Florida · Private foundation
Costas Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $310k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Costas Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $310k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $225k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $135k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $125k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $153k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $140k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $137k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $125k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harlem Children's Zone Inc | $335,000 | 5 | 0% |
| A Better Chance Inc | $240,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Teak Fellowship Inc | $184,300 | 8 | 1% |
| Dream Charter School | $113,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Adams Valve Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 53% |
| Waterside School Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Go Project Inc | $55,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Philadelphia City Rowing Inc | $44,250 | 5 | 1% |
| The Childrens Scholarship Fund | $22,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Row New York Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harlem Children's Zone Inc | $335,000 | 5 | 0% |
| A Better Chance Inc | $240,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Teak Fellowship Inc | $184,300 | 8 | 1% |
| Dream Charter School | $113,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Adams Valve Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 53% |
| Waterside School Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Go Project Inc | $55,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Philadelphia City Rowing Inc | $44,250 | 5 | 1% |
| The Childrens Scholarship Fund | $22,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Row New York Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Monmouth County | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New Jersey Seeds Inc | $17,500 | 2 | 0% |
| NJ LEEP Inc | $17,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Literacy Center | $16,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Girls Write Now Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Possibility Project Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Books for Kids Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Beat The Streets Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Nica Nadadores Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 9% |
| St Benedicts Preparatory School Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Costas Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Pinkerton Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Express Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Costas Family Foundation
- How much does Costas Family Foundation give?
- Costas Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $310,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Costas Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Human Services (25%), Youth Development (21%).
- Who are Costas Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Harlem Children's Zone Inc ($335k), A Better Chance Inc ($240k), The Teak Fellowship Inc ($184k).
- Does Costas Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Costas Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Costas Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund, Pinkerton Foundation.
- Where is Costas Family Foundation based?
- Costas Family Foundation is based in FL.
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