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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
42
Organizations funded FY2021
57%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
29 to 42
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
3
Total assets, FY2021
$7.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 57% of the organizations Thomas Anthony Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202142$198k57%
FY202029$215kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 36 grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($153k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thomas Anthony Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritans Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPine Street Inn Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Recovery Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetRar-Ma Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHospitality Homes Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSteps to Success Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCommunity Servings Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLeap Self-Defense Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMerrimack Valley Food Bank Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJeremiah's Inn Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCradles to Crayons Inc: $10,000 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 budgetAction for Boston Community Development Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeverly Bootstraps Community Services I: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited South End Settlements: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDove Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReach Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZumix Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCole Resource Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetHorizons for Homeless Children: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEvkids Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFound in Translation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLive and Let Live Farm Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCamp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpringwell Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wish Project: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 36.

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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.

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

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.

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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.

About Thomas Anthony Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Thomas Anthony Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Thomas Anthony Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc reported 42 grants totaling $197,500 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Thomas Anthony Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (68%), Health (13%), Human Services (6%).
Who are Thomas Anthony Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: Children's Hospital Corporation ($15k), Samaritans Inc ($10k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc ($10k).
Does Thomas Anthony Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Thomas Anthony Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Thomas Anthony Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Agnes M Lindsay Trust, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).
Where is Thomas Anthony Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Thomas Anthony Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc is based in MA.

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 53 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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