Shapiro-Silverberg Foundation

• Shapiro-Silverberg Foundation does not accept unsolicited requests and gives by invitation only, so an organisation without an invitation should not send an application.
• No geographic focus is stated, so location alone should not rule an organisation out, and the filing describes grants across Jewish communal and cultural bodies, universities and research institutions, legal services for children, policy institutes, schools, health organisations and museums.
• Most grants are modest, with half of its 66 grants to organisations at $60,000 or less and about 8 in 10 falling between $5,000 and $1,650,000, although its largest grant was $5,000,000, so a request should be sized to real need rather than to that band.
• Three quarters of its grant dollars to organisations went to groups it had also funded in its earlier filings, so a warm introduction is likely to matter more than a cold approach.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• American Jewish Committee · Charitable
  $3,600,0002025 tax year
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston · Charitable
  $3,000,0002025 tax year
• UJA Federation of New York · Charitable
  $1,500,0002025 tax year
• Rockefeller University · Charitable
  $1,288,9502025 tax year
• New Jewish Home · Charitable
  $1,250,0002025 tax year
• Lawyers for Children · Charitable
  $550,0002025 tax year
• Washington Institute for Near East Policy · Charitable
  $230,0002025 tax year
• Tony Blair Foundation · Charitable
  $200,0002025 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.