· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION | $5,000 |
| TREE PEOPLE | $5,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $2,000 |
| COLLINS KATZ FAMILY YMCA | $2,000 |
| PBS SO CAL | $2,000 |
| LAFD FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY | $2,000 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO | $2,000 |
| OPICA | $2,000 |
| THE COUNCIL OF THE LIBRARY FOUNDATI | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CPCEREBRAL PALSY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2023 · $251k · revenue +170%
- WWWESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +131%
- TSTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE3× · 2019–2022 · $112k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- UCUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF LAone grant, 2021 · $232k
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +131%- B9BRENTWOOD 90049one grant, 2020 · $100k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
163 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. 163 of the 284 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC ↗
- 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 THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SWEETWATER SPECTRUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACHIEVABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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