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Paulin Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TUCK SCHOOL OF BUSINESS DARTMOUTH | $17,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NW COLORADO | $10,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $5,000 |
| HOMECOMING 250 | $5,000 |
| COLGATE | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| ZITA'S HEALTHY BEGINNINGS | $2,000 |
| FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| THINKWELL MAKERSPACE INNOVATIONS | $2,000 |
| NEW YORK POLICE & FIRE WIDOWS & CHI | $1,000 |
| SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND | $1,000 |
| LOS OLIVOS SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FOCUS POINTS FAMILY CENTER | $750 |
| HOPE & HELP CENTER | $500 |
| I3 ACADEMY | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +84% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FVFOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO4× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +93%
- CUCOLGATE UNIVERSITY4× · 2019–2022 · $13k · revenue +44%
- MIMERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER2× · 2020–2021 · $4k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- CFCOMPANIES FOR CAUSES - TACTIVATEone grant, 2022 · $5k
- DCDECATUR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +1%
- TTTHE TONY ROBBINS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +10%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…
Journeys of discovery that spark bold solutions to global challenges.
Educate students by linking knowledge to professional practice.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turning Point Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds DECATUR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TONY ROBBINS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC ↗
- Who funds THINKWELL MAKERSPACE INNOVATIONS ↗
- Who funds SEAN RANCH LOUGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS OLIVOS SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds ART FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds CURE DUCHENNE ↗
- Who funds AIR & SPACE FORCES AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds I3 ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds LUMINOS FUND ↗
- Who funds SOUL DOG RESCUE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organization Paulin Foundation 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.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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