· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $454k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $687k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL | $200,000 |
| SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF BERGEN COUNTY | $150,000 |
| WINDHAM WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST (WWHT) | $75,000 |
| CHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER (CTC) ACADEMY | $62,000 |
| DISTRICT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOUSING (DASH) | $50,000 |
| ENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION (EHMC) | $50,000 |
| PASSAIC COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA | $50,000 |
| GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE | $45,000 |
| TEMPLE EMANU-EL | $30,000 |
| HOPKINS SCHOOL | $27,000 |
| HEIGHTENED INDEPENDENCE AND PROGRESS (HIP) | $25,000 |
| WINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT | $25,000 |
| THEATRE ADVENTURE | $24,200 |
| BRIGID'S ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
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, $299k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
102 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 64 since wound down; 11 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k 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
- TSTHE SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF BERGEN COUNTY7× · 2017–2024 · $451k · revenue +41%
- GCGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +186%
- CFCENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY7× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +249%
Funded once
- SBSHERWIN B NULAND FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $25k
- CUCITY UNIVERSITY OF NYone grant, 2020 · $25k
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bosleys Place Inc. 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 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
77 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. 77 of the 148 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 THE SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF BERGEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CTC ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ADVENTURE INC ↗
- Who funds Israel 20 Inc ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds HOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Trust Women Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SERVICENET INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds HEIGHTENED INDEPENDENCE AND PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM FOR LIVING DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AND CAMP SNOWFLAKE ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
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: 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
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 Shapiro Family 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.
- Servicenet Inc — 82% of income from government
- Groundworks Collaborative Inc — 73% of income from government
- Greater Bergen Community Action Inc — 62% of income from government
- Aids Project of Southern Vermont — 55% of income from government
- Newark Public Radio Inc — 51% of income from government
- Heightened Independence and Progress Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Petey Greene Program Inc — 29% of income from government
- Vantage Health System Inc — 19% of income from government
- Women's Rights Information Center — 16% of income from government
- Centro De Los Derechos Del Migrante Inc — 4% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Center for Food Action in New Jersey — 0% of income from government
- Theatre Adventure 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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