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The John and Diane Chachas Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The John and Diane Chachas Family Foundation

$113k
Granted FY2018
12
Grants FY2018
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

94% of The John and Diane Chachas Family Foundation’s FY2019 grant dollars went to President And Fellows Of Harvard College, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year The John and Diane Chachas Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $113k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’17
9
’18
0
’19

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2019.

Education$119kScience & Tech$82kReligion$21kInternational$15kPublic Benefit$15kHealth$15kHuman Services$750
02FY2018 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k7 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOYOLA SCHOOL$25,000
GEORGE W BUSH PRESIDENTIAL CENTER$25,000
ST PAULS SCHOOL$17,500
TURNING POINT USA NFP$15,000
THE BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
MAYO CLINIC$5,000
CRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
HOLY TRINITY GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDR$4,000
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT S$2,500
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$2,500
NEW YORK CITY PARENTS IN ACTION INC$750
ST BERNARDS SCHOOL INC$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD CO: $50k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $3k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $5k → 9%HELLENIC INITIATIVE INC: $15k → 17%GEORGE W BUSH PRESIDENTIAL CENTER: $25k → 14%THE SOCIETY OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGEON: $2k → 14%ST PAULS SCHOOL: $18k → 7%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD CO: $32k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $3k → 16%HOLY TRINITY GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDR: $4k → 17%TURNING POINT USA NFP: $15k → 14%THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE: $25k → 16%HOLY TRINITY GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDR: $2k → 17%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 17%LOYOLA SCHOOL: $25k → 17%THE BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10k → 17%THE BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5k → 17%NEW YORK CITY PARENTS IN ACTION INC: $750 → 17%NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $500 → 17%CRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 17%CRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 17%ST BERNARDS SCHOOL INC: $5k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT S: $3k → 17%ST BERNARDS SCHOOL INC: $500 → 17%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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$47k · 5 repeat orgs$128k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$47k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+76%

Still filing today

40%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EducationInternationalOther
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

  • CR
    CRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +29%
  • TB
    THE BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k
  • HT
    HOLY TRINITY GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDR
    2× · 2018–2019 · $6k

Funded once

  • TA
    THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +122%
  • HI
    HELLENIC INITIATIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +41%
  • TS
    THE SOCIETY OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGEON
    one grant, 2017 · $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.

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
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
12
The York School

York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cristo Rey New York High School; the most unlike its peers is New York City Parents in Action Inc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College: $81,566 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATIONST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $17,500 · EducationST PAUL'S SCHOOLCRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationCRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOLST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC: $5,500 · Education+3 more: $8,000 · EducationLOYOLA SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherLOYOLA SCHOOLTURNING POINT USA INC: $15,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCTHE BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherTHE BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHHOLY TRINITY GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDR: $6,000 · OtherHOLY TRINITY GREEK ORTHODOX C…MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $5,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITA…+2 more: $2,750 · OtherTHE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE: $25,000 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN COLL…HELLENIC INITIATIVE INC: $15,000 · InternationalHELLENIC INITIATI…MAYO CLINIC: $5,000 · Health
Education$152,566Other$68,750International$40,000Health$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $81,566 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELLENIC INITIATIVE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York City Parents In Action Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY11.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 The John and Diane Chachas Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John and Diane Chachas Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • The American College of Greece: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–20%
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.

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 18 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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