· Private foundation
The Kathy L Shapiro Foundation Inc Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ACCELERATE CHANGE | $2,500 |
| BALTIMORE CLAYWORKS | $2,500 |
| PARK SCHOOL FUND | $2,000 |
| GILMAN ANNUAL FUND | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| SHALOM TIKVAH | $1,500 |
| IMPACT ISRAEL | $1,500 |
| THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE | $1,000 |
| FIRST TEE GREATER BALTIMORE | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
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- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER BALTIMORE INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kathy L Shapiro Foundation Inc Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kathy L Shapiro Foundation Inc Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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