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The Shapiro 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.

$5.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
85
Grants FY2024
73
Organizations funded FY2023
27%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
73 to 122
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
21
Total assets, FY2024
$124M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations The Shapiro 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; $1.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesInternationalEducationPhilanthropyHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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 arriving84$5.2M36%
FY202373$11M27%
FY202286$8.3M48%
FY2021122$7.0M57%
FY202079$8.5M30%
FY201992$8.1M55%
FY2018112$8.3M53%
FY201783$5.7Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$24MEducation$11MHealth$8.5MHuman Services$7.2MHousing & Shelter$4.1MPhilanthropy$3.2MReligion$1.9MEmployment$1.3MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
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MO
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MD
DE
NM
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AR
TN
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DC
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GA
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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
Children's Hospital Corporation$5,187,16080%
Rashi School Inc$2,772,2128n/a
Boston Medical Center Corporation$2,638,50080%
Horizons for Homeless Children$2,557,04675%
International Refugee Assistance Project Inc$2,257,36052%
Choose Love Inc$2,087,00028%
International Rescue Committee INC$1,960,00030%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$1,900,00060%
Miles4migrants$1,854,058631%
Social Finance Inc$1,653,00082%
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All grantees of The Shapiro Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Children's Hospital Corporation$5,187,16080%
Rashi School Inc$2,772,2128n/a
Boston Medical Center Corporation$2,638,50080%
Horizons for Homeless Children$2,557,04675%
International Refugee Assistance Project Inc$2,257,36052%
Choose Love Inc$2,087,00028%
International Rescue Committee INC$1,960,00030%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$1,900,00060%
Miles4migrants$1,854,058631%
Social Finance Inc$1,653,00082%
Refugee Home Project Inc$1,483,800653%
United States Fund for Unicef$1,194,00050%
Alight$1,124,59631%
Airbnborg Inc$1,100,10026%
Year Up Inc$1,090,00040%
Focusing Philanthropy Inc$969,05551%
Southern New Hampshire University$873,62560%
Duet Inc$818,40577%
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals$807,00020%
Karam Foundation$797,427512%
The Beaver Country Day School Inc$791,43680%
Refugepoint Inc$752,77954%
International Crisis Group$616,00033%
Home Is Here Nola$600,000393%
Tenacity Inc$537,50074%
The Match Foundation Inc$500,00024%
New Profit Inc$500,00021%
Hias Inc$492,93650%
Jewish Big Brother & Big Sister Association of Greater Boston$428,78656%
The Niskanen Center Inc$414,81342%
Maoz Inc$400,00025%
Humanity Rises Inc$360,000823%
Bridge2rwanda Inc$343,25084%
Political Asylumimmigration Representation Project Inc$334,00049%
Edesia Inc$325,00050%
Friends of the University of Ottawa$300,000140%
International Institute of New England Inc$259,50031%
Temple Beth Elohim$226,1524n/a
Team Impact Inc$199,50081%
Opencollective Foundation$160,00020%
Teach for America Inc$155,00080%
President and Trustees of Bates College$154,30040%
Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village Inc$153,00042%
Lions Club International$150,0001n/a
Every Campus a Refuge$140,000320%
The Global Development Incubator Inc$137,00011%
Alima USA Inc$130,00031%
Hebrew Senior Life Inc$125,00020%
Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc$118,00323%
Japan Icu Foundation Inc$118,00028%
Malengo Inc$105,00019%
The Shalem Foundation$100,00040%
American Friends of Maoz-Seal Inc$100,00012%
Impactisrael Inc$100,00021%
Franciscan Hospital for Children$100,00050%
Emory Group Return$97,85050%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$93,14750%
Thrive Scholars$80,00040%
De Novo Center for Justice and Healing$76,50032%
Brothers for Life$75,00032%
Summits Education$75,00026%
Share Our Strength$71,20020%
Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc$70,22020%
Anu Foundation USA$65,000111%
New Roots Fund$50,00019%
Border Servant Corps Inc$50,00010%
Justice Action Center$50,00021%
English for New Bostonians Inc$50,00022%
Root Capital Inc$50,00020%
Global Response Management Inc$50,0001n/a
Soles4souls Inc$50,00050%
Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc$48,51510%
Bentley University$45,00030%
Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services$44,00051%
SparkShare Inc$40,0004n/a
Rian Immigrant Center Inc$40,00011%
Refugee Investment Network Inc$40,0001n/a
The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children$40,00080%
Keeping Our Promise Inc$35,00023%
Places to Thrive$32,0001n/a
Fund More Good Foundation Inc$32,00023%
White Star Education Foundation$32,00012%
Brave Generation Inc$30,4001n/a
Network of Engaged International Donors Global Inc$30,05051%
Welcomenst Inc$30,00022%
Immigrant Family Services Institute Inc$30,00012%
The Boston Bridges Initiative Inc$30,00036%
National Center for Civic Innovation In$30,00010%
Education for All Children$30,00031%
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc$26,50050%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$26,00020%
Americares Foundation Inc$25,50020%
Habibi International$25,000114%
Refugees International Inc$25,00011%
Third Sector New England Inc$25,00010%
Goodnation Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Hope and Comfort Inc$25,00010%
Boston Bullpen Project Inc$22,50035%
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$22,50040%
Squashbusters Inc$20,60060%
Humanitarian Innovation Group Inc$20,00018%
Trustees of Tufts College$20,00020%
Courageous Parents Networkinc$20,0002n/a
African Leadership Foundation$20,00020%
Masschallenge Inc$20,00020%
Jewish Family Service of San Diego$18,00010%
Principe Productions Inc$15,00023%
Wayuu Taya Foundationinc$15,00011%
The George Washington University$15,00010%
Honestreportingcom Inc$13,80040%
Connecticut Immigrant & Refugee Coalition$13,50016%
Talent Beyond Boundaries Inc$11,65012%
Upwardly Global$11,00020%
Migration Policy Institute$10,35810%
Arlekin Players Theatre$10,00011%
Health Law Advocates Inc$10,00011%
Justin J Watt Foundation Inc$10,00011%
The Zaka Khan Foundation Inc$10,00017%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc$10,00010%
Goldrich Family Foundation$10,00010%
Action Against Hunger - USA$10,00010%
Minority Humanitarian Foundation$10,00012%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$10,00020%
The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc$10,00010%
Rainbow Railroad USA Inc$10,00010%
Kiva User Funds LLC$10,0001n/a
Uncornered Inc$10,00010%
Refuge Coffee Co$9,50040%
Media Matters for America$7,50010%
Emma's Torch Ltd$7,50020%
DC Scores$7,35220%
Jewish Vocational Service Inc$6,28820%
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$6,00020%
The Second Step Inc$5,95030%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$5,63330%
Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh and Educ Cent Inc$5,1802n/a
Catholic Charitable Bureau of the Archdiocese of Boston Inc$5,00010%
Families First Parenting Program Inc$5,00020%
Youth Villages Inc$5,00010%
College Unbound$5,00010%
Israel Lacrosse Association Inc$5,00010%
Kataluma Inc$5,00015%
Operation Sacred Promise Foundation$5,00014%
Open Avenues Foundation$5,00012%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Cache Refugee and Immigrant Connection$5,00010%
Roxbury Presbyterian Church Social Impact Center Inc$5,00012%
Project Citizenship Inc$5,00011%
Welcoming Initiative for Newcomers$5,0001n/a
Opendor Media Inc$4,60010%
Becca Schmill Foundation Inc$3,50022%
Anti-Defamation League$3,32020%
Women & Infants Hospital of Ri$2,50010%
Children's Hospital League Corporation$2,50010%
Beautiful Day$2,50011%
The Immigrant Learning Center Inc$2,00020%
Congregation Bnai Tzedek$1,8001n/a
Union for Reform Judaism$1,8001n/a
American Association of Museums$1,80010%
Adaptive Sports Partners of North Country Inc$1,44430%
Our Generation Speaks Inc$1,31310%
Blood Cancer United Inc$1,25020%
Children's Miracle Network$1,10410%
Moving Traditions$1,08020%
Hillels of Georgia Inc$1,08020%
One Voice$1,02310%
Solutions in Hometown Connections$1,00011%
Colorado Hosting Asylum Network$1,0001n/a
New American Pathways Inc$1,00010%
Des Moines Refugee Support$1,00010%
Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc$1,00010%
Community Asylum Seekers Project Inc$1,00011%
International Institute of Minnesota$1,00010%
Covenant House$1,00010%
Usahello$1,00010%
Nationalities Service Center of Philadelphia$1,00010%
Boston Partners in Education Inc$1,00010%
Center for Transformative Action$1,00010%
Rally Foundation Inc$1,00010%
AsylumWorks$1,00010%
American Parkinson Disease Assoc$1,00010%
Refugee Development Center$1,00010%
Refugee Services of Texas Inc$1,00010%
Church World Service Inc$1,00010%
NorCal Resist$1,00010%
The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc$1,00020%
Kim's Open Door Inc$1,00010%
Inspiritus Inc$1,00010%
Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge$1,00010%
Interfaith Works of Central New York$1,00010%
Journey's End Refugee Services Inc$1,00010%
Lutheran Social Services of Colorado$1,00010%
Relief International Inc$1,00010%
Hearts and Homes for Refugees$1,00010%
Human Rights First$1,00010%
East Central Illinois Refugee Mutual$1,00010%
Catherine McAuley Center Inc$1,00010%
Minnesota Council of Churches$1,0001n/a
Della Lamb Community Services$1,00010%
Community Refugee & Immigration Services Inc$1,00010%
Terezin Music Foundation Inc$83610%
National Brain Tumor Society Inc$75020%
Needham Athletic Boosters Club$60020%
HomeStart Inc$52510%
Blessed Are the Flexible Corporation$515112%
The Posse Foundation Inc$51310%
Friends of Refugees Inc$51210%
Amani Women Center Inc$51210%
Pine Tree Society Inc$50010%
The Baseball Inc$50010%
Rob Cunningham Foundation$5001n/a
American Diabetes Association$50010%
International Community School$50010%
American Macular Degeneration Goehring$50010%
Zumix Inc$50020%
Refugee Womens Network Inc$50010%
Grad Bag Inc$50010%
Ouko Community Initiatives Inc$5001n/a
Rebekahs Angels Foundation Inc$50010%
Marks Northeastern Furniture Foundation Inc$5001n/a
Interfaith Center of New York Inc$50010%
One Mission Inc$27510%
Falmouth Road Race Inc$27310%
Jane Doe Inc the Ma Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence$26310%
The Life Is Good Playmaker Project Inc$26110%
Corporal Mark Goyet Memorial Foundation Inc$2601n/a
School the World Inc$25310%
Yachad Inc$25010%
Golf Fights Cancer Inc$25010%
American Junior Golf Association Inc$25010%
Jewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc$25010%
Parkinsons Unity Walk Inc$25010%
Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation$25010%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$20630%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$1801n/a
Best Buddies International Inc$18010%
Muslim Youth Camp of California$10510%
Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc$10020%
Trevor Project Inc$10010%
2life Communities Inc$10010%
Harbor Head Tennis Club Inc$10010%
The Youth Mental Health Project$10010%
American Cancer Society Inc$10010%
Emergency Assistance Foundation Inc$10010%
Trustees of Boston University$8410%
Hebrew College$7210%
The Andrew McDonough B Foundation$5010%
Needham Goes Purple Inc$5010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$5010%
Theatre Development Fund Inc$4010%
Uss Constitution Museum Inc$3010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 127 recipients with no EIN on record ($14M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Shapiro Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $5,187,160 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Medical Center Corporation: $2,638,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHorizons for Homeless Children: $2,557,046 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetInternational Refugee Assistance Project Inc: $2,257,360 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetChoose Love Inc: $2,087,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,960,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $1,900,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMiles4migrants: $1,854,058 over 6y, 31% of budgetSocial Finance Inc: $1,653,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetRefugee Home Project Inc: $1,483,800 over 6y, 53% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $1,194,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAlight: $1,124,596 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAirbnborg Inc: $1,100,100 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetYear Up Inc: $1,090,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFocusing Philanthropy Inc: $969,055 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSouthern New Hampshire University: $873,625 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDuet Inc: $818,405 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetWorld Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: $807,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKaram Foundation: $797,427 over 5y, 12% of budgetThe Beaver Country Day School Inc: $791,436 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetRefugepoint Inc: $752,779 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetInternational Crisis Group: $616,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetHome Is Here Nola: $600,000 over 3y, 93% of budgetTenacity Inc: $537,500 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetThe Match Foundation Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetNew Profit Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHias Inc: $492,936 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJewish Big Brother & Big Sister Association of Greater Boston: $428,786 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetThe Niskanen Center Inc: $414,813 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetMaoz Inc: $400,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetHumanity Rises Inc: $360,000 over 8y, 23% of budgetBridge2rwanda Inc: $343,250 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetPolitical Asylumimmigration Representation Project Inc: $334,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetEdesia Inc: $325,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the University of Ottawa: $300,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetInternational Institute of New England Inc: $259,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTeam Impact Inc: $199,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetOpencollective Foundation: $160,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $155,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Trustees of Bates College: $154,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAgahozo-Shalom Youth Village Inc: $153,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetEvery Campus a Refuge: $140,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetThe Global Development Incubator Inc: $137,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAlima USA Inc: $130,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc: $118,003 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetJapan Icu Foundation Inc: $118,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetMalengo Inc: $105,000 over 1y, 9.2% 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 200.

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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.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA74.3× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Fish Family Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Lissy 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.

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About The Shapiro Foundation

How much does The Shapiro Foundation give?
The Shapiro Foundation reported 85 grants totaling $5,181,775 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 73 and 122 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Shapiro Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (37%), Education (16%), Health (13%).
Who are The Shapiro Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Children's Hospital Corporation ($5.2M), Rashi School Inc ($2.8M), Boston Medical Center Corporation ($2.6M).
Does The Shapiro Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Shapiro 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 Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).
Where is The Shapiro Foundation based?
The Shapiro Foundation is based in MA.

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 386 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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