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Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
Our vision is to reimagine everyday giving to help charities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14,871 grants below total $708,772,905 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $797,890,089 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $89,117,184 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6624 grants · $46M
- $10k–50k6785 grants · $138M
- $50k–250k1240 grants · $123M
- $250k+222 grants · $402M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DONORS FUND INC | $103,088,384 |
| THE OJC FUND | $27,678,081 |
| PLEDGER CHARITABLE LTD | $16,923,567 |
| JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND | $15,352,632 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $12,644,721 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT AL | $11,558,426 |
| CONGREGATION TIFERES YAAKOV | $8,788,072 |
| CHEDER TORAS ZEV INC | $7,014,219 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $7,000,066 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $6,426,097 |
| THE PCRF | $6,299,563 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $6,106,818 |
| IGLESIA DE DIOS MINISTERIAL DE JESU CRISTO INTERNACIONAL | $5,741,345 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $5,533,113 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $4,944,502 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $78.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those 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 +40% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
1810 repeat relationships — 1489 still active in FY2024, 321 since wound down; 64 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20M 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
- ALAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $34M · revenue +119%
- PCPLEDGER CHARITABLE LTD4× · 2021–2024 · $25M · revenue ×291 · 40% of their budget
- PCPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND6× · 2017–2024 · $19M · revenue ×14
Funded once
- DDDPAC - DISCOVERING POTENTIAL THROUGH ARTS CREATIVITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.3M · revenue +25%
- TGTHE GAMBIAN YOUTHS ORGANIZATION INCone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -61% · 86% of their budget
- FFFallen Firefighters Relief Fundgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $741k · revenue +477%
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.
Petconnect rescue is a foster-based animal welfare organization dedicated to saving at-risk dogs and cats, providing them with high quality care, and adopting them to loving homes. we are committed to ensuring a highly positive rescue…
To prevent the euthanasia of adoptable pets and support animal welfare groups to this end.
To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals.
Animal aid of portland enhances the welfare of companion animals through individualized care and lifelong commitment, rescue and adoption, resources and education, and community partnerships.
Supporting the wellbeing of animals, our natural environment and all global citizens.
To maximize programs intended to stop killing of adoptable animals.
THE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS ACTIVELY RESCUES CATS AND DOGS, PROVIDES QUALITY CARE AND OFFERS SANCTUARY UNTIL LOVING HOMES CAN BE FOUND. ARF's work with animals, within our community and throughout the organization is guided by…
Improving the lives of animals and people through advocacy, education, and support.
To end animal suffering through direct and compassionate action, and to inspire the highest ethical standards of humanity towards animals. The Organization rescues animals who fall victim to abuse and natural disaster.
A people-centered approach to the conservation of gorillas and their habitats in Africa
Dogs playing for life is redefining the meaning and importance of quality of life for all sheltered dogs by improving their experience through playgroups and individualized training, resulting in urgent and responsible livesaving.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Maharishi International University. 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.
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 16 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
1530 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. 1530 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 DONORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE OJC FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds PLEDGER CHARITABLE LTD ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FONDACIONI FIRDEUS INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHEDER TORAS ZEV ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds TIGRAY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD'S PLAY ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
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: Marion and Richard Graham Foundation · Petfinder Foundation · The Grey Muzzle Organization · The Animal Medical Center · Healthy Paws Foundation · Friends For Pets Foundation · Orphan Kitten Club Inc · South Fork Foundation · Edith J Goode Residuary Trust Pnc Bank N A · Martha Morse Beck Von Peccoz Animal Plc · Bruce G Geary Foundation · BISSELL Pet 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 Paypal Charitable Giving Fund 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Cheder Toras Zev — 22% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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