· Private foundation
The Shapira Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHEEL TO WALK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PLAY IT FORWARD | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC DBA PROJECT MERCY | $7,000 |
| UN WATCH - USA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY TRANSITION SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MT HOOD KIWANIS CAMP | $5,000 |
| MERRY HEART CHILDREN'S CAMP | $5,000 |
| CAMP ROSENBAUM FUND | $5,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OREGON INC | $4,000 |
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, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of The 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.
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 +16% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- WTWHEEL TO WALK FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $43k · revenue +42%
- CDCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +334%
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OREGON7× · 2019–2025 · $26k · revenue +59%
Funded once
CATLIN GABEL SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +74%- ABAUSTRALIA BUSHFIRE RELIEFWIRES WILDLIFE RESCUEone grant, 2020 · $10k
RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLANDone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -17%
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.
Operation Nightwatch provides nighttime hospitality for Portland's unhoused population. For a few evenings a week, staff and volunteers at thehospitality center provide a safe place, food, socks, blankets, medical care, and welcome our…
Impact nw prevents homelessness by supporting people as they navigate their journey to stability and strength. founded in portland in 1966, impact nw now serves 26,944 people a year in the greater portland, oregon metro area, including…
To provide families and individuals experiencing homelessness temporary emergency shelter with intensive case management support while they work toward the goal of safe, stable and affordable housing.
Our mission is to provide trauma-informed harm reduction services to people who are unhoused in the Portland Metro area. Our focus is on mental health services, nursing care, extreme weather supplies, food and safer use supplies for people…
Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…
We offer our homeless neighbors accessible whole-person care to improve and support health, and to bridge a gap in trust between people and systems.
The name "Carry It Forward" is meant to highlight the mutual benefits ofdirect service to our unhoused neighbors. Our work is designed to reducesuffering by meeting basic human needs while developing a sustainable modelfor incorporating…
To provide youth in crisis a place of physical and emotional safety while assisting them to build positive relationships and develop their individual potentials.
Restoration House provides save, supervised housing for men with significant behavioral health needs, creating a stable environment where structure, accountability, and wraparound services support personal growth and long-term recovery.…
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska supports families with seriously ill children by providing a caring home-away-from-home at the SEattle Ronald McDonald House and operating a house and a van service in…
To connect individuals to the housing and community resources they seek.
A family for every child (affec) is dedicated to finding permanent and loving adoptive families for waiting foster children. to accomplish our mission, we focus on finding loving and permanent families for children who the foster care…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Path Home and the most unlike its peers is Wheel to Walk 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 26 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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 44 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 CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WHEEL TO WALK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUDD-NICK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLAY IT FORWARD ↗
- Who funds MT HOOD KIWANIS CAMP ↗
- Who funds JERICHO ROAD INC ↗
- Who funds MERRY HEART CHILDREN'S CAMP ↗
- Who funds KINDRED PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE DOUGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASCADE AIDS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Portland Backpack ↗
- Who funds Oregon Community Warehouse Inc ↗
- Who funds ALS Northwest ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE OF PORTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP ROSENBAUM FUND ↗
- Who funds Full Circle Programs ↗
- Who funds HUNGER PREVENTION COALITION OF CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds PATH HOME ↗
- Who funds JUST COMPASSION OF EAST WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EAST WASHINGTON COUNTY SHELTER PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERS OF THE ROAD INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Kidney Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM TEMPLE HOUSE ↗
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 Oregon Community Foundation · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Jackson Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · Clark Foundation · The Swigert Foundation · The Holzman Foundation · Hoover Family 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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Kindred Partners — 42% of income from government
- Play It Forward — 30% of income from government
- Oregon Community Warehouse Inc — 24% of income from government
- Mt Hood Kiwanis Camp — 18% of income from government
- Cascade Aids Project — 13% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
- Just Compassion of East Washington County — 4% of income from government
- The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- William Temple House — 0% of income from government
- Catlin Gabel School — 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.