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Hellenic Foundation

The Hellenic Foundation's mission is to fund the development and support of programs and projects benefiting Greek American and Orthodox Christian Organizations in the Chicagoland Area.

$526k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Religion$916kRecreation & Sports$443kEducation$355kArts & Culture$253kHealth$159kPublic Benefit$53kFood & Nutrition$52kCrime & Legal$36kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 29 grants below total $513,991 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $526,363 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,372 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $310k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $128k
$11,100
Median grant
5
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Greek Met - Lighthouse$75,000
Metropolis of Chicago$52,625
St Iakovos Retreat Center$49,460
Orthodox Christian Laity$37,000
Annunciation - Kankakee$35,000
Greek Met - SIRC$25,564
National Hellenic Museum$21,232
Hellenic American Academy$16,623
St Nectarios GOC$15,743
St John the Bapstist GOC$15,533
St Peter & Paul Orthodox$14,210
Panhellenic Scholarship Found$13,692
AHEPA - Chicago$12,700
St George GOC$12,048
OCF$11,100
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HELLENIC COLLEGE OFFICE OF VOCATION: $25k → 7%AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE: $20k → 16%SACRED PATRIACHAL MONASTERY OF ST: $14k → 13%Orthodox Christian Laity: $37k → 11%ST IAKOVOS RETREAT CENTER: $148k → 10%Hellenic American Academy: $17k → 8%Annunciation - Kankakee: $35k → 14%St George GOC: $12k → 14%NIKA HOUSE: $13k → 19%HELLENIC COLLEGE OFFICE OF VOCATION: $14k → 7%ST IAKOVOS RETREAT CENTER: $50k → 10%MET OF CHICAGO FANARI CAMPING MINIS: $75k → 7%HELLENIC AMERICAN ACADEMY: $16k → 8%ST IAKOVOS RETREAT CENTER: $50k → 10%Greek Met - Lighthouse: $75k → 7%OCAMPR: $13k → 8%St Iakovos Retreat Center: $49k → 10%Metropolis of Chicago: $53k → 7%ST IAKOVOS RETREAT CENTER: $45k → 10%Greek Met - SIRC: $26k → 7%ST IAKOVOS RETREAT CENTER: $45k → 10%ST IAKAVOS RETREAT CENTER: $25k → 10%GREEK AMERICAN REHAB & CARE CENTRE: $55k → 14%GREEK AMERICAN REHAB & CARE CENTRE: $36k → 14%GREEK AMERICAN REHAB & CARE CENTRE: $12k → 14%PLATO ACADAMEY: $16k → 14%ST JOHN THE BAPTIST GOC: $16k → 14%St John the Bapstist GOC: $16k → 14%GREEK ORTHODOX METROPOLIS OF CHICAG: $100k → 14%GREEK ORTHODOX METROPOLIS OF CHICAG: $75k → 14%NATIONAL HELLENIC MUSEUM: $54k → 14%NATIONAL HELLENIC MUSEUM: $25k → 14%National Hellenic Museum: $21k → 14%NATIONAL HELLENIC MUSEUM: $16k → 14%NATIONAL HELLENIC MUSEUM: $16k → 14%NATIONAL HELLENIC MUSEUM: $15k → 14%ASIA MINOR & PONTOS HELLENIC: $40k → 14%TREATMENT ALTERNATIVES FOR SAFE COM: $20k → 14%ASIA MINOR & PONTOS HELLENIC: $18k → 14%AHEPA - Chicago: $13k → 14%ST NECTARIOS GOC: $25k → 14%St Nectarios GOC: $16k → 14%NATIONAL HELLENIC INVITATIONAL BASK: $13k → 14%St Peter & Paul Orthodox: $14k → 14%Panhellenic Scholarship Found: $14k → 14%HEARTLAND HOUSING INC: $15k → 14%HEARTLAND HOUSING INC: $15k → 14%HELLENIC LEGAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES: $18k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 25 repeat orgs$283k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
7

Total granted

$2.1M
$194k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-8%
+23%

Still filing today

56%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • GA
    GREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION AND CARE CENTRE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $131k · revenue +60%
  • PS
    Panhellenic Scholarship Foundation
    7× · 2017–2024 · $104k · revenue +20%
  • HL
    Hellenic Legal Assistance Services co Hellenic Foundation
    3× · 2017–2023 · $36k · revenue +260% · 77% of their budget

Funded once

  • CI
    CROSSROAD INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $117k · revenue -73%
  • TA
    TREATMENT ALTERNATIVES FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +77%
  • SP
    SACRED PATRIARCHAL AND STAVROPEGIAL ORTHODOX MONASTERY OF ST IRENE
    one grant, 2017 · $14k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Hellenicamericannationalcouncil Inc
—
2
Trustees of Athens College in Greece
International
3
Pan Arcadian Federation of America

An organization dedicated to promoting the principles of democracy and the ideals of hellenism, the preservation of the greek language and orthodox church and the support of arcadian & arcadian-american

—
4
Hellenic Outreach Program
Arts & Culture
5
Orpheus Foundation for Greek Music

To promote greek music, arts and culture

Arts & Culture
6
Hellenic Hearts

Provide academic scholarships and community assistance

Education
7
Panchiaki Korais Society Inc
—
8
Ahepa Hippocratic Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
9
Pano Koumantaros Cancer Research Fund Inc
Philanthropy
10
Constantinos C Polychronis Foundation
—
11
Papadopoulos Family Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Diakonia Logos
Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hellenic American Academy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Orthodox Vocation and Ministry Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%13%<5yr15%13%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr14%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%6%<5yr15%9%5–10yr19%45%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr14%6%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
15%
8,010/52,882

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.

04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 37 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
7/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST IAKOVOS RETREAT CENTER INC — $413,545 · OtherST IAKOVOS RETREAT CENTER INCORTHODOX VOCATION AND MINISTRY FOUNDATION — $322,043 · OtherORTHODOX VOCATION AND MINISTRY FOUNDATIONGreek Met - Lighthouse — $228,189 · OtherGreek Met - LighthouseGREEK ORTHODOX METROPOLIS OFCHICAGO — $185,000 · OtherGREEK ORTHODOX METROPOLIS OFCHICAGOGREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION AND CARE CENTRE — $130,994 · OtherGREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION AND CARE CENTRE+21 more — $490,181 · Other+21 moreCROSSROAD INSTITUTE INC — $117,301 · EducationCROSSROAD INS…Panhellenic Scholarship Foundation — $103,643 · EducationPanhellenic S…Hellenic American Academy Foundation — $32,763 · EducationHellenic Amer…PLATO ACADEMY INCORPORATED — $21,564 · EducationPLATO ACADEMY…National Hellenic Museum — $158,352 · Arts & CultureNational H…ASIA MINOR AND PONTOS HELLENIC RESEARCH CENTER INC — $67,700 · Arts & CultureASIA MINOR…Hellenic Legal Assistance Services co Hellenic Foundation — $35,500 · Crime & LegalTREATMENT ALTERNATIVES FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES — $20,000 · HealthRandom Acts of Flowers — $13,940 · HealthHEARTLAND HOUSING INC — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL HELLENIC INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT INC — $19,705 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,769,952Education$275,271Arts & Culture$226,052Crime & Legal$35,500Health$33,940Housing & Shelter$30,000Recreation & Sports$19,705

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetORTHODOX VOCATION AND MINISTRY FOUNDATION — $322,043 over 4y, 80% of budgetNational Hellenic Museum — $158,352 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetGREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION AND CARE CENTRE — $130,994 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCROSSROAD INSTITUTE INC — $117,301 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPanhellenic Scholarship Foundation — $103,643 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetASIA MINOR AND PONTOS HELLENIC RESEARCH CENTER INC — $67,700 over 3y, 36% of budget13TH DISTRICT ORDER OF AHEPA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC CO JOHN P VRANAS — $40,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetOrthodox Christian Laity — $37,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetHellenic Legal Assistance Services co Hellenic Foundation — $35,500 over 3y, 77% of budgetHellenic American Academy Foundation — $32,763 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHEARTLAND HOUSING INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThomas Anthony Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc — $25,500 over 2y, 34% of budgetPLATO ACADEMY INCORPORATED — $21,564 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTREATMENT ALTERNATIVES FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL HELLENIC INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT INC — $19,705 over 2y, 93% of budgetORDER OF AHEPA AHEPA FOUNDATION INC — $18,950 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHESSALONICA AGRICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE (THE AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL) — $16,896 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRandom Acts of Flowers — $13,940 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetORTHODOX CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP — $11,100 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

The John C Kulis Char…Buhler Kapsalis Famil…Vranas Family Foundat…The Renaissance Fund …Gianaras FoundationGreek American Restau…The John P Calamos Fo…Orthodox Vision Found…Greater HorizonsGs Donor Advised Phil…AbbVie FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…
The John C Kulis Charitable FoundationFL20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The John C Kulis Charitable Foundation · Buhler Kapsalis Family Foundation · Vranas Family Foundation Co John P Vranas · The Renaissance Fund NFP · Gianaras Foundation · Greek American Restaurant Association · The John P Calamos Foundation · Orthodox Vision Foundation · Greater Horizons · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

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 Hellenic 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hellenic Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hellenic Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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