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Dean & Zoe Pappas Family Foundation at a glance

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Dean & Zoe Pappas 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.

$706k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.9MArts & Culture$1.2MYouth Development$1.0MHousing & Shelter$479kInternational$265kFood & Nutrition$258kRecreation & Sports$194kCommunity Improvement$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $601k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART$200,000
REVIVE SOUTH JERSEY$105,000
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF CUMBERLAND & SALEM COUNTIES$75,000
UNITED ADVOCACY GROUP$69,000
UNITED ADVOCACY GROUP$52,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY$50,000
GATEWAY COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP$50,000
STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$40,000
MILVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY$25,000
BRIDGETON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY$20,000
PHILABUNDANCE$10,000
OPERA PHILADELPHIA$5,000
THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY$5,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $450k → 7%PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $400k → 22%TRUSTEE OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $30k → 11%APPEL FARM: $78k → 11%STOCKTON UNIVERSITY: $75k → 11%UNITED ADVOCACY GROUP: $120k → 16%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $450k → 7%PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $200k → 22%APPEL FARM: $70k → 11%STOCKTON UNIVERSITY: $40k → 11%TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION: $50k → 12%REVIVE SOUTH JERSEY: $105k → 16%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $400k → 7%PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $200k → 22%STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%REVIVE SOUTH JERSEY: $105k → 16%PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $200k → 22%STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%REVIVE SOUTH JERSEY: $105k → 16%STOCKTON UNIVERSITY: $35k → 11%GATEWAY COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $100k → 16%STOCKTON UNITVERSITY: $33k → 11%REVIVE SOUTH JERSEY: $100k → 16%GATEWAY COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $80k → 16%MUDGIRLS STUDIOS: $50k → 11%BRIDGETON AREA POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $69k → 16%UNITED ADVOCACY GROUP: $69k → 16%BRIDGETON AREA POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $65k → 16%UNITED ADVOCACY GROUP: $55k → 16%UNITED ADVOCACY GROUP: $52k → 16%UNITED ADVOCACY GROUP: $51k → 16%UNITED ADVOCACY GROUP: $51k → 16%BRIDGETON AREA POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $50k → 16%GATEWAY COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $50k → 16%REVIVE SOUTH JERSEY: $40k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY: $50k → 16%MILVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $53k → 16%GATEWAY COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $35k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY: $50k → 16%MILVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $37k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY: $50k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY: $50k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY: $50k → 16%BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF CUMBERLAND & SALEM COUNTIES: $75k → 16%BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF CUMBERLAND & SALEM COUNTIES: $75k → 16%BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF CUMBERLAND & SALEM COUNTIES: $75k → 16%BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF CUMBERLAND & SALEM COUNTIES: $75k → 16%BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF CUMBERLAND & SALEM COUNTIES: $75k → 16%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 19 repeat orgs$316k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
17

Total granted

$5.0M
$291k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+37%

Still filing today

68%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalInternationalFood & NutritionEmploymentOther
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

  • WC
    Wellesley College
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.3M · revenue +63%
  • PM
    PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +14%
  • RS
    REVIVE SOUTH JERSEY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $479k · revenue +159% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

  • TC
    TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • Mud Girls Studios a NJ non profit Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +167% · 32% of their budget
  • TO
    TRUSTEE OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
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
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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2
Philips Academy Charter School of Paterson

We will provide a moral and rigorous education, accomplished in a hands-on, technology infused educational environment that will allow our students to attend college, while developing a commitment to global citizenship, environmental…

Education
3
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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4
Philips Academy Charter School Inc

Our mission is to inspire diverse learners in a rigorous and innovative environment that cultivates resilient leadership, intellectual curiosity, and thoughtful stewardship.

Education
5
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
8
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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9
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
10
The Public School of Germantown

Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…

Education
11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Advocacy Group Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mud Girls Studios a Nj non profit Corporation. 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

23 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. 23 of the 38 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
19/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CUMBERLAND & SALEM COUNTIES INC: $375,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CUMBE…TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $265,000 · OtherTRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENC…Bridgeton Area Police Athletic League Inc: $194,000 · OtherBridgeton Area Police Athletic Le…STOCKTON UNIVERSITY: $187,500 · OtherSTOCKTON UNIVERSITYAPPEL FARM: $173,000 · OtherAPPEL FARMSTOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $80,000 · Other+16 more: $325,550 · Other+16 moreWellesley College: $1,300,000 · EducationWellesley CollegeMillville Public Library: $161,768 · EducationMillville Public Library+5 more: $70,000 · EducationPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $1,000,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM O…+4 more: $35,000 · Arts & CultureREVIVE SOUTH JERSEY: $478,750 · InternationalREVIVE SOU…UNITED ADVOCACY GROUP INC: $397,950 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY: $250,000 · Crime & LegalPhilabundance: $50,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,600,050Education$1,531,768Arts & Culture$1,035,000International$478,750Youth Development$397,950Crime & Legal$250,000Food & Nutrition$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWellesley College: $1,300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetREVIVE SOUTH JERSEY: $478,750 over 6y, 29% of budgetUNITED ADVOCACY GROUP INC: $397,950 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CUMBERLAND & SALEM COUNTIES INC: $375,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetTRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $265,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY: $250,000 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetBridgeton Area Police Athletic League Inc: $194,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetMillville Public Library: $161,768 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetSTOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPhilabundance: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMud Girls Studios a NJ non profit Corporation: $50,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetOPERA PHILADELPHIA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIQUON SCHOOL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Jersey Audubon Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NETWORK GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $2,650 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Oceanfirst FoundationCommunity Foundation …Td Charitable Foundat…The Philadelphia Foun…Dollar General Litera…Pascale Sykes Foundat…The William Penn Foun…Princeton Area Commun…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…
Oceanfirst FoundationNJ21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oceanfirst Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Td Charitable Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Pascale Sykes Foundation Inc 5575-00-42 · The William Penn Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Dean & Zoe Pappas Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dean & Zoe Pappas Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • United Advocacy Group Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Revive South Jersey: 38% of income from government
  • Tri-County Community Action Agency Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Millville Public Library: 3% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • New Jersey Audubon Society: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 38 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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By state
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