· Private foundation
The James & Theodore Pedas Family 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of THE JAMES & THEODORE PEDAS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $191k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $235k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THIEL COLLEGE | $500,000 |
| SAINT SOPHIA GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL | $135,200 |
| YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE INC | $36,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - WHARTON FUND | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ARMENIAN PATRIARCHATE OF JERUSALEM INC | $25,000 |
| WASHINGTON OXI DAY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SHARP HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL HELLENIC MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| VARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION INC | $10,000 |
| ORDER OF AHEPA | $6,050 |
| COLLEGE YEAR IN ATHENS INC | $5,000 |
| PAN LACONIAN FEDERATION OF UNITED STATES AND CANADA INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +36% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
80 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 62 since wound down; 20 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $666k 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
- AHAMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $197k · revenue +81%
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2023 · $95k · revenue +8%- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC5× · 2019–2023 · $60k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- SSST SOPHIA GREEK ORTHODOX CATHone grant, 2023 · $308k
- EPEcumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Foundation Incone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -77%
- GLGEORGETOWN LOMBARDI CANCER CENTREone grant, 2022 · $30k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rev Accessability Inc. 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 40 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 173 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 THIEL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Washington Oxi Day Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HELLENIC INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR CHANCE ↗
- Who funds LANDON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
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: The George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation II · Metropoulos Family Foundation · Joannides Family Foundation · The Katsaros Family Foundation · Buhler Kapsalis Family Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Louis and Eleni Nicozisis Family Foundation Inc · Spell Family Foundation co William Spell · The George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · James and Virginia Kallins Foundation · Nicholas J and Anna K Bouras Foundation Inc
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 The James & Theodore Pedas Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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