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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
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2018 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
RecipientAmount
PACER$50,000
WE CAN RIDE$19,325
TRUE FRIENDS$5,000
WIGGLE YOUR TOES$50
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%TRUE FRIENDS: $5k → 5%WE CAN RIDE: $19k → 11%AUTISM SOCIETY OF MN: $30k → 14%PACER: $50k → 11%COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION: $21k → 11%WILDERNESS INQUIRY: $15k → 11%WIGGLE YOUR TOES: $50 → 11%CITY OF GOLDEN VALLEY: $35k → 11%UPSTREAM ARTS: $20k → 11%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.
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 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
Connectability of Mn Inc

Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.

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2
Adaptive Wilderness Within Reach

Adaptive Wilderness Within Reach (AWWR) is dedicated to making adaptive outdoor recreation accessible for individuals with permanent physical disabilities. With focus on outdoor activities around the Boundary Waters CanoeArea Wilderness…

Civil Rights
3
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
4
Dakotabilities Inc

Together, we create a warm and welcoming community enriching the lives of those we support.

Human Services
5
The Arc Greater Twin Cities

The arc promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, actively supporting them and their families in a lifetime of full inclusion and participation in their communities.

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6
Able Inc

A b l e , inc (a brighter living experience, inc) is organized to provide residential care for developmentally disabled minnesota residents at its residential and intermediate care facilities located in houston county, minnesota. the…

Human Services
7
Possabilities of Southern Minnesota

Training and day services for individuals with developmental disabilities.

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8
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
9
Living Well Disability Services

Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.

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10
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
11
Autism United Inc

To improve the quality of life for each child, teen and adult on the autism spectrum.

Health
12
Reach for Resources Inc

Empowering people of all abilities to reach their full potential. we provide individualized services that maximize independence, boosts community engagement and improves physical and emotional well-being.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upstream Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wiggle Your Toes Incorporated. 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

11 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF GOLDEN VALLEY: $35,000 · OtherCITY OF GOLDEN VALLEYCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION: $20,660 · OtherCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATIONWE CAN RIDE INC: $19,325 · OtherWE CAN RIDE INCPACER CENTER INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsPACER CENTER INCAUTISM SOCIETY OF MN: $30,000 · HealthAUTISM SOCIETY OF…+1 more: $50 · HealthUPSTREAM ARTS INC: $19,850 · Arts & CultureUPSTREAM AR…WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentTRUE FRIENDS: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$74,985Civil Rights$50,000Health$30,050Arts & Culture$19,850Environment$15,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPACER CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF MN: $30,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION: $20,660 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWE CAN RIDE INC: $19,325 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWIGGLE YOUR TOES INCORPORATED: $50 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 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–25%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Paul's Pals Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    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.

    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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