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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.

$454k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$64k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$916kRecreation & Sports$443kEducation$355kArts & Culture$253kHealth$159kPublic Benefit$53kFood & Nutrition$52kCrime & Legal$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 29 grants below total $400,396, the rows itemized in this filing. The $453,828 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $53,432 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $228k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
$9,934
Median grant
5
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Met of Chicago - Lighthouse$64,153
OCA$28,726
Hellenic American Academy$28,448
Annunciation - Kankakee$26,000
St John the Baptist GOC TEAM$23,557
AHEPA - Chicago$17,500
Panhellenic Scholarship Found$17,160
St John the Bapstist GOC$16,033
St Sophia Greek Othodox$14,840
13th District Order of Ahepa$13,500
AHEPA - Chicago$11,625
Met of Chicago YAL Conferenc$10,597
National Hellenic Society$10,000
Panhellenic Scholarship Found$10,000
St Haralambos GOC$9,934
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:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Life Organization Inc: $9k → 14%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 28 repeat orgs$327k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
9

Total granted

$2.5M
$241k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-29%
-21%

Still filing today

54%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • GA
    GREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION AND CARE CENTRE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $131k · revenue +60%
  • PS
    Panhellenic Scholarship Foundation
    8× · 2017–2025 · $131k · 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%
  • OC
    Orthodox Christian Laity
    one grant, 2024 · $37k · revenue -33% · 29% of their budget
  • TA
    TREATMENT ALTERNATIVES FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +77%
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
Hellenicamericannationalcouncil Inc
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2
Trustees of Athens College in Greece
International
3
Hellenic Outreach Program
Arts & Culture
4
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

—
5
Panchiaki Korais Society Inc
—
6
Hellenic Hearts

Provide academic scholarships and community assistance

Education
7
Orpheus Foundation for Greek Music

To promote greek music, arts and culture

Arts & Culture
8
Ahepa Hippocratic Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
9
Pano Koumantaros Cancer Research Fund Inc
Philanthropy
10
International Hellenic Association

The mission of IHA is to promote the ancient Hellenic ideals of education, philanthropy, civic responsibility, family, and individual excellence throughcommunity service and volunteerism.

Arts & Culture
11
Constantinos C Polychronis Foundation
—
12
Hellenic Preservation Society of Northeastern Ohio

To preserve and perpetuate the Hellenic experience through Education, Collection and Preservation

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The National Hellenic Society Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 44 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
9/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ORTHODOX METROPOLIS OFCHICAGO: $265,098 · OtherGREEK ORTHODOX METROPOLIS OFCHICAGOGreek Met - Lighthouse: $233,281 · OtherGreek Met - LighthouseGREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION AND CARE CENTRE: $130,994 · OtherGREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION AND CARE CENTREST JOHN THE BAPTIST GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $100,842 · OtherAnnunciation - Kankakee: $78,145 · Other+25 more: $525,519 · Other+25 morePanhellenic Scholarship Foundation: $130,803 · EducationPanhellenic S…CROSSROAD INSTITUTE INC: $117,301 · EducationCROSSROAD INS…Hellenic American Academy Foundation: $61,211 · EducationHellenic Amer…PLATO ACADEMY INCORPORATED: $21,564 · EducationPLATO ACADEMY…National Hellenic Museum: $165,255 · Arts & CultureNational …ASIA MINOR AND PONTOS HELLENIC RESEARCH CENTER INC: $67,700 · Arts & CultureASIA MINO…THE NATIONAL HELLENIC SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureORDER OF AHEPA AHEPA FOUNDATION INC: $48,075 · Membership BenefitHellenic 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 & Shelter
Other$2,069,467Education$330,879Arts & Culture$242,955Membership Benefit$48,075Crime & Legal$35,500Health$33,940Housing & Shelter$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetORTHODOX VOCATION AND MINISTRY FOUNDATION: $322,043 over 4y, 80% of budgetNational Hellenic Museum: $165,255 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetGREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION AND CARE CENTRE: $130,994 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPanhellenic Scholarship Foundation: $130,803 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetCROSSROAD INSTITUTE INC: $117,301 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetASIA MINOR AND PONTOS HELLENIC RESEARCH CENTER INC: $67,700 over 3y, 36% of budgetHellenic American Academy Foundation: $61,211 over 3y, 1.4% of budget13TH DISTRICT ORDER OF AHEPA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC CO JOHN P VRANAS: $53,500 over 5y, 28% of budgetORDER OF AHEPA AHEPA FOUNDATION INC: $48,075 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetOrthodox Christian Laity: $37,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetHellenic Legal Assistance Services co Hellenic Foundation: $35,500 over 3y, 77% of budgetHEARTLAND HOUSING INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThomas Anthony Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc: $25,500 over 2y, 34% of budgetTHESSALONICA AGRICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE (THE AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL): $25,269 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetRandom Acts of Flowers: $13,940 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetORTHODOX CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: $11,100 over 1y, 0.9% 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 ORTHODOX VOCATION AND MINISTRY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds National Hellenic Museum ↗
  • Who funds GREEK AMERICAN REHABILITATION AND CARE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds Panhellenic Scholarship Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROAD INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds ASIA MINOR AND PONTOS HELLENIC RESEARCH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Hellenic American Academy Foundation ↗
  • Who funds 13TH DISTRICT ORDER OF AHEPA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC CO JOHN P VRANAS ↗
  • Who funds ORDER OF AHEPA AHEPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Orthodox Christian Laity ↗
  • Who funds Hellenic Legal Assistance Services co Hellenic Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds Thomas Anthony Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THESSALONICA AGRICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE (THE AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL) ↗
  • Who funds PLATO ACADEMY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds TREATMENT ALTERNATIVES FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL HELLENIC INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Random Acts of Flowers ↗
  • Who funds Orthodox Christian Association of Medicine Psycholagy and Religion I ↗
  • Who funds ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL HELLENIC SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Life Organization Inc ↗

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.

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

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 Hellenic Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hellenic Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 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 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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