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Ferrell-Paulin Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Ferrell-Paulin Family Foundation Inc

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.

$180k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.6MHealth$995kPhilanthropy$975kEducation$340kCivil Rights$315kCrime & Legal$300kPublic Benefit$121kHuman Services$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL INNOVATION$100,000
BABY 2 BABY$50,000
LUCKY PROJECT$25,000
ELEMENTAL MUSIC$5,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TIDES FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%CANCER FOR COLLEGE: $300k → 11%CHLOE AND MAUD FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $100k → 17%HOPEWELL FUND: $50k → 14%EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $100k → 18%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $10k → 17%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $100k → 23%CANCER FOR COLLEGE: $250k → 11%CHLOE AND MAUD FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $50k → 17%BRADY CENTER FOR GUN VIOLENCE: $50k → 14%EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $100k → 18%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $15k → 23%CANCER FOR COLLEGE: $200k → 11%AMOR POR TECO FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $100k → 18%CANCER FOR COLLEGE: $100k → 11%LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION (LAND): $100k → 14%CANCER FOR COLLEGE: $25k → 11%ACCESS BOOKS: $10k → 14%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $750k → 14%LACER: $13k → 14%THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL INNOVATION: $100k → 14%LACER: $13k → 14%MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $50k → 14%BABY 2 BABY: $50k → 14%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%FORE YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%TEACH DEMOCRACY: $25k → 14%CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%LAFC FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION: $16k → 14%LAFC FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $400k → 14%THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $200k → 14%THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $200k → 14%THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $200k → 14%SAG AFTRA FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $100k → 14%THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $100k → 14%THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $100k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 59% of Ferrell-Paulin Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 39%.

Ferrell-Paulin Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 13 repeat orgs$548k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
9

Total granted

$3.1M
$398k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
0%

Still filing today

69%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthCivil RightsRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • MA
    MUSEUM ASSOCIATES
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +89%
  • CF
    CANCER FOR COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $885k · revenue +411% · 30% of their budget
  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    3× · 2018–2024 · $300k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -51%
  • SA
    SCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -64%
  • BC
    BRADY CENTER FOR GUN VIOLENCE
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture
2
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
3
Los Angeles City College Foundation

We are committed to breaking the cycle of poverty and creating programs that drive change. by addressing students' basic needs, including food, housing, utilities, transportation, and healthcare, we enable low-income students to enroll,…

Education
4
California State University Los Angeles Foundation

To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…

Education
5
Los Angeles Mission College Foundation

The specific purpose for which the los angeles mission college foundation has been established is to advance the college's educational and cultural goals.

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6
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
7
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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8
The Library Foundation of Los Angeles

To fiscally support the los angeles public library.

Education
9
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Inc

Lace both champions and challenges the art of our time by fostering artists who innovate, explore, and risk. we move within and beyond our four walls to provide opportunities for diverse publics to engage deeply with contemporary art. in…

Arts & Culture
10
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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11
Occidental College

See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…

Education
12
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation

The charitable arm of the tv academy, the academy of television arts & sciences foundation, is dedicated to preserving television while educating and inspiring future leaders.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Access Books. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 28 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
13/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $1,300,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATESLOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISIONSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND: $100,000 · Arts & CultureSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATI…Center for Cultural Innovation: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCenter for Cultural Innovation+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $750,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY F…TIDES FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $50,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND: $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCANCER FOR COLLEGE: $885,000 · HealthCANCER FOR COLLEGE+1 more: $10,000 · HealthTeach Democracy: $121,000 · OtherTeach Democr…SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $115,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POV…LAFC FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherLAFC FOUNDAT…BRADY CENTER FOR GUN VIOLENCE: $50,000 · OtherBRADY CENTER…BABY2BABY: $50,000 · OtherBABY2BABYCHLOE AND MAUD FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherCHLOE AND MA…LACER: $25,000 · OtherLucky Project: $50,000 · OtherLucky Projec…THE AMANDA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $300,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUST…NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $150,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGA…UCLA FOUNDATION: $300,000 · EducationACCESS BOOKS: $30,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationFORE YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsFC ENGLAND: $2,595 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$1,610,000Philanthropy$975,000Health$895,000Other$556,000Civil Rights$450,000Education$340,000Recreation & Sports$52,595

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 budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $1,300,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCANCER FOR COLLEGE: $885,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $750,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTeach Democracy: $121,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES NOMADIC DIVISION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Cultural Innovation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORE YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLucky Project: $50,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS BOOKS: $30,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetAMOR POR TECO FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetTHE AMANDA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELEMENTAL MUSIC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNew York University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFC ENGLAND: $2,595 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

California Community …The J Paul Getty TrustMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA17.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Ferrell-Paulin Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ferrell-Paulin Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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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    How do I get to Ferrell-Paulin Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Ferrell-Paulin Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 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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