· Private foundation
Nick G Zavolas Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Saint Katherine Greek Orthodox Chur | $10,000 |
| St Katherine's Paideia Preschool | $5,000 |
| Saint George Greek Orthodox Church | $5,000 |
| KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE | $5,000 |
| Hillwood Estate Museum and Garden | $2,500 |
| Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $2,000 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | $2,000 |
| The Art League of Ocean City | $1,500 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WASHINGTON | $1,500 |
| BERLIN MARYLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,000 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospita | $500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $500 |
| AMERICAN HEART SOCIETY | $500 |
| GREEK MUSEUM OF CHICAGO | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SKSaint Katherine Greek Orthodox Chur2× · 2024–2025 · $25k
- SGSaint George Greek Orthodox Church2× · 2024–2025 · $10k
- HEHILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue -5%
Funded once
- TUThe University of Baltimore Foundatone grant, 2024 · $5k
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +5%
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 mission of leadingage is to be the trusted voice for aging. our 6,000+ members and partners include nonprofit organizations representing the entire field of aging services, 38 state associations, hundreds of businesses, consumer…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Acrp promotes excellence in clinical research. we support clinical research professionals through training and development, the exchange of ideas and expertise, and certification. we serve as the preferred source for quality tools,…
Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
Nalp's mission is to advocate for lawn and landscape industry growth and the benefits we provide to our communities. nalp works to:advocate relentlessly: advance and defend the interests of the lawn and landscape industry at all levels of…
To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 19 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 KNEAD COMMUNITY CAFE ↗
- Who funds HILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS ↗
- Who funds Art League of Ocean City Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LONGWOOD GARDENS 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nick G Zavolas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nick G Zavolas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Art League of Ocean City Inc: 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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