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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 20-2159043

Shapell Manuscript Foundation

A private foundation in Santa Monica, CA. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 2 grants and $690,000 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

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Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $690,000

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $1,592,554

  • Tax year 2024

    $662,000

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $1,474,964

  • Tax year 2023

    $590,000

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $1,606,053

  • Tax year 2022

    $555,000

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $1,634,287

  • Tax year 2021

    $680,000

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $1,711,574

  • Tax year 2020

    $750,000

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $1,714,613

  • Tax year 2019

    $650,000

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $1,723,858

  • Tax year 2018

    $905,000

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $1,780,327

Grants paid in 2025

2 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. The B Shapell's Family Manuscript Amuta RaHerzliya Pituah, Israel

    Research of historical documents

    $680,000
  2. Jewish Funders NetworkNew York, NY

    General

    $10,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Philanthropy and grantmaking1 grant $10,000100% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. New York1 grant $10,000

Officers, directors and trustees

4 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Benjamin ShapellPRESIDENT Hours 5Pay $0
  • Joseph M MaddalenaCFO Hours 0Pay $0
  • Reynolds T CafferataSECRETARY Hours 0Pay $0
  • Jennifer Shapell SmithASSISTANT SECRETARY Hours 0Pay $0

The return

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