· Private foundation
Paul and Sharon Rajewski 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,635 |
| Ascension Church | $5,581 |
| Central Sierra Environment Research | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $2,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,500 |
| Salvation Army | $2,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE INTERNATIONAL REL | $1,500 |
| LA Mission | $1,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Focus on the Family | $1,000 |
| AMYLOIDOSIS SUPPORT GROUPS | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| Long Beach Rescue Mission | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -17% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCentral Sierra Environmental Resource Center Inc6× · 2019–2025 · $21k · revenue +26%
- LBLONG BEACH RESCUE MISSION5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +98%
- ITIN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC2× · 2019–2023 · $3k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- HHARVESTORGone grant, 2023 · $2k
- CCCALVARY CHAPELone grant, 2023 · $1k
- FLFRESH LIFE CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
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.
To operate exclusively for the benefit of long beach rescue mission, a california nonprofit corporation, and other organizations that are closely related in purpose or function to long beach rescue mission and which are publicly supported…
The mission of the Ventana Wilderness Alliance is to protect, preserve, and restore the wilderness qualities and biodiversity of the public lands within California's northern Santa Lucia Mountains and Big Sur coast.
To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Wri is a non-profit organization based in san diego county dedicated to the preservation of wildlife through research, education, advocacy, cooperative work with governmental agencies, and land trust management
The institute is dedicated to scientific research, the results of which are used to promote public awareness and education in the areas of conservation biology and ecology,including the wise use of natural resources.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds South Bay Wildlife Rehab and Educ ↗
- Who funds Amyloidosis Support Groups Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ACCESS FUND ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Paul and Sharon Rajewski Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul and Sharon Rajewski Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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