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Paulson Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$413MArts & Culture$21MPhilanthropy$12MRecreation & Sports$11MInternational$5.8MSocial Science$4.5MReligion$4.4MCivil Rights$3.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $474k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+5 grants · $4.2M
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Manhattan Institute$2,000,000
MILKEN CENTER FOR ADVANCING THE AMERICAN DREAM$750,000
Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach$700,000
The UJA Federation$500,000
Success Academy Charter Schools$250,000
PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION- USA$242,200
HARVARD UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL$200,000
JOHN PAULSON CAMPUS for JEWISH LIFE$185,000
Prostate Cancer Foundation$150,000
Fund for Public Schools Inc$110,000
Tel Aviv Museum of Art American Friends$109,828
Gabrielle's Angel Foundation$100,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$100,000
MUSEO DE ARTE DE PONCE$100,000
Hope for Depression Research Foundation$70,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Brookdale Associate Compassion Fund: $10k → 4%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE INC: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 85% of Paulson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 32% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 30% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Paulson Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.6% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$318M · 62 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

62 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
68

Total granted

$318M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+12%

Still filing today

74%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $710k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthInternationalPublic BenefitOther

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

  • NY
    New York University
    5× · 2017–2022 · $78M · revenue +76%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +76%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $8.1M · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • TA
    TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART'S AMERICAN FRIENDS
    one grant, 2023 · $5.0M
  • JI
    J&J Independent Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $3.7M · 100% of their budget
  • DE
    DEFENDING EDUCATION
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +24%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
7
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

8
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
9
United States Naval Institute

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.

10
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is J&J Independent Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsCancer Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity Arts CentersPublic Library OperationsLocal History MuseumsSchool District FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Dance Arts OrganizationsIndependent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr14%25%35–55yr14%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr19%1%20–35yr14%36%35–55yr14%57%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/103
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,255

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

99 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 99 of the 147 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/99
Grantees still filing
58/99
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College — $151,000,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeNew York University — $77,650,000 · EducationNew York University+15 more — $6,822,900 · EducationPresident & Fellows of Harvard College RSO Accoun — $165,500,000 · OtherPresident & Fellows of Harvard College RSO A…+87 more — $21,108,140 · Other+87 moreTEL AVIV MUSEUM'S AMERICAN FRIENDS INC — $10,000,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $8,089,094 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $1,345,000 · Philanthropy+6 more — $1,282,199 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $10,510,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $5,366,850 · International+4 more — $259,000 · InternationalCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $10,618,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more — $95,000 · Recreation & SportsMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $6,550,000 · Public Benefit+3 more — $125,000 · Public BenefitThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc — $1,100,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC — $1,029,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $469,920 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $378,459 · Arts & CultureLANG LANG INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FOUNDATION INC — $256,034 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC — $181,500 · Arts & Culture+13 more — $477,500 · Arts & Culture
Education$235,472,900Other$186,608,140Philanthropy$20,716,293International$16,135,850Recreation & Sports$10,713,000Public Benefit$6,675,000Arts & Culture$4,092,413

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $151,000,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetNew York University — $77,650,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $10,618,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $10,510,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetTEL AVIV MUSEUM'S AMERICAN FRIENDS INC — $10,000,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $8,089,094 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $6,550,000 over 8y, 9.9% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $5,366,850 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $5,360,000 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetJ&J Independent Foundation — $3,700,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $1,345,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc — $1,100,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC — $1,029,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $890,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetPRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA — $604,200 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $518,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetGABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC — $504,999 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetHorace Mann School — $501,900 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDEFENDING EDUCATION — $500,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $469,920 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $390,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $378,459 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $350,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $300,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC — $269,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLANG LANG INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FOUNDATION INC — $256,034 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN JEWISH EDUCATION — $186,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC — $181,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLAKE AGAWAM CONSERVANCY INC — $156,390 over 4y, 22% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Excellence in Education — $150,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetThe Frick Collection — $136,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER — $107,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLYING GOOD INC — $100,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSAVE VENICE INC — $94,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $93,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC — $75,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBENEFACTORS OF ECUADOR INC — $57,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetGlades Academy Foundation Inc — $55,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 President and Fellows of Harvard College
  • Who funds New York University
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds TEL AVIV MUSEUM'S AMERICAN FRIENDS INC
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC
  • Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC
  • Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC
  • Who funds J&J Independent Foundation
  • Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc
  • Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC
  • Who funds PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA
  • Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds GABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC
  • Who funds Horace Mann School
  • Who funds DEFENDING EDUCATION
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC
  • Who funds HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds GREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC
  • Who funds LANG LANG INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
  • Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC
  • Who funds CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN JEWISH EDUCATION
  • Who funds MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY22.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Earle I Mack Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Audrey and Martin Gruss Foundation · Samuel J & Ethel Lefrak Charitable Trust · Arnhold Foundation Inc

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 Paulson Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 147 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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