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Mark and Lorraine Schapiro Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Mark and Lorraine Schapiro Family 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.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$50k
Largest
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

International$100kHealth$85kCivil Rights$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kHuman Services$25kPhilanthropy$25kFood & Nutrition$10kReligion$5k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF IDF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS ORGANIZATION: $25k → 17%BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT: $5k → 11%WEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE: $5k → 11%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.
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 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.

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Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
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American Friends of Israel Emergency Aid Fund

To provide funding for medical and humanitarian projects throughout israel. the organization might make grants to other organizations providing such services, including, but not limited to, evp israel and israel emergency aid fund, israeli…

Public Safety & Disaster
3
American Friends of Herzog Hospital Inc

The organization was formed to provide financial support to fund services, capital projects, clinical research, and purchase of new equipment for herzog hospital in jerusalem, which is the 3rd largest hospital in jerusalem and is israel's…

Health
4
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
5
Ziv Partners Inc

Raise funds in support of ziv medical center, which delivers trauma care, advanced mental health treatment, and inclusive healing to israels most diverse and at-risk communities.

Health
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American Friends of the Us - Israel Binational Science Foundation

The mission of the american friends of the u.s.-israel binational science foundation (afbsf) is to ensure the continuation of collaborative world-class scientific research by israeli and american scientists through the us israel binational…

Science & Tech
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Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc

To support cancer research in israel, for the benefit of israel and all mankind.

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Adi Israel Foundation Inc

Aleh Israel Foundation, Inc.(The Foundation)is a Foundation that provides support to rehabilitative centers caring for most severely disabled children in Israel.

International
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Friends of Barzilai

To promote health by raising funds to support the health services, research, and equipment needs of, and to educate the public about, barzilai medical center in ashkelon, israel.

Health
10
The Israel Advocacy Group

The mission of the israel advocacy group is to provide humanitarian relief, combat antisemitism and educate the public about israel and jewish people through grantmaking, educational activities, communication and collaboration with other…

International
11
American Friends of Peace of Mind Inc

To support the metiv israel psychotrauma center and its peace of mind project for israel defense forces veterans who have experienced trauma.

International
12
American Friends of Latet Humanitarian Aid Inc

None

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc; the most unlike its peers is Us Friends of Eran 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

12 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. 12 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
2/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mercy Health Foundation: $50,000 · HealthMercy Health FoundationUS FRIENDS OF ERAN INC: $25,000 · HealthUS FRIENDS OF ERAN INCRed Devils Inc: $5,000 · HealthRed Devils IncHOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT: $5,000 · HealthHOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORTPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS…MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyMERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION IN…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $50,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION L…American Friends of IDF Widows and Orphans Organization Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Fri…WEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesWEEKEND BACK…BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC: $5,000 · Human ServicesBALTIMORE HU…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ELEM: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN F…THE SOUL CENTER: $5,000 · OtherTHE SOUL C…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $25,000 · InternationalZAKA NORTH INC: $25,000 · Religion
Health$85,000Philanthropy$75,000Civil Rights$50,000Human Services$35,000Other$30,000International$25,000Religion$25,000

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 budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Health Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of IDF Widows and Orphans Organization Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUS FRIENDS OF ERAN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetMERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetZAKA NORTH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRed Devils Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHOPEWELL CANCER SUPPORT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Associated Jewish Cha…Baltimore Community F…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Associated Jewish Charities of BaltimoreMD17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mark and Lorraine Schapiro Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mark and Lorraine Schapiro Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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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    How do I get to Mark and Lorraine Schapiro Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Mark and Lorraine Schapiro Family 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 14 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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