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Paul Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Arts & Culture$41kEducation$14kHuman Services$9kReligion$7kPhilanthropy$7kInternational$3kEnvironment$3kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$300
Median grant
6
States reached
$233k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIANAPOLIS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA$2,500
INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$2,500
INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$2,000
CALHOUN SCHOOL$1,000
HISPANIC RESOURCE CENTER OF LARCHMONTMAMORONECK INC$500
Individual grant recipient$500
FRIENDS OF HOLLIDAY PARK INC$500
COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY OF SLEEPY HOLLOW TARRYTOWN$500
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$500
MEDECINS SANS FRANTIERES USA INC (DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS)$350
IMMIGRANT DEFENSE PROJECT$300
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$300
MERCY CORPS$300
FURNITURE SHAREHOUSE INC$250
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$250
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HISPANIC RESOURCE CENTER OF LARCHMONTMAMORONECK INC: $500 → 9%HISPANIC RESOURCE CENTER OF LARCHMONTMAMORONECK INC: $250 → 9%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $300 → 9%UNLOCAL INC: $250 → 17%JULIAN CENTER: $200 → 16%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $150 → 17%YOUTH SHELTER PROGRAM OF WESTCHESTER: $250 → 9%YOUTH SHELTER PROGRAM OF WESTCHESTER: $250 → 9%YOUTH SHELTER PROGRAM OF WESTCHESTER: $250 → 9%YOUTH SHELTER PROGRAM OF WESTCHESTER: $250 → 9%FURNITURE SHAREHOUSE INC: $250 → 9%FURNITURE SHAREHOUSE INC: $250 → 9%FURNITURE SHAREHOUSE INC: $250 → 9%FURNITURE SHAREHOUSE INC: $250 → 9%FURNITURE SHAREHOUSE INC: $250 → 9%FURNITURE SHAREHOUSE: $100 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
CA
UT
VA
DC
LA
AL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$69k · 37 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
40

Total granted

$69k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+16%

Still filing today

65%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalEnvironmentEducationOther

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

  • Indiana University Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +162%
  • DK
    DANCE KALEIDOSCOPE INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $4k · revenue +13%
  • IS
    INDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $4k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +237%
  • KU
    KRZYSZTOF URBANSKI ARTISTIC FUND - ISO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • EM
    EITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +16%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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3
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.

Health
4
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
5
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
6
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
7
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
8
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
9
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
10
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
11
Cicp Foundation Inc

Cicp foundation, inc. (the foundation) operates exclusively for the benefit of and carries out the mission of central indiana corporate partnership, inc. (cicp) by engaging in and supporting activities in furtherance of purposes that are…

Community Improvement
12
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is My Sisters Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr14%15%20–35yr13%48%35–55yr23%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%5%10–20yr14%10%20–35yr13%51%35–55yr23%33%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/63
the rest of the field
10%
4,324/41,932

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 88 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
39/60
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $10,750 · OtherINDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAUNITED WAY — $5,000 · OtherUNITED WAYINDIANAPOLIS HEBREW CONGREGATION INC — $5,000 · OtherINDIANAPOLIS HEBREW CONGREGATION INCKRZYSZTOF URBANSKI ARTISTIC FUND - ISO FOUNDATION — $2,500 · OtherCommunity Food Pantry of Sleepy Hollow Tarrytown — $1,750 · Other+45 more — $23,250 · Other+45 moreThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc — $5,000 · Arts & CultureThe Children's Museum of Ind…DANCE KALEIDOSCOPE INC — $4,350 · Arts & CultureDANCE KALEIDOSCOPE INCINDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 · Arts & CultureINDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDAT…INDIANAPOLIS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureINDIANAPOLIS CHAMBER ORCHEST…PHOENIX THEATRE INC — $2,000 · Arts & CulturePHOENIX THEATRE INCINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $2,000 · Arts & CultureINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETYEITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureEITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN…Indianapolis Opera Company — $1,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $1,600 · Arts & Culture+4 moreIndiana University Foundation — $8,000 · EducationIndiana Unive…THE CALHOUN SCHOOL INC — $2,600 · EducationTHE CALHOUN S…INDIANAPOLIS - MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $450 · Education+1 more — $250 · EducationFURNITURE SHAREHOUSE INC — $1,350 · Human ServicesYOUTH SHELTER PROGRAM OF WESTCHESTER INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesHISPANIC RESOURCE CENTER OF LARCHMONT/MAMARONECK INC — $750 · Human ServicesPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC — $300 · Human ServicesUNLOCAL INC — $250 · Human ServicesTHE JULIAN CENTER INC — $200 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC — $150 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR FOUNDATION INC — $1,300 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEER SERVICE BUREAU OF WESTCHESTER INC — $650 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $550 · PhilanthropyIndianapolis Hebrew Congregation Foundation Inc — $350 · PhilanthropyACTBLUE CHARITIES INC — $200 · Philanthropy+1 more — $100 · PhilanthropyMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,400 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $550 · InternationalMercy Corps — $300 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND — $250 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $200 · InternationalHOLLIDAY PARK FOUNDATION INC — $1,350 · EnvironmentHONOR THE EARTH — $300 · EnvironmentUtah Dine Bikeyah — $200 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE — $200 · Environment
Other$48,250Arts & Culture$23,950Education$11,300Human Services$4,000Philanthropy$3,150International$2,700Environment$2,050

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIndiana University Foundation — $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANCE KALEIDOSCOPE INC — $4,350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CALHOUN SCHOOL INC — $2,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHOENIX THEATRE INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Pantry of Sleepy Hollow Tarrytown — $1,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFURNITURE SHAREHOUSE INC — $1,350 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOLLIDAY PARK FOUNDATION INC — $1,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN DOOR FOUNDATION INC — $1,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH SHELTER PROGRAM OF WESTCHESTER INC — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIndianapolis Opera Company — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFINE ARTS SOCIETY OF INDIANAPOLIS — $800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPES DOOR INC — $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC RESOURCE CENTER OF LARCHMONT/MAMARONECK INC — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS BALLET INC — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER SERVICE BUREAU OF WESTCHESTER INC — $650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMy Sisters Place Inc — $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDayspring Center Inc — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SENTENCING PROJECT — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS - MARION COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMake the Road New York — $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS INC — $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndianapolis Hebrew Congregation Foundation Inc — $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS ART CENTER INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNLOCAL INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTBLUE CHARITIES INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Central Indiana Commu…The Indianapolis Foun…Christel DeHaan Famil…Eugene & Marilyn Glic…Lilly Endowment IncAllen Whitehill Clowe…Arts Council of India…Arthur Jordan Foundat…Maurer Family Foundat…Jewish Federation of …Lumina Foundation for…
Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial FoundationIN42.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc · Arts Council of Indianapolis Inc · Arthur Jordan Foundation · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc

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 Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 88 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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