New York · Private foundation
Paulsen Family 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.
- $226k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2024
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 47
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 34% of the organizations Paulsen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 30 | $226k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $435k | 34% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $218k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $324k | 54% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $147k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $210k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $141k | 15% |
| FY2017 | 31 | $146k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asheville School Inc | $192,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Museum of Arts and Design | $180,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Readsource Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Trust for Public Land | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Asheville on Bikes Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Outdoor Afro | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
| SheJumps | $35,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Live-Thrive Inc | $33,250 | 8 | 1% |
| Decatur Education Foundation Inc | $29,500 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 60 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($594k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Paulsen Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Patagoniaorg · Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc · Luluma Charitable Trust Xxxxx8009 · Bailey Family Foundation Inc · The Harold T Southern Family Foundation · The Frances & William H Beattie Fdn · The Wilderness Society · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund
How this is measured
About Paulsen Family Foundation
- How much does Paulsen Family Foundation give?
- Paulsen Family Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $225,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 47 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Paulsen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Education (19%), Environment (13%).
- Who are Paulsen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Asheville School Inc ($192k), Museum of Arts and Design ($180k), Readsource Inc ($150k).
- Does Paulsen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Paulsen Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Paulsen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Foundation for the Carolinas.
- Where is Paulsen Family Foundation based?
- Paulsen Family Foundation is based in NY.
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