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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.

$189k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$336kEducation$90kHousing & Shelter$30kPublic Benefit$14kCrime & Legal$10kArts & Culture$10kHuman Services$8kInternational$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $97k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$2,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$572k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASCENSION OF OUR LORD GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH$64,812
PANHELLENIC SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$47,150
GREEK ORTHODOX METROPOLIS OF CHICAGO$10,000
THE ARCHBISHOP IAKOVOS LEADERSHIP 100 FUND$10,000
AMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION$10,000
HELLENIC AMERICAN ACADEMY$10,000
ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW FOUNDATION$10,000
HOLY MONASTERY OF THE ASCENSION$5,000
HELLENIC BAR ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%COUNTING CORAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%ORTHODOX VOLUNTEER CORPS: $1k → 11%GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS: $26k → 7%DORMITION OF THE VIRGIN MARY: $10k → 7%NATIONAL HELLENIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: $2k → 17%WASHINGTON OXI DAY FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%PANEPIROTIC FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $1k → 8%DORMITION OF THE MOTHER OF GOD MONSTERY: $1k → 13%HOLY TRINITY GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $1k → 9%ST IAKOVOS RETREAT CENTER: $3k → 10%SCULPTURE MILWAUKEE: $3k → 17%HELLENIC AMERICAN ACADEMY: $10k → 8%ST GEORGE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $27k → 14%GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS: $4k → 7%DORMITION OF THE VIRGIN MARY: $5k → 7%THE ARCHBISHOP IAKOVOS LEADERSHIP 100 FUND: $10k → 17%HELLENIC AMERICAN ACADEMY: $2k → 8%HELLENIC AMERICAN POLICE ASSOCIATION: $2k → 14%GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS: $2k → 7%THE HELLENIC INTIATIVE: $5k → 17%GREEK ORTHODOX METROPOLIS OF CHICAGO: $10k → 7%ASCENSION OF OUR LORD GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $65k → 8%ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%AMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%GREEK ORTHODOX METROPOLIS OF CHICAGO: $3k → 7%ASCENSION OF OUR LORD GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $31k → 8%ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%AMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $9k → 14%JOSEPH PETER BARTZIS FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%ASCENSION OF OUR LORD GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $17k → 8%ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%AMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%HELLENIC BAR ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $5k → 7%ASCENSION OF OUR LORD GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $10k → 8%GREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION & CARE CENTRE INC: $4k → 14%ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%HELLENIC BAR ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $5k → 7%GREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION & CARE CENTRE INC: $1k → 14%GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF AMERICA: $3k → 17%THE ORDER OF ST ANDREW: $2k → 17%ST VAKHTANG GORGASALI ORTHODOX CHURCH: $5k → 8%ANNUNCIATION GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL OF CHICAGO: $3k → 14%ST VAKHTANG GORGASALI ORTHODOX CHURCH: $2k → 8%HIPPOCRATIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 14%NATIONAL HELLENIC MUSEUM: $5k → 14%PANHELLENIC SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $47k → 14%PANHELLENIC SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%MICHAEL SKOUBIS FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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WI
MI
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MA
PA
CA
MD
AZ
DC
HI
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$454k · 25 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
24

Total granted

$454k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-16%
+4%

Still filing today

28%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureReligionHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AH
    AMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +94%
  • GA
    GREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION AND CARE CENTRE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +12%
  • OV
    ORTHODOX VOLUNTEER CORPS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +373%

Funded once

  • HM
    HOLY MONASTERY OF PANAGIA KALYVIANO PYRGIOTISSIS
    one grant, 2021 · $11k
  • HI
    HELLENIC INITIATIVE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +1%
  • SI
    ST IAKOVOS RETREAT CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Pano Koumantaros Cancer Research Fund Inc
Philanthropy
2
National Hellenic Invitational Basketball Tournament Inc
Recreation & Sports
3
Papadopoulos Family Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Constantinos C Polychronis Foundation
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5
Trustees of Athens College in Greece
International
6
Orpheus Foundation for Greek Music

To promote greek music, arts and culture

Arts & Culture
7
The Andrew Stergiopoulos Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Demoulas Foundation
—
9
Argyros Family Foundation
—
10
The Paros Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Aris Anagnos Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
12
Hellenicamericannationalcouncil Inc
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Hellenic Institute Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASCENSION OF OUR LORD GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $123,791 · OtherASCENSION OF OUR LORD GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCHCHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS: $32,961 · OtherCHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSSIndividual grant recipient: $29,861 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST GEORGE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $29,175 · OtherST GEORGE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCHHOLY MONASTERY OF KOIMISISS TIS THEOTOKOU: $20,007 · OtherHOLY MONASTERY OF KOIMISISS TIS THEOTOKOUDORMITION OF THE VIRGIN MARY: $15,000 · OtherGREEK ORTHODOX METROPOLIS OFCHICAGO: $13,000 · OtherHOLY MONASTERY OF THE ASCENSION: $12,000 · Other+36 more: $83,314 · Other+36 morePanhellenic Scholarship Foundation: $57,150 · EducationPanhellenic Schola…AMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $24,500 · EducationAMERICAN HELLENIC …+1 more: $100 · EducationEcumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Foundation Inc: $40,000 · ReligionEcumenical…ST VAKHTANG GORGASALI ORTHODOX CHURCH: $6,500 · ReligionST VAKHTAN…National Hellenic Museum: $6,000 · Arts & CultureSCULPTURE MILWAUKEE INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureWashington Oxi Day Foundation: $1,000 · Arts & CultureHELLENIC INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 · InternationalTHE MICHAEL SKOUBIS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE JOSEPH PETER BARTZIS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthHIPPOCRATIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,100 · Health
Other$359,109Education$81,750Religion$46,500Arts & Culture$9,500International$5,000Youth Development$5,000Health$3,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPanhellenic Scholarship Foundation: $57,150 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetEcumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $24,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNational Hellenic Museum: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHELLENIC INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MICHAEL SKOUBIS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetGREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION AND CARE CENTRE: $4,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCULPTURE MILWAUKEE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JOSEPH PETER BARTZIS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetORTHODOX VOLUNTEER CORPS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHIPPOCRATIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWashington Oxi Day Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDemetra and Eric Vassilatos Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $365 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 THE JOSEPH PETER BARTZIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ORTHODOX VOLUNTEER CORPS ↗
  • Who funds HIPPOCRATIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Washington Oxi Day Foundation ↗

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.

Gianaras FoundationMetropoulos Family Fo…The John P Calamos Fo…Hellenic FoundationThe James & Theodore …Nicholas J and Anna K…The John C Kulis Char…The George and Judy M…Greek American Restau…Vranas Family Foundat…Cathy and George Sake…The Renaissance Fund …
Gianaras FoundationIL20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Buhler Kapsalis Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Buhler Kapsalis Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Buhler Kapsalis Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Buhler Kapsalis Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 56 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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