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The Hy and Myra Shapiro Family Foundation - C/O Lawrence M Shapiro

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.

$18k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,600
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$191k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Hy and Myra Shapiro Family Foundation - C/O Lawrence M Shapiro funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
InternationalPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$18k20%
FY20244$20k25%
FY20232$12k100%
FY20224$12k100%
FY20215$12k60%
FY20205$12kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$22kPhilanthropy$21kHuman Services$14kFood & Nutrition$12kHealth$7kInternational$5kYouth Development$4kEnvironment$2k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MA
OR
NJ
CA
MD
DE
DC
LA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of The Hy and Myra Shapiro Family Foundation - C/O Lawrence M Shapiro by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Children's Law Center Inc$21,60040%
Friends of Hagal Sheli Inc$21,40032%
Feeding America$6,60010%
Children's Inn at Nih Inc$6,60010%
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis$3,75030%
Second Harvest Heartland$3,15020%
SMYAL Inc$2,6001n/a
American Friends of Leket Israel Inc$1,80010%
Seeds of Peace Inc$1,80010%
Hias Inc$1,80010%
National Network of Abortion Funds Inc$1,80010%
Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay$1,80020%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$1,50010%
Herzl Camp Association Inc$90010%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Hy and Myra Shapiro Family Foundation - C/O Lawrence M Shapiro supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Law Center Inc: $21,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Hagal Sheli Inc: $21,400 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFeeding America: $6,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Inn at Nih Inc: $6,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis: $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Heartland: $3,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Leket Israel Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeeds of Peace Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Network of Abortion Funds Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family and Community Services East Bay: $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHerzl Camp Association Inc: $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA12.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Hy and Myra Shapiro Family Foundation - C/O Lawrence M Shapiro

How much does The Hy and Myra Shapiro Family Foundation - C/O Lawrence M Shapiro give?
The Hy and Myra Shapiro Family Foundation - C/O Lawrence M Shapiro reported 5 grants totaling $18,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Hy and Myra Shapiro Family Foundation - C/O Lawrence M Shapiro fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (25%), Philanthropy (25%), Human Services (16%).
Who are The Hy and Myra Shapiro Family Foundation - C/O Lawrence M Shapiro's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Children's Law Center Inc ($22k), Friends of Hagal Sheli Inc ($21k), Feeding America ($7k).
Does The Hy and Myra Shapiro Family Foundation - C/O Lawrence M Shapiro fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Hy and Myra Shapiro Family Foundation - C/O Lawrence M Shapiro 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 The Hy and Myra Shapiro Family Foundation - C/O Lawrence M Shapiro?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, American Endowment Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The Hy and Myra Shapiro Family Foundation - C/O Lawrence M Shapiro based?
The Hy and Myra Shapiro Family Foundation - C/O Lawrence M Shapiro is based in MN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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