· Private foundation
The Kathy L Shapiro Foundation Inc Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of THE KATHY L SHAPIRO FOUNDATION INC 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 $10k11 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SOUL CENTER | $30,000 |
| BETH EL CONGREGATION | $5,000 |
| CARROLL COUNTY VETERANS INDEPENDENCE PROJECT | $3,000 |
| BALTIMORE CLAYWORKS | $2,500 |
| ACCELERATE CHANGE | $2,500 |
| PARK SCHOOL FUND | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| GILMAN ANNUAL FUND | $1,500 |
| SHALOM TIKVAH | $1,500 |
| IMPACT ISRAEL | $1,500 |
| THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE | $1,000 |
| FIRST TEE GREATER BALTIMORE | $500 |
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, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% 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.
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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 15 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
Bucknell University3× · 2018–2021 · $100k · revenue +34%- STShalom Tikvah Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +120%
- CFCOLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $15k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- CTCARON TREATMENT CENTERone grant, 2020 · $15k
- DIDR IRA T FINE DISCOVERY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $15k
- JHJOHNS HOPKINSone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens
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Bridges baltimore, inc. is committed to the long-term success of baltimore city youth and to providing life changing opportunities for independent school students.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women and the most unlike its peers is B'more Clubhouse Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 59 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.
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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: France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Blanket Fort Foundation · Herbert Bearman Foundation · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Kenneth L Greif Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc
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 Kathy L Shapiro Foundation Inc 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.
- Pikesville Volunteer Fire Co Inc — 32% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Baltimore Clayworks Inc — 5% of income from government
- Art With a Heart Inc — 4% of income from government
- Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lifebridge Health Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sinai Hospital of Baltimore 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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