· Private foundation
Paul Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $8k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $180,074 |
| MARITIME MUSIC AND TRADITION SOCIET | $5,000 |
| FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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 +89% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EEESSEX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONINC2× · 2019–2022 · $25k · revenue +120%
- MMMARITIME MUSIC AND TRADITION SOCIETY CORP3× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +89%
- EFESSEX FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2019 · $8k · revenue ×28
Funded once
- LALYMAN ALLYN MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SDSARAH DOVE FINE ARTone grant, 2020 · $9k
- SMSTUDIO M LLCone grant, 2020 · $6k
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.
Provide a center for education, preservation, and study of traditional essex shipbuilding and the community that has supported it for over 300 years. we value the skills, creativity, learning abilities, and connectedness to their…
To maintain middlesex county's historical integrity and to educate and provide programs to the public to increase their understanding of the area's past.
Research and presserve history of Essex County VA & provide displays, presentations, publications and education to the county citizens and visitors
The connecticut river museum's mission is to deepen appreciation of the river's history and to inspire its stewardship by providing unique educational and recreational experiences to diverse audiences.
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
Exeter historical society's mission is to research and document archival work and genealogy, collection management, stewardship and preservation of acquisitions, and public education and programming.
Land conservation and management
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 27 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 ESSEX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds MARITIME MUSIC AND TRADITION SOCIETY CORP ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Explored Inc ↗
- Who funds PETTIPAUG JUNIOR SAILING ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds A LITTLE COMPASSION ↗
- Who funds IVORYTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Kitchings Family Foundation · The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation · Community Foundation of Middlesex County Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Parkinson Family Foundation Inc · Enid Storm Dwyer Foundation · The Foxboro Foundation Inc · The Joanne E Masin Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Paul Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Maritime Music and Tradition Society Corp: 5% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Community Music School Inc: 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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