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Paul's Pals Inc

Dedication to improving the lives of children and adults with disabilities, their parents, families and caregivers.

$74k
Granted FY2018
4
Grants FY2018
4
Organizations funded FY2018
100%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$19,325
Largest grant, FY2018
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 5
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Total assets, FY2018
$35k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 100% of the organizations Paul's Pals Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20184$74k100%
FY20175$121kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Health$100kRecreation & Sports$95k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pacer Center Inc$50,00011%
Autism Society of Mn$30,00012%
Courage Kenny Foundation$20,66020%
Upstream Arts Inc$19,8501n/a
We Can Ride Inc$19,32524%
Wilderness Inquiry Inc$15,00010%
True Friends$5,00010%
Wiggle Your Toes Incorporated$5010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($35k), not named here.

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.

Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL16× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Paul's Pals Inc

How much does Paul's Pals Inc give?
Paul's Pals Inc reported 4 grants totaling $74,375 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Paul's Pals Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Health (51%), Recreation & Sports (49%).
Who are Paul's Pals Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Pacer Center Inc ($50k), Autism Society of Mn ($30k), Courage Kenny Foundation ($21k).
Does Paul's Pals Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Paul's Pals Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.
Where is Paul's Pals Inc based?
Paul's Pals Inc is based in MN.

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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2019) is on record and reports $74k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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