Florida · Private foundation
Paulson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $6.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2024
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 51
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.4B
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 41% of the organizations Paulson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.8M 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 | 42 | $6.3M | 36% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $16M | 41% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $27M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $20M | 21% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $3.0M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 40 | $22M | 35% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $182M | 42% |
| FY2017 | 51 | $52M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York University | $77,650,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $10,618,000 | 6 | 10% |
| American Friends of Hebrew University Inc | $10,510,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Tel Aviv Museum's American Friends Inc | $10,000,000 | 2 | 31% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $8,089,094 | 7 | 2% |
| Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc | $6,550,000 | 8 | 10% |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | $5,366,850 | 6 | 3% |
| Success Academy Charter Schools Inc | $5,360,000 | 7 | 6% |
| J&J Independent Foundation | $3,700,000 | 1 | 100% |
| Cathedral Church of St John the Divine | $2,500,500 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 101 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($176M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Paulson Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 93 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
About Paulson Family Foundation
- How much does Paulson Family Foundation give?
- Paulson Family Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $6,596,528 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Paulson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (86%), Arts & Culture (4%), Philanthropy (2%).
- Who are Paulson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: New York University ($78M), Central Park Conservancy Inc ($11M), American Friends of Hebrew University Inc ($11M).
- Does Paulson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Paulson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Paulson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Earle I Mack Foundation Inc, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Paulson Family Foundation based?
- Paulson Family Foundation is based in FL.
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