
Does John M Shapiro Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John M Shapiro Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as John M Shapiro Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, The Couch Family Foundation, Emily Landecker Foundation Inc.
Where is John M Shapiro Charitable Trust based?
John M Shapiro Charitable Trust is based in NH.

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 46 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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