New York · Private foundation
Shapiro-Silverberg 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.
- $12M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 41
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $46M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Shapiro-Silverberg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k 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 | 17 | $12M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $5.6M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $14M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $5.3M | 6% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $20M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $4.9M | 16% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $6.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wesleyan University | $17,661,000 | 5 | 5% |
| The Rockefeller University | $10,413,950 | 7 | 0% |
| American Jewish Committee | $8,720,000 | 7 | 2% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $7,903,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Target Als Foundation Inc | $5,000,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Washington Institute for Near East Policy | $4,850,000 | 7 | 13% |
| Lawyers for Children Inc | $3,500,000 | 6 | 8% |
| The Hastings Center Inc | $930,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative -Us D/B/A Tony Blair Foundation | $700,000 | 5 | 4% |
| The Jewish Museum | $625,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 52 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shapiro-Silverberg 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Tides Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Shapiro-Silverberg Foundation
- How much does Shapiro-Silverberg Foundation give?
- Shapiro-Silverberg Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $12,123,950 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 41 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Shapiro-Silverberg Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Civil Rights (13%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are Shapiro-Silverberg Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Wesleyan University ($18M), The Rockefeller University ($10M), American Jewish Committee ($8.7M).
- Does Shapiro-Silverberg Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shapiro-Silverberg 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-Silverberg Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, The New York Community Trust.
- Where is Shapiro-Silverberg Foundation based?
- Shapiro-Silverberg Foundation is based in NY.
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