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Vranas Family Foundation Co John P Vranas at a glance

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Vranas Family Foundation Co John P Vranas

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.

$128k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$263kEducation$38kArts & Culture$35kHealth$21kInternational$21kHousing & Shelter$8kCrime & Legal$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$907k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RESURRECTION GREEK ORTH CHURCH$60,000
ASSUMPTION GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH$10,000
PAN HELLENIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
NATIONAL HELLENIC MUSEUM$8,500
STS PETER PAUL GREEK ORTHODOX CHURC$6,750
GREEK AMERICAN HEALTH SERVICES FOUN$6,500
ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN MISSION CENTER$5,000
INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES$5,000
GREEK ORTHODOX METROPOLIS OF CHICAG$5,000
ASCENSION OF OUR LORD CHURCH$2,500
ANNUNCIATION GO CHURCH$2,400
P ECONOMOS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP AHE$2,000
13TH DISTRICT AHEPA SCHOLARSHIP FUN$1,500
AHEPA 205$1,000
HELLENIC BAR ASSOCIATION$1,000
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HELLENIC COLLEGE INC: $10k → 7%RESURRECTION GREEK ORTH CHURCH: $60k → 10%IONIAN VILLAGE: $6k → 17%ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN MISSION CENTER: $5k → 6%ST IAKOVOS RETREAT CENTER: $3k → 10%GREEK ORTHODOX METROPOLIS OF CHICAG: $5k → 7%ASCENSION OF OUR LORD CHURCH: $6k → 8%ANNUNCIATION GO CHURCH: $2k → 14%ST GEORGE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $18k → 14%INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES: $6k → 11%RESURRECTION GREEK ORTH CHURCH: $60k → 10%ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN MISSION CENTER: $5k → 6%P ECONOMOS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP AHE: $2k → 7%ASCENSION OF OUR LORD CHURCH: $3k → 8%ANNUNCIATION GO CHURCH: $2k → 14%GREEK AMERICAN HEALTH SERVICES FOUN: $7k → 14%INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES: $5k → 11%ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN MISSION CENTER: $2k → 6%P ECONOMOS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP AHE: $2k → 7%GREEK AMERICAN REHAB CARE CENTER: $4k → 14%INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES: $4k → 11%P ECONOMOS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP AHE: $1k → 7%GREEK AMERICAN HEALTH SERVICES FOUN: $4k → 14%INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES: $2k → 11%P ECONOMOS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP AHE: $1k → 7%GREEK AMERICAN REHAB CARE CENTER: $3k → 14%INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES: $2k → 11%ST ATHANASIOS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $1k → 7%GREEK AMERICAN HEALTH SERVICES FOUN: $2k → 14%INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES: $1k → 11%ST ATHANASIOS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $1k → 7%GREEK AMERICAN REHAB CARE CENTER: $1k → 14%HELLENIC BAR ASSOCIATION: $2k → 7%NATIONAL HELLENIC MUSEUM: $9k → 14%NATIONAL HELLENIC MUSEUM: $9k → 14%NATIONAL HELLENIC MUSEUM: $8k → 14%NATIONAL HELLENIC MUSEUM: $5k → 14%ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HIS: $3k → 14%NATIONAL HELLENIC MUSEUM: $3k → 14%ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HIS: $3k → 14%ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HIS: $3k → 14%NATIONAL HELLENIC MUSEUM: $2k → 14%STS PETER PAUL GREEK ORTHODOX CHURC: $7k → 14%STS PETER PAUL GREEK ORTHODOX CHURC: $1k → 14%ASSUMPTION GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $10k → 14%PAN HELLENIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%ST HARALAMBOS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $35k → 14%ST HARALAMBOS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $30k → 14%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$330k · 17 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
9

Total granted

$330k
$40k

Still filing today

29%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalHousing & ShelterHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $21k · revenue +17%
  • GA
    GREEK AMERICAN HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue +19%
  • AC
    ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY
    3× · 2019–2021 · $8k · revenue +475%

Funded once

  • SG
    ST GEORGE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $18k
  • HC
    HELLENIC COLLEGE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
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
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 29 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
4/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RESURRECTION GREEK ORTH CHURCH: $120,000 · OtherRESURRECTION GREEK ORTH CHURCHST HARALAMBOS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $66,000 · OtherST HARALAMBOS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCHST GEORGE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $17,500 · OtherST GEORGE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCHORTHODOX CHRISTIAN MISSION CENTER INC: $13,000 · Other13TH DISTRICT AHEPA SCHOLARSHIP FUN: $12,000 · Other+19 more: $88,850 · Other+19 moreNational Hellenic Museum: $35,000 · Arts & CultureNational H…INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC: $20,500 · InternationalGREEK AMERICAN HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $11,750 · HealthALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterHELLENIC BAR ASSOCIATION: $3,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$317,350Arts & Culture$35,000International$20,500Health$11,750Housing & Shelter$7,500Crime & Legal$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Hellenic Museum: $35,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetINT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC: $20,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGREEK AMERICAN HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $11,750 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHELLENIC BAR ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 3y, 18% 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.

  • Who funds National Hellenic Museum ↗
  • Who funds INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds GREEK AMERICAN HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds HELLENIC BAR ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

The John C Kulis Char…Hellenic FoundationThe Louis and Eleni N…The Renaissance Fund …Gianaras FoundationBuhler Kapsalis Famil…Joannides Family Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
The John C Kulis Charitable FoundationFL17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The John C Kulis Charitable Foundation · Hellenic Foundation · The Louis and Eleni Nicozisis Family Foundation Inc · The Renaissance Fund NFP · Gianaras Foundation · Buhler Kapsalis Family Foundation · Joannides Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vranas Family Foundation Co John P Vranas funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vranas Family Foundation Co John P Vranas. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Vranas Family Foundation Co John P Vranas 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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