· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE - CHICAGO | $2,439 |
| THE LAND INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| JUDSON CENTER | $2,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +35% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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
How this is measured
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 INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +94% · 73% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3k
- ABAFBIU - BAR ILAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
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How this is measured
64 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. 64 of the 129 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.
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- 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 ↗
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- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
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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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pappas Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pappas Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Antfarm Inc: 29% of income from government
How this is measured
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