· Private foundation
Regnar & Beverly Paulsen Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Hillsdale College | $5,000 |
| North Clackamas Christian School | $4,000 |
| St Johns Retirement Village | $2,500 |
| Arizona State University | $1,919 |
| National Child Safety Council | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of your 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- SJST JOHNS RETIREMENT VILLAGE2× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue +153%
- NCNORTH CLACKAMAS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL2× · 2024–2025 · $9k · revenue +3%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS YOLO COUNTY7× · 2017–2023 · $6k · revenue +173%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $5k
- YFYOLO FOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -25%
- YCYOLO COUNTY FARM BUREAU EDUCATION CORPone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +16%
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.
To enhance the ability of the Yolo County Library to provide library services to its widespread and diverse population by supporting reading programs and its 7 branch libraries. Our current funding priorities are 1)early literacy so…
To promote the well being of older adults in Yolo County through education, collaboration and advocacy.
Solve farm related problems
Expand public appreciation and stewardship of wetlands and wildlife in the Yolo Basin through education and innovative partnerships
Bear Yuba Land Trust exists to conserve and protect the natural, working, and cultural lands in the Bear and Yuba River watersheds and empower a healthy, resilient community through nature access and education.
YoloArts is dedicated to cultivating and enriching people's lives through the arts.
Yuba River Charter School provides K-8 public Waldorf education that nurtures the physical, emotional and intellectual capacities of the child through a developmentally appropriate curriculum. YRCS brings forth the academic, social,…
Educate on sustainably grown food
To collaborate with families in educating students with a biblical worldview as they become followers of Jesus Christ in their homes, church, and community.
To continuously improve the welfare of the animals in the community through programs that promote the adoption of homeless animals into permanent, loving homes; humane education; spay/neutering; and the trapping, altering, and releasing of…
The purpose of make it happen for yolo county is to provide support, resources, referrals and community outreach to under-served and at risk youth of yolo county.
Providing compassionate care, as partners with our community, to improve lives and inspire health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yolo Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 28 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
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 ST JOHNS RETIREMENT VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds NORTH CLACKAMAS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOLO LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS YOLO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YOLO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOLO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds YOLO COUNTY FARM BUREAU EDUCATION CORP ↗
- Who funds YOLO COUNTY CHILDRENS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Woodland Tree Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND UNITED WAY ↗
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: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Clark Pacific Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Regnar & Beverly Paulsen 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.
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.