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Thomas Anthony Pappas Charitable 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.

$198k
Granted FY2021
42
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$826kHealth$153kHuman Services$68kEducation$48kHousing & Shelter$35kYouth Development$30kFood & Nutrition$20kEnvironment$5kOther$0
02FY2021 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k41 grants · $183k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cape Cod Hospital Foundation$15,000
Nativity Preparatory School$7,500
Children's Room$5,000
Camp Sunshine$5,000
Pine Street Inn$5,000
Live and Let Live Farm$5,000
Found in Translation$5,000
Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center$5,000
Raising A Reader$5,000
EV Kids$5,000
Women's Lunch Place$5,000
Boys & Girls Clubs Metrowest$5,000
DOVE$5,000
Cape Arts & Ent dba Cape Symphony$5,000
Jeremiah's Inn$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center: $5k → 10%Jeremiah's Inn: $5k → 11%Maine Recovery Fund: $10k → 7%Jeremiah's Inn: $5k → 11%Cradles to Crayons: $5k → 8%Cradles to Crayons: $5k → 8%Pine Street Inn: $5k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $5k → 16%United South End Settlements: $5k → 16%Families for Depression Awareness: $5k → 8%Families for Depression Awareness: $5k → 8%ABCD: $5k → 16%Springwell: $5k → 8%Community Servings: $5k → 16%Community Servings: $5k → 16%Children's Room: $5k → 8%Horizons for Homeless Children: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$223k · 18 repeat orgs$190k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
11

Total granted

$223k
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+65%

Still filing today

89%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +55%
  • WL
    WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +141%
  • JI
    JEREMIAH'S INN INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • CC
    Cape Cod Hospital
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • UR
    United Recovery Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +17%
  • SI
    SPRINGWELL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +140%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Brien Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…

Health
2
Lifestream Inc

Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.

Health
3
Boston Community Pediatrics Inc

Boston community pediatrics (bcp) provides ambulatory pediatric and related health care services to the residents of boston, massachusetts, and surrounding communities. bcp is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses…

Health
4
Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center

The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…

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5
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc

The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.

Human Services
6
Project Hope Boston Inc

Project hope is a multi service agency that moves families up and out of poverty.project hope works in partnership with women and families in the dorchester and roxbury neighborhoods of boston on their journeys up and out of poverty. we do…

Human Services
7
Brockton Area Arc Inc

Brockton area arc inc will work in partnership with and for the community to provide advocacy, information and direct services that offer new opportunities and choice for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and…

Human Services
8
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
9
Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc

Bridge over troubled waters provides effective and innovative services to homeless, at-risk, and runaway youth, helps youth avoid a lifetime of dependency on social services, guides youth towards self-sufficiency, and enables youth to…

Health
10
United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc

To advance an economically just region where prosperity is shared across race and ethnicity.

Philanthropy
11
Bay State Community Services Inc

We support individuals, families, and the community with our continuum of care services with integrated, culturally competent behaviourial health, substance use recovery, and rehabilitative justice services.

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12
Viability Inc

Viability's mission is to build a world in which individuals with disabilities and other disadvantages realize acceptance, inclusion, and access.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United South End Settlements and the most unlike its peers is Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr19%39%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr14%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr19%38%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr14%19%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
10%
2,239/21,417

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.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 53 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
33/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Mass General Hospital — $30,000 · OtherMass General HospitalNewton Wellesley Hospital — $27,500 · OtherNewton Wellesley HospitalCape Cod Hospital — $25,000 · OtherCape Cod HospitalCape Cod Hospital Foundation — $15,000 · OtherCape Cod Hospital FoundationWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC — $10,000 · OtherNativity Preparatory School — $7,500 · OtherHospitality Homes Inc — $10,000 · OtherMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC — $10,000 · Other+18 more — $75,500 · Other+18 moreFamilies for Depression Awareness Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesFamilies for Depression …JEREMIAH'S INN INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesJEREMIAH'S INN INCCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INCUnited Recovery Fund — $10,000 · Human ServicesUnited Recovery FundCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INCPINE STREET INN INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INCSPRINGWELL INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGWELL INCHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $5,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CH…ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUN…The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children — $5,000 · Human ServicesThe Childrens Room Cente…JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesJEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CEN…UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS — $5,000 · Human ServicesUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEM…Children's Hospital Corporation — $15,000 · HealthChildren's…SAMARITANS INC — $10,000 · HealthSAMARITANS…REACH INC — $5,000 · HealthREACH INCCOLE RESOURCE CENTER INC — $5,000 · HealthCOLE RESOU…+2 more — $2,000 · Health+2 moreRAR-MA INC — $10,000 · EducationSTEPS TO SUCCESS INC — $10,000 · EducationFound in Translation Inc — $5,000 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureZUMIX INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureLEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC — $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$210,500Human Services$90,000Health$37,000Education$25,000Youth Development$20,000Arts & Culture$15,000Recreation & Sports$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFamilies for Depression Awareness Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEREMIAH'S INN INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRAR-MA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHospitality Homes Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSAMARITANS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Recovery Fund — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPS TO SUCCESS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPRINGWELL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFound in Translation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREACH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLE RESOURCE CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetEVKIDS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDOVE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZUMIX INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WISH PROJECT — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Agnes M Lindsay TrustCummings Foundation G…Boston Foundation IncRockland Trust Charit…The Cabot Family Char…The Hamilton Company …Rockland Trust - Blue…Td Charitable Foundat…George H & Jane a Mif…Bushrod H Campbell & …Berkshire Bank Founda…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA29.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · George H & Jane a Mifflin Memorial Fund · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Berkshire Bank 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 Thomas Anthony Pappas Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Reach Inc — 85% of income from government
  • Springwell Inc — 68% of income from government
  • Dove Inc — 60% of income from government
  • Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Families for Depression Awareness Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Steps to Success Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Zumix Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Evkids Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Jeremiah's Inn Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to Thomas Anthony Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Thomas Anthony Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $316k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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