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The Shapiro Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
51
Grants FY2024
85
Organizations funded FY2023
9%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
63 to 85
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$12M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations The Shapiro Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
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
FY2024still arriving49$1.2M22%
FY202385$907k9%
FY202283$695k8%
FY202178$600k22%
FY202076$675k26%
FY201969$506k23%
FY201763$458kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.1MEducation$995kReligion$908kHousing & Shelter$548kArts & Culture$402kFood & Nutrition$244kHuman Services$220kInternational$220kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
KY
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County$450,60071%
Jewish Theological Seminary of America$360,0007n/a
Temple Emanuel$301,5927n/a
Groundworks Collaborative Inc$225,00072%
Center for Food Action in New Jersey$120,00070%
Church of the Holy Apostles$115,0007n/a
The Ctc Academy Inc$112,65030%
District Alliance for Safe Housing Inc$103,00051%
Wesleyan University$75,00060%
Theatre Adventure Inc$74,200610%
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All grantees of The Shapiro Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County$450,60071%
Jewish Theological Seminary of America$360,0007n/a
Temple Emanuel$301,5927n/a
Groundworks Collaborative Inc$225,00072%
Center for Food Action in New Jersey$120,00070%
Church of the Holy Apostles$115,0007n/a
The Ctc Academy Inc$112,65030%
District Alliance for Safe Housing Inc$103,00051%
Wesleyan University$75,00060%
Theatre Adventure Inc$74,200610%
Israel 20 Inc$74,000611%
Prep for Prep$70,00070%
Hopkins School Incorporated$64,00070%
Trust Women Foundation Inc$62,00040%
Servicenet Inc$60,50030%
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Inc$60,00030%
Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc$57,70060%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$44,00070%
Heightened Independence and Progress Inc$35,00031%
Spectrum for Living Development Inc$32,00070%
Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project$30,00030%
Camp Sunshine and Camp Snowflake$30,00026%
Smile Train Inc$28,00070%
New Horizons Service Dogs$28,00064%
Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development$25,00011%
Ort America Inc$20,10070%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc$20,00020%
Vantage Health System Inc$17,00070%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$17,00040%
Voteriders$15,00010%
League of Women Voters Education Fund$15,00010%
Rock the Vote$15,00010%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$12,50050%
Advocates for Trans Equality Education Fund$12,00030%
Masorti Foundation for Conservative Judaism in Israel$11,0004n/a
The Jewish Museum$10,50070%
Putney Community Cares Inc$10,00017%
The New England Youth Theater Inc$10,00011%
Art in the Neighborhood$9,0003n/a
World Central Kitchen Inc$8,00040%
Museum of Modern Art$6,60060%
Newark Public Radio Inc$6,00050%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$5,60040%
National Immigration Law Center$5,50060%
The Valley Hospital Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$5,00010%
God's Love We Deliver Inc$5,00060%
Partnership With Native Americans$5,00010%
Greater Bergen Community Action Inc$4,00040%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$4,00040%
The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc$4,00040%
The Petey Greene Program Inc$4,00050%
National Yiddish Book Center Inc$3,50020%
Friends of the High Line Inc$3,00060%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$2,50050%
Tenafly Fireman's Association Inc$2,49662%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$2,34760%
Tenafly Volunteer Ambulance Association Inc$1,84761%
AIDS Project of Southern Vermont$1,50030%
Bridgeport Public Schools$1,5001n/a
Cancer Care Inc$1,49760%
New York Public Radio$1,25020%
Women's Rights Information Center$1,20050%
Blood Cancer United Inc$1,20050%
National Arbor Day Foundation$1,20040%
The Wilderness Society$1,10060%
Centro de Los Derechos del Migrante Inc$1,00010%
Smithsonian Institution$1,00010%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Coastal & Northern New Jersey Inc$1,00010%
Learning Disabilities Association of America$1,00010%
Marbeatze Torah Institute$8426n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$50010%
Special Olympics Inc$50020%
Rise Against Hunger Inc$50010%
League of Women Voters of New Jersey Education Fund$50010%
March of Dimes Inc$1001n/a
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism$1001n/a
Bosleys Place Inc$10010%
Candlewood Valley Regional Land Trust$1001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Shapiro Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County: $450,600 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetGroundworks Collaborative Inc: $225,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetCenter for Food Action in New Jersey: $120,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe Ctc Academy Inc: $112,650 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDistrict Alliance for Safe Housing Inc: $103,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWesleyan University: $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTheatre Adventure Inc: $74,200 over 6y, 10% of budgetIsrael 20 Inc: $74,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetPrep for Prep: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHopkins School Incorporated: $64,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTrust Women Foundation Inc: $62,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetServicenet Inc: $60,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Greater Texas Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBallet Theatre Foundation Inc: $57,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $44,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHeightened Independence and Progress Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSpectrum for Living Development Inc: $32,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCamp Sunshine and Camp Snowflake: $30,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNew Horizons Service Dogs: $28,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetWinston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOrt America Inc: $20,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVantage Health System Inc: $17,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVoteriders: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLeague of Women Voters Education Fund: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRock the Vote: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAdvocates for Trans Equality Education Fund: $12,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Jewish Museum: $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPutney Community Cares Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetThe New England Youth Theater Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $6,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNewark Public Radio Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Immigration Law Center: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Valley Hospital Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGod's Love We Deliver Inc: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPartnership With Native Americans: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Bergen Community Action Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Petey Greene Program Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNational Yiddish Book Center Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 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 69.

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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.

Columbia Bank FoundationNJ18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbia Bank Foundation · Thomas Thompson Trust · Pseg Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · The Kaplen Foundation · Lillian P Schenck Tw Lps Fund · Henry & Marilyn Taub 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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How do I get to The Shapiro Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Shapiro Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Shapiro Family Foundation

How much does The Shapiro Family Foundation give?
The Shapiro Family Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $1,204,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 63 and 85 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Shapiro Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (22%), Education (19%), Religion (17%).
Who are The Shapiro Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County ($451k), Jewish Theological Seminary of America ($360k), Temple Emanuel ($302k).
Does The Shapiro Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Shapiro Family Foundation 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 Shapiro Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbia Bank Foundation, Thomas Thompson Trust, Pseg Foundation Inc.
Where is The Shapiro Family Foundation based?
The Shapiro Family Foundation is based in VT.

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 148 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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