· Private foundation
Gianaras 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION | $16,700 |
| NATIONAL HELLENIC MUSEUM | $15,200 |
| ARCHBISHOP IAKOVOS LEADERSHIP 100 FUND | $14,000 |
| ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ALPHA 4TH OF JULY | $10,000 |
| ORDER OF ST ANDREW THE APOSTLE | $9,400 |
| ASCENSION OF OUR LORD GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $6,500 |
| ST ANDREWS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $6,000 |
| ST NORBERT CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| HELLENIC BAR ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| CRYSTAL FALLS CONTEMPORARY CENTER | $5,000 |
| WILLISTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO WOLVES CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| GREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION & CARE CENTER | $5,000 |
| ST NECTARIOS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $3,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $238k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 6 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LCLITTLE CITY FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $217k · revenue +55%
- BCBAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP3× · 2017–2023 · $113k · revenue +65%
- HCHIPPOCRATIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- HCHELLENIC COLLEGE INCone grant, 2023 · $100k
- WCWESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $15k
- WFWESTERN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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.
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
The mission shall be to provide fundraising, advocacy, and advisory support for cancer research at the comprehensive cancer center at the university of chicago.
The primary purpose of the chicago home for incurables, ("the home"), is to provide financial support to the university of chicago for the operation of patient care facilities and funding of research of incurable diseases at the university…
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
The hairy cell leukemia foundation is dedicated to improving outcomes for patients by advancing research into the causes and treatment of hairy cell leukemia, as well as by providing educational resources and comfort to all those affected…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…
The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 71 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 National Hellenic Museum ↗
- Who funds LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds HELLENIC BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HIPPOCRATIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP SWIMMING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION AND CARE CENTRE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO WOLVES CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds WILLISTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORPHANS OF THE STORM ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS 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.
Open a dossier: Buhler Kapsalis Family Foundation · The John C Kulis Charitable Foundation · Hellenic Foundation · Greek American Restaurant Association · Vranas Family Foundation Co John P Vranas · The Renaissance Fund NFP · The John P Calamos Foundation · Metropoulos Family Foundation · Joannides Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Greater Horizons
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gianaras Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gianaras Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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