California · Private foundation
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.
- $136k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $51,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 100
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $19M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 32 | $83k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $179k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $809k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 68 | $359k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $517k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 94 | $932k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 88 | $411k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 100 | $327k | 54% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way Inc | $511,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Cerebral Palsy Foundation Inc | $251,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Western Watersheds Projects Inc | $130,000 | 8 | 2% |
| The Scripps Research Institute | $112,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Chabad of Beverlywood | $110,000 | 4 | n/a |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $101,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Oregon Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Asia Society | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Treepeople Inc | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation | $72,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 166 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 109 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
Compare Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $135,660 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 100 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (41%), Education (36%), Health (12%).
- Who are Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way Inc ($511k), Cerebral Palsy Foundation Inc ($251k), Western Watersheds Projects Inc ($130k).
- Does Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, The Ahmanson Foundation.
- Where is Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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