· Private foundation
Pappas Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k43 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF METRO DETROIT | $160,000 |
| AISH HATORAH | $20,000 |
| JEWISH FERTILITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ZEKELMAN HOLOCAUST CENTER | $10,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE THE | $10,000 |
| KIDS KICKING CANCER | $5,000 |
| IDF - ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $4,100 |
| HERITAGE RETREATS | $3,680 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $2,500 |
| DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE - CHICAGO | $2,439 |
| ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| METRO FOOD RESCUE | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 13 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HMHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +53%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +211%
KIDS KICKING CANCER INC3× · 2020–2022 · $22k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- HPHASC PA INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -15% · 73% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3k
- ABAFBIU - BAR ILAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…
The jewish fertility foundation (jff) engages hopeful parents by providing financial assistance, emotional support, and infertility education to those struggling to build their families.
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors
To help build a more just society by creating model programs for disadvantaged populations. The activities focus primarily on helping Israel overcome the challenges facing five groups (cont. on sched O):
The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…
Since 1914, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) has acted on behalf of North America's Jewish communities and others to fulfill the principle that "kol Yisrael arevim zeh l'zeh" - all Jews are responsible for one…
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…
Offering jewish adults a personal connection to judaism,fostering a sense of belonging to the greater jewishcommunity, and building bridges between jews of allbackgrounds. to date, over 74,000 men and women from 39countries have been…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service and the most unlike its peers is Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
64 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. 64 of the 129 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds KIDS KICKING CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE RETREATS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIA DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Land Institute ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
- Who funds THE BAIL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LANDMINE RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Metro Food Rescue ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HASC PA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Jewish Foundation · Shari & Alon Friendship Foundation Inc · The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · Grosfeld Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · Ahavas Avraham Foundation · Jonathan and Beth Lowe Family Foundation · Murray C and Ina C Pitt Charitable Trust · The Jerold and Ellen Minkin Family Foundation · The Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family Foundation · Mickey Shapiro Charitable Trust
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 Pappas Foundation Inc 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.
- Antfarm Inc — 29% of income from government
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.
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