· Private foundation
The Harry Shapiro Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of THE HARRY SHAPIRO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC | $25,000 |
| CITY OF NORTH PORT POLICE DEPARTMENT | $25,000 |
| BALTIMORE MARYLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| SARASOTA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE | $15,000 |
| LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| RAIN COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED | $10,000 |
| ELEISON FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MARANATHA MISSIONARY OUTREACH DBA CURE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 8% of The Harry Shapiro Charitable Foundation Inc’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.
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 +124% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
TEEN COURT OF SARASOTA INC5× · 2018–2023 · $90k · revenue +174%
LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +10%
FLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC3× · 2022–2024 · $70k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SVCone grant, 2019 · $20k
- MPMARYLAND PUBLIC TELEVISIONone grant, 2019 · $20k
- WFWEDU FL W COASTone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
Lead agency in the community for providers of homeless/prevention services in manatee/sarasota. responsible to plan strategies with community partners, assist with grants, educate the public, advocate with local leadership, administer the…
To improve public safety in the city of sarasota, florida, by providing resources and support to the sarasota city police department that are not readily available through other means.
The bay park conservancy (bpc) was formed to implement the master plan approved by the sarasota city commission to conserve 53 acres of public land for a signature park along sarasota bay. the bpc entered a long-term partnership with the…
Our mission is to encourage, honor and support the human-animal bond in the suncoast region of florida. our vision is to celebrate a community whose pets are safe and loved. suncoast humane society provides sheltering, prevention and…
To preserve and restore sarasota bay's ecosystem through education and citizen participation.
As the areas premier no-kill shelter, the humane society of sarasota county engages the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals.
The mission of the realtor association of sarasota and manatee is to advance members' professionalism through delivery of education and resources, and to advocate for real estate in the communities served.
The Florida Aquarium's mission focuses on our Shared Purpose of a commitment to save marine wildlife, with a Vision to be Florida's leading conservation-based Aquarium. It accomplishes this mission through hosting over 1 million visitors…
Aviva is a not-for-profit organization offering a full continuum of retirement rental options - from independent living to advanced care services that provide security, wellness, intellectual and spiritual fulfillment.
Habitat for Humanity South Sarasota County, Inc. works in partnership with Gods people in need to provide safe, decent, affordable housing.
Gulf coast partnership, inc. (the organization) mission is to prevent homelessness in charlotte county. the organization is a department of hud lead agency on homelessness in the state of florida. the organization is funded through a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Library Foundation for Sarasota County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eleison Foundation. 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 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 62 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
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 TEEN COURT OF SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds RESURRECTION HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Manatee Sheriffs Charity Inc ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Sarasota Inc ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAIN COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY 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: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Roberta Leventhal Sudakoff Foundation Inc · Sisterhood For Good Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Msc Foundation Inc · Jerome & Mildred Paddock Foundation · Harry Sudakoff Foundation Inc · The Henry E Becker and Pauline S Becker Charitable 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 The Harry Shapiro Charitable Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
- Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc — 12% of income from government
- Child Protection Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
- Teen Court of Sarasota 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.