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The Shapira Foundation at a glance

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The Shapira Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$66k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$108kHousing & Shelter$86kEducation$63kPhilanthropy$45kRecreation & Sports$33kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kMembership Benefit$25kHuman Services$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLAY IT FORWARD$10,000
WHEEL TO WALK FOUNDATION$10,000
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC DBA PROJECT MERCY$7,000
MERRY HEART CHILDREN'S CAMP$5,000
CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION$5,000
UN WATCH - USA$5,000
MT HOOD KIWANIS CAMP$5,000
CAMP ROSENBAUM FUND$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
COMMUNITY TRANSITION SCHOOL$5,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OREGON INC$4,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GENERATE HOPE: $3k → 11%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $5k → 12%JUST COMPASSION OF EAST WASHINGTON COUNTY: $3k → 8%OREGON COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of The Shapira Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Shapira Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$318k · 18 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
24

Total granted

$318k
$136k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+4%

Still filing today

72%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WT
    WHEEL TO WALK FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $43k · revenue +42%
  • CD
    COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +334%
  • MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OREGON
    7× · 2019–2025 · $26k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • CATLIN GABEL SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +74%
  • AB
    AUSTRALIA BUSHFIRE RELIEFWIRES WILDLIFE RESCUE
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -17%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Operation Nightwatch - Portland

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…

Health
2
Impact Nw

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…

Human Services
3
Family Promise of Tualatin Valley

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.

Human Services
4
The Everly Project

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…

Health
5
Welcome Home Coalition

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…

Community Improvement
6
Portland Street Medicine

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.

Health
7
Carry It Forward

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…

Human Services
8
Youth Empowerment Shelter

To provide youth in crisis a place of physical and emotional safety while assisting them to build positive relationships and develop their individual potentials.

Youth Development
9
Restoration House Inc

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.…

Health
10
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska

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…

Health
11
Thrive Central Oregon

To connect individuals to the housing and community resources they seek.

Human Services
12
A Family for Every Child

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Path Home; 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.
05the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/31
Grantees still filing
19/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MT HOOD KIWANIS CAMP: $20,000 · OtherMT HOOD KIWANIS CAMPPROJECT MERCY -COMMUNITY DEV PROJ I: $15,300 · OtherPROJECT MERCY -COMMUNITY DEV PROJ ICALIFORNIA HWY PATROL 9-11 FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA HWY PATROL 9-11 FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAUSTRALIA BUSHFIRE RELIEFWIRES WILDLIFE RESCUE: $10,000 · OtherAUSTRALIA BUSHFIRE RELIEFWIRES WILDLIFE…THE DOUGY CENTER INC: $7,500 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OREGON IN: $6,000 · OtherKINDRED PARTNERS: $8,500 · Other+20 more: $74,000 · Other+20 moreWHEEL TO WALK FOUNDATION: $42,500 · HealthWHEEL TO WALK FOUNDATIO…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OREGON: $26,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION …MERRY HEART CHILDREN'S CAMP: $12,000 · HealthMERRY HEART CHILDREN'S …CASCADE AIDS PROJECT: $7,500 · HealthCASCADE AIDS PROJECTALS Northwest: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC: $37,800 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY DEVE…JERICHO ROAD INC: $14,500 · Housing & ShelterJERICHO ROAD I…PATH HOME: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY SHELTER PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL INC: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterCATLIN GABEL SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationCATLIN GABEL S…COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL: $7,500 · EducationCOMMUNITY TRAN…MUDD-NICK FOUNDATION: $40,000 · PhilanthropyMUDD-NICK F…ALLIANCE FOR HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 · PhilanthropyALLIANCE FO…CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Membership BenefitPLAY IT FORWARD: $22,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$161,300Health$94,000Housing & Shelter$57,800Education$57,500Philanthropy$45,000Membership Benefit$25,000Arts & Culture$22,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCATLIN GABEL SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWHEEL TO WALK FOUNDATION: $42,500 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetMUDD-NICK FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC: $37,800 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OREGON: $26,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPLAY IT FORWARD: $22,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMT HOOD KIWANIS CAMP: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJERICHO ROAD INC: $14,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetMERRY HEART CHILDREN'S CAMP: $12,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetKINDRED PARTNERS: $8,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCASCADE AIDS PROJECT: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DOUGY CENTER INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALS Northwest: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFull Circle Programs: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPortland Backpack: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOUR HOUSE OF PORTLAND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOregon Community Warehouse Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPATH HOME: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY SHELTER PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSISTERS OF THE ROAD INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGENERATEHOPE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwest Kidney Kids Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNATIONAL PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

The Oregon Community …Juan Young TrustOCF Joseph E Weston P…The Autzen FoundationHillman Family Founda…Marie Lamfrom Charita…The Jackson FoundationThe Reser Family Foun…Clark FoundationThe Swigert FoundationThe Holzman FoundationHoover Family Foundat…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR40.2× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Shapira Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shapira Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 44 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home