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Paul Joseph Foundation Inc at a glance

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Paul Joseph Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$700
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$34kRecreation & Sports$4kHealth$3kAnimals$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$685Human Services$642Food & Nutrition$500Arts & Culture$360Other$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200
Median grant
6
States reached
$18k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UW-WHITEWATER FOUNDATION$700
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$675
ST JUDE HOSPITAL$400
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$400
AMERICAN RED CROSS$200
ST ANN CENTER$200
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN AND JEWS$100
ST JOHN'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL$100
LOUIS & GLORIA FLANGER PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$50
DUCKS UNLIMITED$35
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $120) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOY'S TOWN: $20 → 12%WISCONSIN UKRANIANS: $100 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
CA
NE
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$38k · 10 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +3% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
20

Total granted

$38k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+1%

Still filing today

50%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UF
    UW-WHITEWATER FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +3%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $900 · revenue +13%
  • TT
    TEAM TONY CANCER FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $100 · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • SI
    SRQLAX INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -100%
  • VL
    VENICE LITTLE LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +66%
  • WC
    WHITEWATER COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY
    one grant, 2020 · $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.

04Its field

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.

1
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
2
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

—
3
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance

To marshal and focus the resources and relationships needed to cure fa by raising funds for research, promoting public awareness and aligning scientists, patients, clinicians, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies dedicated to…

Health
6
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
7
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
8
American Lung Association

The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.

Health
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc

To create and lead alliances and public-private partnerships that advance breakthrough biomedical discoveries and improve the quality of people's lives

Health
11
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
12
The Glaucoma Foundation Inc

The glaucoma foundation, inc. is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to eradicating glaucoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness. the strategy to achieve this goal is two-fold: raise public awareness concerning…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UW-WHITEWATER FOUNDATION INC: $33,155 · EducationUW-WHITEWATER FOUNDATION INCSRQLAX INC: $2,675 · OtherSRQLAX INCDUCKS UNLIMITED: $872 · OtherDUCKS UNLIMITEDST JUDE HOSPITAL: $800 · OtherST JUDE HOSPITALAMERICAN RED CROSS: $600 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSPHEASANTS FOREVER: $525 · OtherPHEASANTS FOREVERWHITEWATER COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $500 · OtherWHITEWATER COMMUNITY…MILTON HIGH SCHOOL: $300 · OtherST ANDREWS SCHOOL: $300 · Other+13 more: $1,407 · Other+13 moreALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $900 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $775 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $100 · HealthTEAM TONY CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $100 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $100 · Health+1 more: $10 · HealthVENICE LITTLE LEAGUE: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE LOUIS AND GLORIA FLANZER PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $150 · PhilanthropyWISCONSIN UKRAINIANS INC: $100 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $20 · Human ServicesUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $10 · Public Benefit
Education$33,155Other$7,979Health$1,985Youth Development$1,000Philanthropy$150Human Services$120Public Benefit$10

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUW-WHITEWATER FOUNDATION INC: $33,155 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSRQLAX INC: $2,675 over 1y, 13% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $775 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOUIS AND GLORIA FLANZER PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN UKRAINIANS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM TONY CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $10 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Paul Joseph Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul Joseph Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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