Kentucky · Private foundation
Pula Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $150k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $140,154
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 11
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Pula Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $150k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $137k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $15k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $10k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $5k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youth & Opportunity United Inc | $3,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Books and Breakfast | $3,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Equity & Empowerment for Evanston Families | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Benedictine Mission House | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Young Black and Lit | $800 | 2 | 0% |
| Opencollective Foundation | $658 | 1 | 0% |
| Girls Play Sports Inc Nfp | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Tufil Nfp | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Project Friendship Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($303k), not named here.
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: Evanston Community Foundation · Francis Beidler Foundation · Northwestern University · The Chicago Community Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Pula Foundation Inc
- How much does Pula Foundation Inc give?
- Pula Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $149,904 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Pula Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (44%), Housing & Shelter (2%), Human Services (2%).
- Who are Pula Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Youth & Opportunity United Inc ($4k), Books and Breakfast ($4k), Equity & Empowerment for Evanston Families ($2k).
- Does Pula Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pula Foundation Inc 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 Pula Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Evanston Community Foundation, Francis Beidler Foundation, Northwestern University.
- Where is Pula Foundation Inc based?
- Pula Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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