· Private foundation
The Vincent J and Diane R Pappas Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ONE NATION WALKING TOGETHER | $25,000 |
| FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GARDEN OF HEALTH | $15,000 |
| ALS HOPE FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| MATER DEI CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $10,000 |
| LEGACY OF LIFE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| PRESENTATION OF OUR LORD UKRANIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ST ANNE'S UKRANIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| NEVER ALONE WIDOWS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $5,000 |
| ROCK MINISTRIES OF PHILADELPHIA | $5,000 |
| ST JOHNS HOSPICE | $5,000 |
| MANNA ON MAIN STREET | $5,000 |
| AALIVE | $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 (FY17–25, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 12% 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 +45% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 5 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- GOGarden of Health Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $68k · revenue +364%
- AHALS Hope Foundation5× · 2019–2025 · $61k · revenue +209%
- FPFOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +413%
Funded once
- SSST STANISLAUS CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $6k
- LCLYCOMING COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -1%
- PRPREGNANCY RESOURCE CLINICone grant, 2021 · $5k
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 children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Defense Fund and the most unlike its peers is The Ark Foundation. 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 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 89 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 Garden of Health Inc ↗
- Who funds ALS Hope Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANNA ON MAIN STREET ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ONE NATION WALKING TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds Saint John's Hospice ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIAN CREEK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds DRUEDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHOSEN 300 MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MAYAS HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEDWIG HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds PENN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WATERORG ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Rock Minstries of Philadelphia Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGACY OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUST ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds KELLY ANNE DOLAN MEMORIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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: The Philadelphia Foundation · Eden Bridge Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vna Foundation of Greater North Penn · Genuardi Family Foundation · Phillies Charities Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Montgomery County Foundation Inc · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Aetna 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 Vincent J and Diane R Pappas Family Foundation 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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