· 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 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 $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +63% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- WUWashburn Universityone grant, 2019 · $500
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 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…
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 17 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 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Paul Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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