· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $601k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| GATEWAY COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP | $50,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY | $50,000 |
| STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| MILVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| BRIDGETON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $10,000 |
| THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| OPERA PHILADELPHIA | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- WCWellesley College3× · 2017–2019 · $1.3M · revenue +63%
- PMPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART4× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +14%
- RSREVIVE SOUTH JERSEY6× · 2019–2024 · $479k · revenue +159% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
Mud Girls Studios a NJ non profit Corporationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +167% · 32% of their budget- TCTRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
- TOTRUSTEE OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $30k
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.
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…
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…
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…
Our mission is to inspire diverse learners in a rigorous and innovative environment that cultivates resilient leadership, intellectual curiosity, and thoughtful stewardship.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
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…
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
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
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…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Advocacy Group Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 38 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 Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds REVIVE SOUTH JERSEY ↗
- Who funds UNITED ADVOCACY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CUMBERLAND & SALEM COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Bridgeton Area Police Athletic League Inc ↗
- Who funds Millville Public Library ↗
- Who funds STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds Mud Girls Studios a NJ non profit Corporation ↗
- Who funds ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY ↗
- Who funds OPERA PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds THE MIQUON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS GREAT KIDS FARM FOUNDTN IN ↗
- Who funds Seabrook Educational & Cultural Center Inc ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds BIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY NETWORK GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
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: 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
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 Dean & Zoe Pappas 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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.