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Buhler Kapsalis 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $97k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASCENSION OF OUR LORD GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $64,812 |
| PANHELLENIC SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $47,150 |
| THE ARCHBISHOP IAKOVOS LEADERSHIP 100 FUND | $10,000 |
| GREEK ORTHODOX METROPOLIS OF CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HELLENIC AMERICAN ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| HELLENIC BAR ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS | $5,000 |
| HOLY MONASTERY OF THE ASCENSION | $5,000 |
| GREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION & CARE CENTRE INC | $3,500 |
| GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS | $2,111 |
| MICHAEL SKOUBIS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL HELLENIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| COUNTING CORAL FOUNDATION | $1,023 |
| SAINT TABITHA HOME | $1,019 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- AHAMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +94%
- GAGREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION AND CARE CENTRE2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +12%
- OVORTHODOX VOLUNTEER CORPS2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +373%
Funded once
- HMHOLY MONASTERY OF PANAGIA KALYVIANO PYRGIOTISSISone grant, 2021 · $11k
- HIHELLENIC INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +1%
- SIST IAKOVOS RETREAT CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
To promote greek music, arts and culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Hellenic Institute Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Vakhtang Gorgasali Orthodox Church. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
16 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. 16 of the 56 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 Panhellenic Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds National Hellenic Museum ↗
- Who funds HELLENIC INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL SKOUBIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION AND CARE CENTRE ↗
- Who funds SCULPTURE MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds ORTHODOX VOLUNTEER CORPS ↗
- Who funds THE JOSEPH PETER BARTZIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIPPOCRATIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Demetra and Eric Vassilatos Foundation ↗
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: Gianaras Foundation · Metropoulos Family Foundation · The John P Calamos Foundation · Hellenic Foundation · The James & Theodore Pedas Family Foundation Inc · Nicholas J and Anna K Bouras Foundation Inc · The John C Kulis Charitable Foundation · The George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation II · Greek American Restaurant Association · Vranas Family Foundation Co John P Vranas · Cathy and George Sakellaris Family Foundation · The Renaissance Fund NFP
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 Buhler Kapsalis 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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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