· Private foundation
Paul Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| McCarthys Wildlife Sanctuary | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Palm Beach Co Fishing Foundation | $2,000 |
| Armed Forces Shootout | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Salvation Army | $100 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MWMcCarthys Wildlife Sanctuary Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $88k · revenue -8%
- WUWASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $46k · revenue +208%
- PBPalm Beach Co Fishing Foundation2× · 2024–2025 · $5k
Funded once
TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +30%- KSKAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +182%
- THTOPEKA HIGH SCHOOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
KU Endowment partners with donors in providing philanthropic support to build a greater University of Kansas.
The mission of ksurf is to serve ksu as a cooperative organization in order to promote research and the development of intellectual property for the university.
To strengthen the university and communities that have touched the lives of wu alumni and friends, the mission of the washburn university charitable gift fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable…
The mission of the kansas state university foundation is to secure and prudently manage private gifts in support of kansas state university and foster a culture that unites philanthropic desires with university priorities.
Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance iowa state university's land grant ideals.
The cgsc foundation supports the united states army command and general staff college in educating leaders for the 21st century in the following six mission areas: enrich the college's academic environment; foster a strong relationship…
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kappa Sigma Endowment Fund and the most unlike its peers is Armed Forces Shootout Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 17 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds McCarthys Wildlife Sanctuary Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds ARMED FORCES SHOOTOUT CORP ↗
- Who funds Kansas State Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds TOPEKA HIGH SCHOOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Paul Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
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.