· Private foundation
David S Shapira Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $176k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $893k
- $250k+2 grants · $767k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILLEL INTERNATIONAL | $500,000 |
| HILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH | $267,220 |
| PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES | $138,145 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| HILLEL INTERNATIONAL | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL | $90,500 |
| HILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH | $90,000 |
| MOISHE HOUSE | $79,451 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH | $70,000 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| ONETABLE | $50,000 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| MOISHE HOUSE | $35,662 |
| ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNING BOARDS OF UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES | $35,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $192k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of David S Shapira Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 48% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 44% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
83 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 66 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k 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
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE8× · 2017–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +42%- PIPARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC6× · 2018–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +20% · 32% of their budget
- HAHILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +21%
Funded once
- APAREIVIM PHILANTHROPIC GROUP INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $154k · revenue +60%
FRACTURED ATLAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +57%- FOFRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +56%
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.
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
The mission of penn hillel is to identify and prioritize the important issues and needs of our local and global community, then organize and mobilize human and financial resources to successfully impact them. penn hillel focuses on jewish…
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hillel Jewish University Center and the most unlike its peers is Foundation of the Neo-Renaissance Dba Jouyssance. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
137 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. 137 of the 201 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA'S STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ONETABLE INC ↗
- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds 412 FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FOOD SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AREIVIM PHILANTHROPIC GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds KAVOD ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MOSAIC UNITED ↗
- Who funds SQUIRREL HILL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHADY SIDE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVA ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds JUDAISM AND DEMOCRACY ACTION ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SAY YES TO EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNING BOARDS OF UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH JEWISH PUBLICATION & EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · The Fine Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Giant Eagle Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Upmc Group · The Grable Foundation · Morris Charles M Tr Ua-Char
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 David S Shapira 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.
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Jewels School Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Keshet Inc — 0% 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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