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Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $51,500 |
| GUARDIANS OF LOS ANGELES JEWISH HOM | $25,000 |
| DRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| TREE PEOPLE | $5,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION | $5,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| OPICA | $2,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $2,000 |
| CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY | $2,000 |
| COLLINS KATZ FAMILY YMCA | $2,000 |
| PBS SO CAL | $2,000 |
| LAFD FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO | $2,000 |
| KCRW | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those 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 +35% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
136 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 108 since wound down; 4 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- CPCEREBRAL PALSY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2023 · $251k · revenue +182%
- WWWESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +114%
- TSTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE3× · 2019–2022 · $112k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- UCUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF LAone grant, 2021 · $232k
- B9BRENTWOOD 90049one grant, 2020 · $100k
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +131%
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
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,…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
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.
The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
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.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Osa Wildlife Sanctuary Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
163 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. 163 of the 284 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds CEREBRAL PALSY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TREEPEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cureshank ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SWEETWATER SPECTRUM INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ACHIEVABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
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: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Joseph Drown Foundation · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · The William C Bannerman Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
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 Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
- From the Top Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Our House Inc — 1% 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.
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