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· Public charity
PAUL'S PALS INC
To enrich the lives of children with disabilities by finding and funding worthy capital projects that promote access to inclusion in everyday adventures.
$74k
Granted FY2018
4
Grants
1
Communities
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0162% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2018.
Civil Rights$50kHealth$30kArts & Culture$20kEnvironment$15kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$75k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
playdisabilitites
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2018 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$19,325
Median grant
1
States reached
$35k
Total assets
Largest grants
- PACER$50,000
- WE CAN RIDE$19,325
- TRUE FRIENDS$5,000
- WIGGLE YOUR TOES$50
02The need
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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.
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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 7%. 97% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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Connectability of Mn Inc
Connectability of mn, inc. empowers people with physical and invisible barries to achieve their potential.
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2
Minnesota Stroke Association
The Mission of the Minnesota Stroke Association is to raise awareness about stroke and to enhance the quality of life for all people coping with its sudden and long term effects.
Health
3
Run Minnesota
To serve the running community and support runners of all ages and abilities through education, programs, and advocacy. specifically, by developing educational resources and training programs that support and empower runners, facilitating…
Youth Development
4
Minnesota Brain Injury Alliance
The Mission of the Minnesota Brain injury Alliance is to raise awareness and enhance the quality of life for all people affected by brain injury.
Health
5
Mental Health Minnesota
Mental Health Minnesota is the voice of lived mental health expenience. We carry that declaration forward as we work to advance mental health and well-being for all, increase access to mental health treatment and services, and provide…
Health
6
Adaptive and Inclusive Movement Initiative
We enrich the lives of people in the disability community through active engagement with and access to movement and the arts.
Human Services
7
Mind Shift
Recruit, assess, train & employ individuals with autism spectrum disorder & similiar conditions.
Employment
8
Access North Center for Independent
To assist individuals with disabilities to live independently, pursue meaningful goals, and have the same opportunities and choices as all people.
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9
Service Enterprises Inc of Minnesota
Provides vocational training, job opportunities, and other services to people with disabilities
Employment
10
Down Syndrome Association of Minnesota
It is the mission of down syndrome association of minnesota to empower individuals and families, to create community and celebrate the abilities of people with down syndrome our v ision is for all people with down syndrome to achieve their…
Health
11
Advocacy and Inclusion Matter of West Central Minnesota
To advocate for full inclusion and independent living for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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12
Dakotabilities Inc
Administers programs to train, educate, rehabilitate, and provide therapy to disabled adults.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upstream Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Autism Society of Mn. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$74,985Civil Rights$50,000Health$30,050Arts & Culture$19,850Environment$15,000Recreation & Sports$5,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL19.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Bieber Family Foundation · Bame Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · The K Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good
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 organisation PAUL'S PALS 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
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WE CAN RIDE INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 411433903 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on WE CAN RIDE INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Paul's Pals Inc?
Find your warmest path to Paul's Pals Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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