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Paula S Henson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$103k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$51,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 6
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Paula S Henson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$103k14%
FY20246$83k0%
FY20236$84k0%
FY20226$96k17%
FY20215$77k0%
FY20206$67kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$273kReligion$139kFood & Nutrition$75kHealth$19kRecreation & Sports$3kArts & Culture$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($153k), 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Paula S Henson Foundation

How much does Paula S Henson Foundation give?
Paula S Henson Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $102,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Paula S Henson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (54%), Religion (27%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
Who are Paula S Henson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Luke 92 Ministries Inc ($273k), Loaves & Fishes Chilhowie Area Food Pantry Inc ($60k), Siloam Health ($19k).
Does Paula S Henson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Paula S Henson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Paula S Henson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Paula S Henson Foundation based?
Paula S Henson Foundation is based in FL.

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 8 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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