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Demetra C Vagelos Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Demetra C Vagelos Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$137kEducation$13kHuman Services$9kHealth$2kArts & Culture$300Food & Nutrition$117International$100Other$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $1k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
$600
Median grant
1
States reached
$406k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST SPYRIDON GREEK ORTHODOX$25,770
ST CATHERINE GREEK ORTHODOX$600
ST MARK'S GREEK ORTHODOX$600
SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ART$100
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HELLENIC COLLEGE: $11k → 7%SAINT BASIL ACADEMY: $100 → 6%SAINT MICHAEL'S HOME: $200 → 9%MASONIC MEDICAL RESEARCH: $700 → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $500 → 17%THE SALVATION ARMY: $5k → 11%ST SPYRIDON GREEK ORTHODOX: $26k → 13%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $200 → 14%ST GEORGE GREEK ORTHODOX: $100 → 6%GREEK ORTHODOX METROPOL: $3k → 10%IOCC: $100 → 11%HELLENIC COLLEGE: $700 → 7%SAINT MICHAEL'S HOME: $200 → 9%MASONIC MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $200 → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $250 → 17%THE SALVATION ARMY: $2k → 11%ST SPYRIDON GREEK ORTHODOX: $21k → 13%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $100 → 14%GREEK ORTHODOX METROPOL: $700 → 10%THE SALVATION ARMY: $425 → 11%ST SPYRIDON GREEK ORTHODOX: $19k → 13%AMERICAN BALLET THERTRE: $763 → 17%THE SALVATION ARMY: $210 → 11%ST SPYRIDON GREEK ORTHODOX: $11k → 13%THE SALVATION ARMY: $176 → 11%ST SPYRIDON GREEK ORTHODOX: $6k → 13%ST MARK'S GREEK ORTHODOX: $19k → 11%ST SPYRIDON GREEK ORTHODOX: $3k → 13%ST MARK'S GREEK ORTHODOX: $14k → 11%ST SPYRIDON GREEK ORTHODOX: $1k → 13%ST MARK'S GREEK ORTHODOX: $3k → 11%ST SPYRIDON GREEK ORTHODOX: $820 → 13%ST MARK'S GREEK ORTHODOX: $2k → 11%ST SPYRIDON GREEK ORTHODOX: $760 → 13%ST MARK'S GREEK ORTHODOX: $950 → 11%ST MARK'S GREEK ORTHODOX: $700 → 11%ST MARK'S GREEK ORTHODOX: $600 → 11%ST MARK'S GREEK ORTHODOX: $600 → 11%ST MARK'S GREEK ORTHODOX: $600 → 11%ST CATHERINE GREEK ORTHODOX: $1k → 11%ST CATHERINE GREEK ORTHODOX: $832 → 11%ST CATHERINE GREEK ORTHODOX: $755 → 11%ST CATHERINE GREEK ORTHODOX: $600 → 11%ST CATHERINE GREEK ORTHODOX: $600 → 11%ST CATHERINE GREEK ORTHODOX: $600 → 11%ST CATHERINE GREEK ORTHODOX: $600 → 11%ST CATHERINE GREEK ORTHODOX: $600 → 11%ST CATHERINE GREEK ORTHODOX: $600 → 11%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

IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
MD
NC
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$163k · 14 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
9

Total granted

$163k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+221%

Still filing today

29%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalOther
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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $400 · revenue +32%
  • COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $400 · revenue +37%
  • NY
    New York University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $235 · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    7× · 2019–2025 · $763
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    5× · 2021–2025 · $700
  • MM
    MASONIC MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $200
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
7/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST SPYRIDON GREEK ORTHODOX: $88,250 · OtherST SPYRIDON GREEK ORTHODOXST MARK'S GREEK ORTHODOX: $41,155 · OtherST MARK'S GREEK ORTHODOXHELLENIC COLLEGE INC: $11,800 · OtherHELLENIC COLLEGE INCTHE SALVATION ARMY: $8,186 · OtherST CATHERINE GREEK ORTHODOX: $6,287 · Other+13 more: $7,875 · OtherTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $750 · EducationCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $400 · EducationNew York University: $235 · EducationALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $400 · HealthThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $200 · Arts & CultureINT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC: $100 · International
Other$163,553Education$1,385Health$400Arts & Culture$200International$100

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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $235 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetINT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC: $100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAGES INITIATIVES: $50 over 8y, 0.1% 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 THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds AGES INITIATIVES ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc: 7% 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.

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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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